Digital Cinema Society

June 5, 4:30am – 5:30 pm Kodak building at Santa Monica & Las Palmas, Hollywood. A special session examining the use Metadata in the Motion Picture industry will be hosted by the Digital Cinema Society. Featured speakers include Avid Co-founder, Peter Fasciano, Greg McMurry, ASC, Cinematographer, and Visual Effects ... [ Read: DCS to host CineGear Master Class Session on Metadata ]

The 2005 Technology Retreat will take place from January 25th to the 28th at the Rancho Las Palmas Marriott in Palm Springs, California. As in the past, the Technology Retreat focuses on new, exciting, informative, cutting edge technology for this group of top technological minds from across the country and around ... [ Read: 2005 HPA Technology Retreat ]

The Genesis™ camera, which contains a Super 35mm-sized sensor, also has a 35mm depth of field equivalent. The size, weight and ergonomics are similar to existing Panavision 35mm cameras. Features include speeds up to 50 fps, utilization of many existing cine accessories, and a dockable Sony SRW-1 VTR that virtually ... [ Read: Panavision Debuts New Genesis Camera ]

EDMUND M. DiGIULIO DIES Multiple Academy Award winning film technology innovator Edmund M. DiGiulio died June 4 of congestive heart failure at his home in Malibu CA. He was 76. A 1950 Columbia University graduate, DiGiulio began his long career of revolutionizing movie-making technology at Mitchell Camera Corp., where ... [ Read: DCS Mourns The Passing of Ed DiGiulio ]

For all of you who were too busy earning a living to make the jaunt to NAB, let me give you a couple of highlights in regard to Digital Cinema. I’ll start by telling you about our kickoff party held the evening of April 20th at Caesar's Palace and hosted by our friends at Women In Film/Las Vegas... Well, it was ... [ Read: The Digital Cinema Society at NAB 2004, One DP's Perspective ]

ADS, Advanced Digital Services, has offered a very useful chart which list most common digital format types from Full Aperature 4K uncompressed to NTSE Standard Def and even iPhone video. It then lists the corrosponding resolutions, Bitrate in Mbps, and the amount of necessary storage in GBs per minute. Available ... [ Read: Common Files Types and Their Storage Requirements ]

The Transportation Security Administration has recently announced that some overseas passengers flying to the United States who might want to carry electronic devices onboard will have to show that the devices can power up.  Although items mentioned specifically include computers and phones, we bring this to your ... [ Read: TSA Introduces New Safety Measures for Electronic Devices Traveling into US - July 2014 ]

There has been much discussion recently of problems related to Infrared Contamination when photographing brightly sunlit scenes with Digital Cinema CMOS Sensor Cameras. Slower speed emulsions used to be the answer when shooting film in these situations, but with the fixed sensitivity of the digital sensor, (ASA 320 ... [ Read: Infrared Contamination In Digital Cinematography ]

Here's a JPEG file you can download courtesy of DIT, Brook Willard which gives a great graphic example of comparing coverage areas for formats from 2/3" three chip camears all the way up to Full Frame 35mm still sizes. [ Read: Red Format Coverage Comparison Chart ]

DCS Member Content contribution submitted by Juliet Verni of Abel Cine Tech Did you ever wonder what creates permanently lit, or what we often refer to as “blown”, pixels in your CCD camera’s imager? Here’s the reason: Charged-Coupled Devices (CCD’s) are made up of an array of millions of photodiodes, ... [ Read: Lit Pixels: Why Do They Happen? ]