14 DAY TRIAL // Melbourne-based manufacturer Atomos, known for its award-winning camera mounted recorders Ninja-2 and Samurai, has announced that it is running a special promotion, which can help you save up to $265 / €193 when buying a Ninja-2 or Samurai Blade recorders.
The Samurai Blade is a portable camera-mounted recorder, waveform monitor and deck for HD-SDI cameras that comes with a super-bright 5'' IPS 720p touchscreen monitor, full waveform vectorscope with zoom & RGB/luma parade displays as well as focus assist, zebra and false color monitoring.
The gadget uses standard BNC connectors and enables real-time monitoring, playback, playout and edit logging in the field.
That being said, when buying a new Samurai Blade camera-mounted recorder, you are eligible to receive $100 / €80 / £65 as cash back as well as three extra accessories for free (a carry case, an extra battery and a sunhood) valued at $165 / €135 / £105. After this discount, the price of the Samurai Blade goes down to $1295 / €995 / £849.
Moreover, the Atomos Ninja-2 camera-mounted recorder is also benefiting from a promotional price that helps you save up to $135 / €110 / £88 from which you will receive $50 / €40 / £33 cash back and the rest comes as two extra accessories (an extra battery and sunhood).
The Ninja-2 is a powerful camera-mounted recorder, monitor and deck for media professionals that works with most DSLR and HDMI cameras.
With the Ninja-2, you will be able to take advantage of the 4.3'' 800x480 touchscreen monitor to playback, playout and monitor the recorded footage in real-time.
Atomos Ninja-2 also comes with focus assist, zebra and false color monitoring as well as the possibility to record directly from the sensor to 10-bit, 4:2:2 ProRes or DNxHD.
The Atomos promotion is valid from December 3 through January 31, 2014 and requires you to register your products on the Atomos website in order to benefit from it.