Digital Cinema Society

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 ]

Per an announcement on H4Vuser.net, the official website for the RED Hydrogen mobile device, Jim Jannard is shelving the Hydrogen project.  He credits “a few health issues" for shutting down the project and for his impending retirement.  First announced in 2017, the $1,295 RED Hydrogen One was the first smartphone ... [ Read: RED cancels Hydrogen phone project as RED Digital Cinema Founder Jim Jannard retires ]

Voyage Audio Releases Spatial Mic - New for 360-Degree Sound Capture Voyage Audio has announced Spatial Mic, a professional second-order ambisonics VR microphone capable of single wire connectivity to a computer or mobile device for studio, live events, and mobile recording.  It features an 8 capsule array to Second ... [ Read: Voyage Audio Releases Spatial Mic - New for 360-Degree Sound Capture ]

by James Mathers Cinematographer and Founder of the Digital Cinema Society (Excerpted from the October 2019 Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter) James Cameron is an innovative filmmaker who has pushed the boundaries of technology in services of cinematic storytelling.  He almost single handedly resurrected ... [ Read: Can James Cameron Save It, or is 3D Finally Dead...Again? ]

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 ]

A Digital Cinema Society Member Content Contribution by FAA Certified Drone Pilot, David Tolsky When I first set out to put the Gladius Mini through its paces, I tossed it in the backyard pool just to play with the controller and get used to the joystick commands. This would be a good pre-workout for the sub and ... [ Read: An Aerial Drone Pilot Puts the Gladius Mini Underwater Drone Through Its Paces ]

Longtime DCS member Michael Cioni, a Co-Founder of forward thinking post-production facility, Light Iron, and former Director of Innovation at Panavision, has taken the position of SVP of Global Innovation at Frame.io.  Working with Emery Wells, another veteran DCS member, they are planning the next wave of film-tech ... [ Read: Cioni Lands At Frame.io ]

See the latest technology from Blackmagic Design in this coverage of a Digital Cinema Society event held October 1st, 2019 at Beyond PIX Studios in San Francisco, CA. Director and Cinematographer Benjamin Brown presents on the new Pocket Cinema Camera 6K and URSA Mini Pro G2. Paul Saccone, Senior Director of Marketing ... [ Read: Now Streaming: DCS Presents the Latest Blackmagic Cameras and Updates to DaVinci Resolve v16.1 ]