Atomos Showcases Updates to Ninja Phone and Shinobi 2 at IBC 2024
An interview from the 2024 IBC Show in Amsterdam with Jeromy Young of Atomos. Atomos is a video technology innovator. When they started just over a decade ago, Atomos combined high-quality touchscreen monitors, removable storage, and Apple ProRes to dramatically improve the quality of video captured by almost any camera. For the first time, video makers could take the uncompressed output from the camera and store it in Apple’s professional, easy-to-edit format.
At IBC 2024, Atomos announced major feature updates for Ninja Phone, including 4K and 4K DCI Apple ProRes recording, monitoring, and 10-bit H.265 streaming and playback, direct export to frame.io and support for Apple’s iPad Pro series.
Ninja Phone connects professional cameras and lenses via HDMI to an iPhone 15/16 Pro or Pro Max – and now iPad Pro – and records directly to 10-bit ProRes or H.265 10-bit, all while displaying superb images on the iPhone or iPad’s outstanding OLED HDR monitor and streaming up to 4K. With an upcoming free of charge firmware update, previewed at IBC, all Ninja Phone users will be able to record and play back 4Kp 24/25/30 and 4K DCI 24/25/30.
“Now Ninja Phone can record 4K 10-bit ProRes and H.265 AND simultaneously stream content in 4K,” commented Jeromy Young, Atomos CEO. “No other product can do this. And remember, this update is free for all existing and new users.”
Ninja Phone now supports not just iPhones, but Apple’s iPad Pro. An optional extension bracket for Ninja Phone can be fitted to the 11-inch and 13-inch iPad models, transforming them into high-spec, on-camera, industry-leading P3 1600nit reference monitors.
Also announced was a major new functionality for Shinobi II, the amazingly successful Photo | Video Monitor. Users get a world’s first: on-monitor touch auto focus and focus subject tracking, in both photo and video camera modes, and it’s a free update for all existing users. The first camera models to be supported are from Sony (A7 MkIV), Canon (R6 Mark II), Panasonic (S5 II) and Fujifilm (GFX100 II). Nikon is also now supported for photo and video modes, with auto focus and focus subject tracking to follow in future updates.
“This is the start of a monitor revolution, and our engineers have been racing to support all popular Japanese camera manufacturers,” said Jeromy Young, Atomos CEO. “We now enable intuitive control on a larger monitor for all the major camera makers.”
Shinobi II is the latest addition to Atomos’ monitor line. Slimmer than its predecessor and with a brighter, 1500nit touchscreen display, it boasts the much-requested feature of control of the camera’s white balance, ISO, shutter speed and aperture over USB-C.
For more information please visit: www.Atomos.com
