Digital Cinema Society

The Codex V-RAW Recorder for the Panasonic VariCam 35 camera is now shipping to customers worldwide. The V-RAW Recorder offers uncompressed RAW capture for the Panasonic enabling the recording of 4K RAW at up to 120fps.  The V-RAW records to the Codex Capture Drive 2.0, which has a bandwidth of 20Gb/s, and comes ... [ Read: Codex ships V-RAW Recorder for Panasonic VariCam 35 camera ]

Friends at Paramount Studios invited us to the Los Angeles premiere of Terminator Genisys at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood; and yes, Arnold is back.  The movie also stars Emilia Clarke, (Game of Thrones’ Daenerys), Jason Clarke, (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), J.K. Simmons, (Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winner ... [ Read: Arnold Is Back...Terminator Genisys Opens July 1st ]

Check out this great article published by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is derived from a May 2015 presentation to the Academy on the importance not letting technology overtake the storytelling process, but support it, and evolve with it. "We focused on the story and hiding the technology. ... [ Read: John Lasseter presents: Technology and The Evolution of Storytelling ]

A founding member and past President of the Digital Cinema Society Midwest Chapter, Tom Fletcher has left Cineverse.  As reported by the on-line trade journal Reel Chicago, Fletcher, who handled marketing as well as national sales rep, Zoe Borys were unexpectedly terminated this week at the firm's Chicago offices. In ... [ Read: Tom Fletcher Exits Cineverse ]

With a Little Help From My Friends -- The Making of Broken Links by James Mathers Cinematographer and Founder of the Digital Cinema Society (Excerpted from the Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter, June 2015) In my role covering new Cinema Technology for DCS, I am often offered gear to test and evaluate, and ... [ Read: With a Little Help From My Friends -- The Making of Broken Links ]

DCS Supporter, Manios Digital & Film has announced an agreement with cinema lens manufacturer, Veydra to become the exclusive, worldwide distributor for a new lens accessory, the Veydra 1.2x PL to PL Expander. The Expander makes it possible to use vintage zoom lenses from the Academy-format era with current generation ... [ Read: Manios Named Worldwide Distributor For New Veydra Lens Expander ]

At Cine Gear Expo 2015, the Digital Cinema Society held a session to explore Anamorphic Cinematography in an attempt to understand why it has endured, and illustrate the differences between various types of anamorphic and spherical lenses.  Since it would be impossible to explain the beauty of Anamorphic photography ... [ Read: New Streaming -- DCS Focus On Anamorphic at Cine Gear Expo ]

The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has re-elected its slate of officers for another term, many of whom are also longtime DCS members including Richard Crudo as president. In addition to the last two years, Mr. Crudo also held this role from 2003 through 2006, making this his sixth term as president. Other ... [ Read: ASC Re-elects Current Slate of Officers Including Richard Crudo as President ]

Panavision has released a greatly enhanced version of its popular PANASCOUT application.  Panascout allows users to capture and share images encoded with the crucial metadata needed on location scouts.  The new version offers video capture in Panaframe, a framing overlay that displays a choice of aspect ratios from ... [ Read: Panavision Announces Updated Panascout App ]

Digital Cinema Society member content contribution by Chris Chinnock, Owner of InSight Media and Organizer of upcoming Display Summit, (which takes place in Orlando June 15-16, just prior to InfoComm.) The UHD-TV specification calls for a new color gamut, the so-called 2020 gamut.  It expands the RGB primaries ... [ Read: Wide Color Gamut Displays Bring Opportunity and Some Concerns ]