Deity's V-Link Cable Adapts XLR Phantom Power to 3.5mm Plug-in Power | No Film School

V-Link is an audio cable from Deity that adds versatility to your toolkit. If you own microphones with a 3.5mm connection, the cable allows you to plug them into mixers, recorders, or cameras with an XLR input. Better yet, V-Link converts 24V or 48V phantom power to 3V or 5V plug-in power for 3.5mm TRS connections.

The cable is super helpful when shooting with cameras that only provide XLR inputs. With V-Link, connecting a 3.5mm to the XLR input of a camera is easy, and you can still take full advantage of the camera's gain control knobs to adjust the audio.

V-Link can also be a solution for some mirrorless cameras where you generally have to go into the menu settings to adjust audio levels. Say you're using the Sony a7S III with the XLR-K3M audio adapter, you can use V-Link to adapt the microphone to one of its XLR inputs for quick level adjustments. It is worth noting the XLR-K3M does have a single 3.5mm jacks to adjust levels via a gain control knob, but if you're connecting multiple audio sources, like an on-camera mic and wireless system, V-Link adds that versatility.

Deity previously came out with the D-XLR adapter that performs the same functionality. However, with V-Link, you don't need to purchase additional cables. Plus, the 12" coiled cable and right-angle adapters make for a clean setup. If you need a longer run, you can easily add an extension. Besides Deity video microphones, V-Link can be paired with RØDE, Shure, and Sennheiser microphones as well.

The Deity V-Link is priced at $34 and is available now.

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What's the Hype With 'Interstellar' Revisiting Cinemas After a Decade in 70mm IMAX?

What's the Hype With 'Interstellar' Revisiting Cinemas After a Decade in 70mm IMAX?

Celebrate the love and hope at the center of Nolan's space epic in the format it was meant to be seen.

If we know anything about Christopher Nolan, he likes to go big. Nolan started with smaller-scale stories (as many of us do) with early noir adjacent works like Following, Memento, and Insomnia, then started going and staying big with his illusionist drama The Prestige. Since then, the scale has been various degrees of massive, with the biggest scope in his time-and-space sprawling epic, Interstellar.

While Interstellarmight not be everyone's favorite Nolan outing, there's no denying it's an impressive feat of filmmaking and his most emotional—if watching Matthew McConaughey's Cooper desperately try to reach his family through quantum space-time doesn't make you cry at least a little bit, what's going on, dude?

With Interstellar'sIMAX release, it's a great time to shed some tears in a public setting in one of the most prestigious film formats around. As we mentioned in our film gauge piece, Nolan loves shooting on film and utilizes 65mm intentionally to provoke a tone of massive scale. In that regard, Interstellar was made for 70mm IMAX. That goes without saying, dawg. That being said, other factors make Interstellar a perfect movie to revisit in theaters while you can.

Let's break down the release further below.

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