Tangent Devices is debuting its new Elements modular control panels for color grading software at the IBC trade show in Amsterdam.  No word yet on pricing or when they will ship, but family of modular panels will be supported by Apple Color, Assimilate Scratch and SGO Mistika, among others.  No word on Black Magic Designs' Davinci, but it would make little sense for BMD to support Avid's MC Color and Tangent's Wave but not the Element. http://www.tangentdevices.co.uk/products_element.asp  

  After all the hype and hoopla of the "DSLR revolution", someone finally came round to the obvious idea of putting a DSLR style imager into a real video camera.  And it shouldn't be too surprising that the someone should be Panasonic and Sony. For the last couple of years, a number of people have been crowing about the "amazing" image quality that DSLR video has.  Amazing.  I keep seeing that word in articles and forum posts about DSLR video.  But I am not amazed.  If anything, I am just a little bit underwhelmed. The video is a bit soft,…