Digital Cinema Society

In a surprising corporate reshuffling, Kees van Oostrum, the past president of the American Society of Cinematographers, (2016-2020,)  and current president of IMAGO, has been tapped to lead venerable lens manufacturer Cooke Optics. Current Chairman Les Zellan, who has been with the company since 1998, will be stepping ... [ Read: Kees van Oostrum, ASC to take the Reins at Cooke as Chairman Les Zellan Steps Down ]

The Panasonic LUMIX division has announced their first box-style Mirrorless Camera, the LUMIX DC-BGH1. Based on the Micro Four Thirds System standard, the BGH1 takes advantage of high mobility, interchangeable lenses, and technologies Panasonic has developed for their professional cinema cameras, camcorders and the ... [ Read: New LUMIX BGH1 Mirrorless Box Camera Featuring 4K 60p and 10-bit Recording ]

ARRI has announced mass production and first shipments of Orbiter, their new LED point source with a variety of optics.  Orbiter is manufactured at the ARRI Lighting factory in Stephanskirchen, Germany. This facility is located among a close network of partner companies from the region with the necessary experience ... [ Read: Orbiter, ARRI's new LED point source with a variety of optics Now Shipping ]

DCS UPDATE It's been a busy month here at DCS, and as the length of this monthly missive indicates, we have a lot of industry news and product announcements to tell you about.  It seems many products that had been in the pipeline waiting to be introduced at major trade show finally had to be announced when the events ... [ Read: Newsletter 151 - Draft - Do Not Publish ]

by James Mathers Cinematographer and Founder of the Digital Cinema Society (Excerpted from the September 2020 Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter) As the picture above suggests, it is a chaotic time for our industry. As you surely know if you follow DCS, all the major trade shows we regularly cover were either ... [ Read: A Fork in the Road or a New Paradigm: The Uncertain Future of Trade Shows ]

Riedel Communications, founded in 1987, designs, manufactures and distributes innovative real-time networks for video, audio and communications. Riedel Americas is headquartered in Valencia, California, and all products are designed and manufactured in Wuppertal, Germany. The company employs over 700 people in 20 ... [ Read: Welcome to Riedel Communications as New Friend of DCS ]

AJA has introduced BRIDGE LIVE, a new plug-and-play streaming gateway solution that makes it easy to move UltraHD or multi-channel HD baseband SDI video to/from a wide range of streaming and contribution codecs (H.265, H.264, MPEG-2, and optional JPEG 2000). Designed with the ability to support both low-latency and ... [ Read: AJA Announces BRIDGE LIVE- Multi-Channel Video Encoding, Decoding, Streaming, and Transcoding ]

OWC, a longtime trusted provider of spinning disk and solid state hard drives, has now announced a new LTO archiving system.  The Mercury Pro aims to make the process of secure longterm backup as simple as drag and drop.  Using archiving industry-standard Linear Tape-Open (LTO) tapes formatted with the Linear Tape ... [ Read: OWC Introduces Mercury Pro LTO Archiving Solution ]

It has recently been announced without much fanfare that the two titans of entertainment industry trade journalism, Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, have merged.   Although it’s being played as a joint venture, it seems that Penske Media Corp., which publishes Variety, will be in the driver's seat.  MRC, publisher ... [ Read: Industry Trade Rivals Variety and The Hollywood Reporter Set to Merge ]

Canon has introduced their first-ever RF mount Cinema EOS camera, the EOS C70 4K Digital Cinema Camera.  The compact design, weighing only 2.6 lbs., allows the camera to be easily handheld and dramatically enhances mobility while still providing the features and quality necessary for cinematic applications.  The ... [ Read: CANON INTRODUCES EOS C70 4K DIGITAL CINEMA CAMERA WITH STILL CAMERA ERGONOMICS ]