Digital Cinema Society

Training operators to run cameras in studio production and OB trucks is often learned from someone within the group, and can therefore vary greatly in scope and thoroughness. Originally presented at NAB2014 in the Tektronix booth, this video is a condensed version of George Palmer’s presentation “Multi-Camera TV ... [ Read: Multi-camera Set Up for High End Production by George Palmer ]

Thoughts on Determining a Digital Cinema Camera’s Sensitivity and Setting Exposure  By: James Mathers, Cinematographer and President of the Digital Cinema Society I was asked recently to provide insight into how a Cinematographer might evaluate exposure, and think I can offer a couple of points that will ... [ Read: Determining Digital Cinema Camera Sensitivity and Setting Exposure ]

Sensor Dimensions: The height and width of a sensor, measured in inches, millimeters and/or pixels. S35: Super 35mm. Sensor dimensions equivalent to a 3-perf, 16:9 frame of 35mm film, which is 25mm wide X 14mm tall. FF35: Full Frame 35mm. Sensor dimensions equivalent to 8-perf horizontal 35mm film, which is ... [ Read: Digital Cinema Production and Post TECHNICAL TERMS ]

Avid Workflows for Digital Cinema Cameras, (published September 2014) -- Valuable tips for a smoother end-to-end workflow. With a proliferation of high-resolution cameras, formats, and ever-evolving standards, today's editorial workflows are rapidly growing more complex. How can you integrate disparate technologies ... [ Read: Avid Workflows for Digital Cinema Cameras ]

ARRI waited until they were on their home turf at the Cinec expo in Munich to announce a new VERY large sensor camera, known as the ALEXA 65. The sensor is around 3x bigger than that of a Super35 with an active image area of 54.12 mm x 25.59mm which is even larger than the film gate of ARRI’s 765 65mm film camera.

The ... [ Read: News From Cinec: New ARRI Alexa 65 with 6K+ Resolution and Codex Support ]

A lot of capability packed into a very light weight package; that’s how I would describe the SmallHD DP-7-PRO I took out for a spin recently…and it just keeps getting better. I was already impressed with it’s long list of features such as Wave Form, Histogram, and Zebras for exposure control, with pixel zoom ... [ Read: DCS Road Test -- SmallHD DP7-PRO -- Evaluation by James Mathers ]

What’s Expendable In Movie Making? Excerpted from the James Mathers column One DP’s Perspective in the Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter September 2014 Safety on the set has been on everyone’s mind since the tragic death of Camera Assistant, Sarah Jones.  Various locals of IATSE, in particular, the International ... [ Read: What's Expendable In Movie Making? ]

Dedo Weigert, renowned Cinematographer and Inventor of the dedolight will present two one-day hands-on lighting workshops at their showroom located at Luminys Systems, North Hollywood, CA.  DCS members who register by November 3rd may attend at no charge either full day session, on November 8th or 9th.  See the flyer ... [ Read: Free Dedo Weigert Lighting Workshops, Nov. 8th or 9th at Luminys, North Hollywood, CA ]

There has been a sea change for feature film acquisition in the last decade moving from primarily celluloid to digital capture.  A number of established Directors, from Steven Spielberg to Christopher Nolan have the clout to insist on shooting film, but Indie Filmmakers might fear this will be out of their reach.  ... [ Read: DCS Event: The Economics and Aesthetics of Shooting Indie Films on Film ]

ARRI has announced that it will include ProRes 3.2K in an Alexa software update scheduled for release early next year.   ProRes 3.2K – a new recording format developed for ARRI  will allow up- sampling in post to UHD. It was also announced recently that a similar software upgrade will allow ARRI’s AMIRA to ... [ Read: ARRI Answers Call for Advanced Resolution with ProRes 3.2K for UHD Deliverables ]