Digital Cinema Society

DCS Congratulates the Winners of the ATAS Engineering Emmys including: Dolby Laboratories for the Dolby PRM-4200 Professional Reference Monitor, described by the Academy as "a Grade 1 monitor that offers a new standard for critical viewing applications. The monitor renders true black levels, highly accurate dark ... [ Read: Friends of DCS: Dolby, Sony, and Adobe Win Tech Emmys ]

This KODAK application is now available as a free download from the iTunes App Store. The new app helps filmmakers determine the correct settings for achieving desired focus, and easily connects them with Kodak around the world. There are fields for entering known data - such as film format, F-stop, focal length ... [ Read: Kodak Offers New Depth of Field Calculator ]

According to annoucements posted November 30th on REDuser.net, a new product, RED RAY PRO will be available in January or February 2010 with the following specs: * Decode .R3D RAW files to 5K 30 fps * Decode .RRD (RED RAY Distribution format) 4:4:4 files up to 4K @ 30 fps * Up to 12 channels of compressed ... [ Read: New RED RAY and Scarlet Announcements ]

After making the first pre-order at the IBC in Amsterdam in September of 2008, DCS member Nick Paton, ACS, of Brisbane, Australia recently received a prototype which he has been beta testing for the Swedish company best known for their small form factor S16mm film camera. When the fully featured camera is realeased ... [ Read: Field Testing Begins for Ikonoskop a-cam dII - 2/3" Single CCD RAW HD Camera ]

2 New Streaming - RED Rocket™ & Panasonic HPX300 Check the New Streaming Page or log into the Members Area Streaming Page for these Digital Cinema Society meetings. Our latest, Introducing The RED Rocket™ was held on September 5, 2009 at LIGHTIRON Digital, Los Angeles. DCS Advisory Board Members and RED ... [ Read: 2 New Streaming - RED Rocket™ & Panasonic HPX300 ]

Look in the New Streaming Section for coverage of this meeting looking at the Canon 5D MkII and Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1 for Motion Pictures. The Digital Cinema Society Northern California Chapter present the motion picture capabilities of the Canon 5D MkII and the Lumix GH1 hybrid digital still cameras. There is ... [ Read: New Streaming - Digital Still Cameras for Motion Picture Production ]

SI-2K from March 21st Event at Band Pro A new program is now streaming from the website and can currently be accessed from the “New Streaming” link on our homepage. Check out the camera that is receiving so much buzz after being used to capture major portions of “Slumdog Millionaire.” Our March 21st event held ... [ Read: New Streaming ]

We are often asked about the progress of the Digital Cinema “Roll-Out,” and word is that, not surprisingly, due to the global financial crisis, things are progressing much slower than many would have hoped for. Current figures indicate that there are about 40,000 theatrical screens in the US, while only 12% are ... [ Read: Digital Cinema Exhibition's Slow Roll-Out ]

Hosted by DCS Advisory Board member Barry Clark, of Mandalay Entertainment, Band Pro’s Randy Wedick presents the Sony XDCAM, PMW-EX1 Camcorder. This compact solid state camera records to Flash Memory Cards and features 1/2” imagers to make it the smallest and lowest priced camera to ever carry the “CineAlta” ... [ Read: Now Streaming: XDCAM EX-1 & New Lighting Technology Event ]

New cameras are covered including RED’s newly announced “Scarlet” 3K and “Epic 5K”, Panasonic’s new Varicam2, HVX200a, HVX170, Sony’s F35, XDCAM EX3, Arri’s D21, the Vision Research Phantoms, and Canon updated XLH1s. Also, look for Blackmagic Design’s President, Dan May and AJA’s President Nick ... [ Read: Reports Now Streaming from NAB ]