Atomos, known for the camera-mounted recorders Ninja-2 and Samurai, and the pocket-sized Connect converters, was at InfoComm debuting its new Samurai Blade HD-SDI recorder with 1280×720 IPS ‘SuperAtom’ touchscreen. It is the first truly professional monitor that records, offering full waveform functionality, including vectorscope and RGB/luma parade displays. Last month rAVe RADIO featured Atomos on a podcast that you should listen to here when the company’s president joined Joel Rollins.

Atomos told rAVe that it’s shipped 10,000 field recorders worldwide and the Ninja-2 and Samurai recorders have broken new ground in production by combining recording, monitoring and playback all in one easy to operate, portable device. Both record uncompressed images straight from the sensor of DSLRs or video cameras, or even switcher or ISO feeds from live events, directly to inexpensive, removable 2.5″ HDDs or SSDs, in a ready-to-edit format: Apple ProRes or Avid DNxHD. Atomos recorders speed up any production workflow, improve recorded image quality and replace multiple devices for a fraction of its combined cost.

Another new addition to the Atomos recorder range, directly targeted at broadcast and ProAV markets, is the Ronin portable recorder, monitor and deck. The Ronin is a rack-mountable solution for both fixed-facility and on-location production, based on the Samurai design. Like the Samurai, it can operate on location with battery or DC power, but it has AC power built-in, standard HD/SD-SDI BNC connectors and balanced XLR inputs and outputs.

And tech geeks will love the new Atomos Connect, a portable and versatile battery-powered HDMI/HD-SDI converter, with built-in test pattern generator and audio tone, which will be joined by its fixed-facility counterpart, Connect-AC. Launched at NAB and shipping at InfoComm 2013, the stand-alone or rack-mountable Connect-AC converters are powered by a standard figure-of-8 IEC cable, and offer all the great functionality of Connect while rendering ‘wall-warts’ a thing of the past. We bought one!

Pricing is as follows:

• Ninja-2: US $695
• Samurai: US $995
• Samurai Blade: US $1,295
• Ronin: US $1,995
• Connect H2S/S2H: US $295 each
• Connect-AC H2S/S2H: US $295 each

Go here for all the company’s products.