Digital Cinema Society

In the run up to NAB, Blackmagic's Grant Petty held an online briefing detailing several new products and updates to DaVinci.  Known as Blackmagic Cloud, the combined hardware/software system is designed for editors, VFX artists and others to collaborate via the cloud in realtime.  Chief among the new products is Blackmagic ... [ Read: Blackmagic Announces New Cloud Collaboration Products and Upgrades in Davinci Resolve 18 ]

Canon has announced the launch of a new series of lenses for the company’s EF Cinema Lens lineup to be known as the Flex Zoom Lens series.  The first lenses in the series are the CN-E20-50mm T2.4 L F/FP wide-angle zoom lens and the CN-E45-135mm T2.4 L F/FP telephoto zoom lens.  The lenses are said to maintain ... [ Read: Canon Announces New Flex Full-Frame T2.4 Cinema Zoom Lenses ]

AJA has announced free firmware updates for many of their popular products including the Ki Pro Go and U-Tap and more.  Updates are available for select AJA openGear cards with a host of improvements designed to help production professionals better maintain the integrity of signals and manage associated metadata as ... [ Read: AJA Announces Free Firmware Updates for Many of Their Popular Products ]

In the lead up to NAB, Adobe has announced that all of Frame.io’s video collaboration tools, including Camera-2-Cloud, will now be included in Creative Cloud subscriptions. In addition to C-2-C, integrated post-production review and approval workflow features allow project stakeholders to collaborate seamlessly ... [ Read: Big New Features Added to Adobe Creative Cloud Including Full Integration of Frame.io and Camera-2-Cloud ]

Adakin Press has announced the release of The Cine Lens Manual, a definitive resource on cinema lenses. Co-authored by Jay Holben and Christopher Probst, ASC The Cine Lens Manual is a journey through the world of cinema lenses investigating every possible aspect from the formation of glass to today's top cinematographic ... [ Read: Long Awaited Cine Lens Manual by Jay Holben and Christopher Probst, ASC is now available ]

Sony has announced the first shipments of their flagship digital cinema camera, the VENICE 2.  Prior to the release, the VENICE 2 had already been used on feature films and episodic work with cinematographers Claudio Miranda, ASC, Gonzalo Amat, ASC, and Rob McLachlan, ASC, (pictured above).  It has now also been ... [ Read: Long Awaited Sony Venice 2 Released Into the Wild - Now Shipping ]

ARRI has introduced a second generation of its TRINITY and ARTEMIS camera stabilizers that were so well shown off by Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC on his academy award winning movie 1917. We are told that the new modular system has been redesigned down to the smallest detail, incorporating enhancements to camera movement, ... [ Read: ARRI Introduces New TRINITY 2 and ARTEMIS 2 camera stabilizers ]

OWC has announced the new Flex 1U4 4-Bay Thunderbolt rackmount storage and docking Solution. The Flex 1U4 is designed as a flexible storage and docking solution for any rackmount environment with the capabilities to use SATA/SAS and U.2/M.2 NVMe drives for up to 128TB of capacity and speeds up to 2750MB/s. The innovative ... [ Read: OWC Announces the new Flex 1U4 4-Bay Thunderbolt Rackmount Storage and Docking Solution ]

ZEISS has introduced their latest cine lens, the Supreme Prime 15 mm T1.8.  The new lens completes the family of popular Supreme Primes. The now 14-piece cine lens series ranges from 15 to 200 mm with a maximum aperture of T1.5 to T2.2.  The new 15 mm lens rounds out the lineup by providing an extremely wide-angle ... [ Read: ZEISS Introduces New Supreme Prime 15mm T1.8 Ultra Wide Lens ]

Now Streaming: DCS Exploration of Large Sensor Cinematography

By DCS, Mar 23, 2022

This is the full version of the Digital Cinema Society's format agnostic exploration of Large Sensor Cinematography.  We look at the benefits, aesthetic and technical differences, as well as the challenges of shooting larger format sensors as compared to S35.  It features interviews with renowned Cinematographers ... [ Read: Now Streaming: DCS Exploration of Large Sensor Cinematography ]