Digital Cinema Society

Like many of our favorite companies before it, Wooden Camera has now been absorbed into the Vitec Group of companies.  The family of Vitec companies who are supporters of DCS includes Litepanels, OConnor, Teradek, Sachtler, Anton Bauer, and SmallHD. Wooden Camera was founded in 2011 specializing in products for ... [ Read: Wooden Camera Joins the Vitec Group ]

DCS Member content contribution from Cinematographer, Alicia Robbins (Excerpted from the Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter, September 2016) Seeking: DP with camera package. Must own Red or Arri Alexa to be considered. Seeking: DP for low budget indie. Must know how to shoot on Arri Alexa or Red. Seeking: ... [ Read: Have We Lost Our Focus? DPs Should Be Hired For Their Talent...Not Their Camera ]

IBC 2016 was abuzz with several major Cine Lens announcements including new lenses and innovations from Angenieux, Zeiss, Cooke, Leica, and Sigma.  In the case of Angenieux it was a whole range of new zoom lenses known as the Type EZ Series.  This includes two fast and light weight zooms with Interchangeable Rear ... [ Read: Round Up of Lens Announcements at IBC: Angenieux - Zeiss - Cooke - Leica - Sigma ]

      Panasonic and Codex announced at IBC 2016 that they have once again collaborated, this time to create the VariCam Pure production system.  The "Pure" is a RAW-only modular camera solution integrating a new V-RAW recorder that is a smaller and lighter option that still takes full ... [ Read: Panasonic and Codex Announce VariCam Pure ]

Episode VI of the Digital Cinema Show is devoted to an in-depth discussion with renowned Cinematographer Steven Poster, ASC.  A past President of the ASC and current President of the International Cinematographers Guild, he has been responsible for photographing everything from Indie hits like Donnie Darko, and ... [ Read: Digital Cinema Show Episode VI - A Conversation with Steven Poster, ASC ]

We are sad to report that a longtime and very active member of both the Digital Cinema Society and the American Society of Cinematographers, Frederic Goodich, ASC has passed away.  The noted cinematographer, whose features include: G.I. Jesus, Surviving Eden, The Affair, Lay of the Land and For Love of the Game ... [ Read: DCS Mourns the Loss of Frederic Goodich, ASC ]

One of the first major announcements coming in the lead up to the IBC convention which begins next week in Amsterdam is from Canon. They have released details of their new flagship C700 Digital Cinema camera. It features a 4.5K sensor that comes in a variety of configurations including standard CMOS or global shutter ... [ Read: New Canon C700 Records 4.5K RAW @100fps w/Codex and 4K ProRes Internal ]