Digital Cinema Society

All are invited to join the Digital Cinema Society for an educational event covering the basics of motion picture location audio recording.  The event will take place on the evening of January 14th at the west coast headquarters of Lens manufacturer SIGMA in Burbank, CA.  Leading production and post sound professionals ... [ Read: DCS Presents Introduction to Cinema Audio Field Recording -- January 14 at SIGMA, Burbank ]

AdoramaTV has announced a new episodic series called Beyond the Sound that will feature nine videos released on a weekly basis covering the behind-the-scenes technical aspects of shooting a high-quality music video. Each episode is dedicated to one particular element of production, such as microphones, cameras, audio ... [ Read: AdoramaTV to Feature 9 Episode Series on Music Video Creation: Beyond the Sound ]

Gary Adcock and Tom Fletcher, (current and former Presidents of the Digital Cinema Society Midwest Chapter,) have come out with an update to their famous Camera Comparison Chart. The information has been gathered from numerous conversations with various cinematographers, colorists, colleagues and manufacturers. The ... [ Read: Tom Fletcher and Gary Adcock's New 2019 Camera Comparison Chart Now On-line ]

Premium Cine Lens manufacturer Cooke Optics has announced the opening of a service operation in Los Angeles, CA to provide full lens servicing and testing.  Heading up the facility will be new hire Michael Nadas, an Optical Engineer with over 28 years experience working with film and television production lenses. ... [ Read: Cooke Optics Opening of Los Angeles Area Service Center ]

Centered around the new Canon C500 Mark II, this Digital Cinema Society event was held on November 20, 2019 at Canon Burbank.  We explored in detail Canon’s latest Digital Cinema camera with a 5.9K Full Frame CMOS sensor, user-changeable lens mounts, electronic image stabilization, and internal cinema RAW ... [ Read: Now Streaming: DCS Presents the Canon C500 Mark II ]

Complete coverage of the annual Digital Cinema Society Post Expo is now available for viewing.  The event was held this year at Canon Burbank on Saturday, November 9th and included presentations from representatives of these companies, (listed in alphabetical order): Adobe -  Avid - Blackmagic Design - Canon ... [ Read: Now Streaming: Coverage of 2019 DCS Post Expo ]

Join DCS at Canon Burbank on Wednesday evening November 20th for a chance to experience the C500 Mark II.  Get up close and personal with Canon's new 5.9K Full Frame Digital Cinema camera with CMOS sensor, user-changeable lens mounts, electronic image stabilization, and internal cinema RAW light recording.  There ... [ Read: Explore the C500 Mk II with DCS at Canon Burbank on November 20, 2019 ]

At the CAMERIMAGE International Film Festival in Toruń, Poland, ZEISS is set to unveil their Supreme Prime Radiance lenses, a new set of seven high-end cinematography lenses based on the high-speed ZEISS Supreme Prime lens family with the benefit of the new T blue coating.  This special coating is said to offer ... [ Read: ZEISS Introduces New High-End Cinematography Optics: ZEISS Supreme Prime Radiance Lenses ]

The Digital Cinema Society will hold our annual Post Production Expo this year at Canon Burbank on Saturday, November 9th, doors open at noon with presentations from 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm. We’ll cover a wide variety of Post Production topics including: Monitoring for HDR and Wide Color Gamut -- How to take advantage ... [ Read: DCS Post Production Expo 2019 - November 9th at Canon Burbank ]

Adobe MAX, an annual gathering of over 15,000 Adobe users from around the world, started today, November 4th, at the Los Angeles Convention Center.  The company used the occasion to introduce a number of Creative Cloud innovations including the availability of Photoshop on iPad, Fresco on Windows and Adobe Aero for Immersive ... [ Read: Adobe Introduces New Creative Suite Features at Adobe MAX 2019 ]