Digital Cinema Society

PERG, the Production Equipment Rental Group is a trade group made up of professional camera and lighting rental companies. They have established a new effort known as "Rental Guard" to push back against the rampant equipment theft that has recently been plaguing our industry. In 2016 alone, a total of $8,757,818 ... [ Read: New Industry Effort to Combat Equipment Theft set up by PERG ]

The Fujinon Optical Systems division of Fujifilm has announced a new line of fairly high quality, but low cost zoom lenses, which have been built exclusively for E-mount cinema cameras, (such as the Sony FS-700, FS7, FS5, etc.).  It has been named the MK series, and the first lens in the line will be a MK18-55mm T2.9 ... [ Read: Fujinon Announces New Low Cost MK18-55mm T2.9 Zoom for Sony E-Mount ]

We are proud to report that three of the honorees to receive Scientific and Technical Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) are longtime supporters of the Digital Cinema Society. The awards, known as ,“Academy Plaques” or “Technical Oscars” were presented to ARRI, Panavision, and ... [ Read: DCS Sponsors: ARRI - Panavision - Sony win Academy Sci-Tech Awards ]

The American Society of Cinematographers held their 31st Annual ASC Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography on February 4th, 2017 in Hollywood.  Actor and Filmmaker Denzel Washington was given Board of Governor's Award for career achievement in a profession other than cinematography. Best Cinematography ... [ Read: Winners and Honorees of the 31st Annual ASC Awards ]

by James Mathers Cinematographer and Founder of the Digital Cinema Society (Excerpted from the January 2017 Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter) I make it my business to keep up with the tools filmmaking professionals need to create content, and with all the new technology coming our way at an ever increasing ... [ Read: CES 2017 - Fifty Years Showcasing Technology ]