Digital Cinema Society

by James Mathers Cinematographer and Founder of the Digital Cinema Society (Excerpted from the February 2022 Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter) It’s Great To Be Back - DCS Explores the 2022 HPA Tech Retreat In a DCS tradition maintained for many years, (with the exception of 2021 which was held virtually ... [ Read: It's Great To Be Back - DCS Explores the 2022 HPA Tech Retreat ]

CES 2022 Highlights Solutions, Way Forward DCS Member Content Contribution from Andy Marken of Marken Communications Excerpted From January 2022 Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter We had a major argument with ourselves this month on whether we would or wouldn’t go to CES. We had serious doubts that Gary Shapiro ... [ Read: CES 2022 Highlights Solutions, Way Forward - Member Content Contribution from Andy Marken ]

by James Mathers Cinematographer and Founder of the Digital Cinema Society (Excerpted from the December 2021 Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter) The world of in-person events and entertainment has been thrown into chaos amid an explosion of COVID-19 cases.  While this might seem like a headline from March ... [ Read: DCS Continues to Adapt to a World Impacted by the Covid-19 Pandemic ]

by James Mathers Cinematographer and Founder of the Digital Cinema Society (Excerpted from the November 2021 Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter) I shared earlier this year in an essay for DCS that I finally decided the time was right to invest in a mirrorless stills and motion camera. With an original Canon ... [ Read: Picking A Mirrorless Camera With a Little Help From My Friends ]

by James Mathers Cinematographer and Founder of the Digital Cinema Society (Excerpted from the August 2021 Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter) Deep Fakes -- Not All Fun and Games Anymore Artificial Intelligence is a powerful tool that can be used to speed up and improve the creation of visual effects, among ... [ Read: Deep Fakes -- Not All Fun and Games Anymore ]

by James Mathers Cinematographer and Founder of the Digital Cinema Society (Excerpted from the July 2021 Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter) The question of what to call the smartphone/camera reminds me of the famous dialogue at the finale of Chinatown, “She’s my daughter…She’s my sister...She’s ... [ Read: The Smartphone -- Camera or Communication Device, a Crisis of Identity ]

by James Mathers Cinematographer and Founder of the Digital Cinema Society (Excerpted from the June 2021 Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter) You may send me to wash my mouth out with soap after you read this, but old habits die hard and the vernacular we use on film sets is slow to change.  In fact, the word ... [ Read: You Can't Say That Anymore - The Evolution of Language on Film Sets ]

by James Mathers Cinematographer and Founder of the Digital Cinema Society (Excerpted from the May 2021 Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter) This is not the first time prognosticators have predicted the end of the movies.  TV sent a chill up the spine of Exhibitors when it first started to gain ground in the ... [ Read: The Final Nail in the Coffin? The Pandemic and the Future of Theatrical Exhibition ]

This is the second in a series documenting my ongoing quest to find the right small form factor camera to add to my equipment arsenal.  I own several full featured Digital Cinema cameras including a couple of Panasonic Varicams, a Blackmagic Design URSA Mini Pro 12K, and a few trusty old HD cameras from Canon.  However, ... [ Read: DCS Road Test - James Mathers and Friends Evaluate The Panasonic Lumix S5 ]

First, let’s start with the headline news: Sigma has announced a major upgrade to their Compact Mirrorless fp camera and added a detachable EVF.  The new “fp L,” is identical to the extremely compact body of the original fp released in 2019.  However, the “L” has significant new features under the hood ... [ Read: A Deeper Dive - James Mathers Reviews the Versatile Sigma fp L & EVF-11 ]