Digital Cinema Society

The coverage of our annual DCS Cine Gear Expo Lens panel is available to view on-line: Focus on Cine Lenses From the Buyer's POV.  Cine Lenses have historically been a safe investment, but with sensor sizes growing, and so many new lenses coming to market, the decision making process has become far more complicated. ... [ Read: Now Streaming: DCS Cinema Lens Panel at Cine Gear Expo 2018 ]

In advance of Cine Gear Expo Zeiss has introduced a new family of high-speed lenses for Large Format Cinema production.  Known as the ZEISS Supreme Primes, the family consists of 13 lenses with fixed focal lengths between 15 and 200 millimeters. The majority of these lenses provide an extremely fast aperture of ... [ Read: Zeiss introduces Supreme Primes - 13 new High-speed, Full-frame Cinema Lenses ]

Digital Cinema Society Privacy Policy privacy policy, as of 05/23/2018 The Digital Cinema Society (DCS) is committed to protecting the privacy of its members. DCS recognizes the interest of its members in the confidentiality of their personal information. DCS only maintains personal information that is relevant ... [ Read: DCS Privacy Policy ]

by James Mathers Cinematographer and Founder of the Digital Cinema Society (Excerpted from the May 2018 Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter) As the droll comedian Steven Wright says, “You can’t have it all…where would you put it?”  Yet, we Cinematographers generally do want it all, higher resolutions, ... [ Read: Is Enough Too Much? The Ever-increasing Resolutions For Digital Cinema Production and Post ]

Jim Jannard returned to the spotlight on Saturday evening, May 19th, for an invitation-only event at RED Studios Hollywood. The purpose was to preview his latest innovation, the RED Hydrogen One Mobile Device. About the size of an Apple, Samsung, or Google handset, it is tempting to call it a mobile phone, but that ... [ Read: First Look at the RED Hydrogen One Mobile Device or "Holographic Media Machine" ]

Join Blackmagic Design on May 22nd at their Burbank, CA headquarters for an evening with DaVinci Resolve 15.   If you missed NAB, this is your chance to learn about this newest release, and see how it can directly impact your day to day workflow. Demo artists will show you the newest tools, and answer your questions ... [ Read: Catch Up On DaVinci Resolve 15 at Blackmagic Design, Burbank - May 22nd ]

Friday, June 1, 2018, 3:45pm – 5:15pm, Cine Gear Expo, Screening Room #5 (upstairs from the Sherry Lansing Theater), Paramount Studios, Hollywood The Digital Cinema Society will reprise its annual examination of the Cinema Lens market.  We'll see what's new from some of the top lens manufacturers and how they ... [ Read: DCS Event at Cine Gear Expo - "Focus on Cine Lenses from the Buyer's POV" ]

DCS is coming to San Francisco to showcase Sony’s latest digital cinema camera, the large-format VENICE. The VENICE is a Full-Frame 6K camera with over 15 stops of dynamic range, eight Built-in Optical ND filters and a five-second boot time. The VENICE supports a wide range of formats from Full-Frame to Super 35 ... [ Read: An Evening with the Sony Venice - DCS Event on May 23rd @BeyondPix San Francisco ]

ZEISS Cine Lenses has launched a new video series, “Focus on Cinematography,” with its first slate of interviews with presenting cinematographers from the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.  In this new series, a wide range of cinematographers, whose work featured at Sundance this year, sat for in-depth conversations ... [ Read: ZEISS LAUNCHES VIDEO SERIES: "FOCUS ON CINEMATOGRAPHY" ]

Join the Digital Cinema Society at Canon Burbank on the evening of Wednesday, May 16th for a chance to get up close and personal with Canon’s latest Cinema Camera, the large format C700 FF.  There will be both presentations and hands-on time with the new camera.  As a group, we will also record shots with various ... [ Read: Experience the Canon C700 FF with DCS on May 16th at Canon Burbank ]