DCS Congratulates Members Nominated for 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards

DCS Congratulates Members Nominated for 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards

The Digital Cinema Society is proud to congratulate its many members nominated for Primetime Emmys.  The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards will honor the best in U.S. primetime television as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.  Done+Dusted and Hudlin...

The Television Academy honors ARRI with an Engineering Emmy Award

The Television Academy honors ARRI with an Engineering Emmy Award

The Television Academy has announced that ARRI is among the recipients of the 74th Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy® Awards. ARRI is being awarded the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award for its more than a century of designing and manufacturing...

Picking The Right Digital Cinema Camera To Buy Is Hard To Do

Picking The Right Digital Cinema Camera To Buy Is Hard To Do

Picking The Right Digital Cinema Camera To Buy Is Hard To Do by James Mathers Cinematographer and Founder of the Digital Cinema Society (Excerpted from the June 2022 Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter) In a tradition going back to the early days of my writing for DCS,...

Blackmagic Announces New Pocket Cinema Camera 6K G2

At an MSRP of only $1,995US, Blackmagic Design announced the immediate availability of a new model of their popular Pocket Cinema Camera 6K.  It features a 6144 x 3456 Super 35 high resolution HDR sensor, dual native ISO, EF lens mount and direct recording to USB-C...

Now Streaming: DCS Coverage of Cine Gear Expo 2022

Now Streaming: DCS Coverage of Cine Gear Expo 2022

Cine Gear Expo returned to the L.A. Convention Center and the DCS crew was there covering new innovations in motion picture technology, while taking advantage of the latest advances themselves with a Camera-2-Cloud workflow.  Our on-camera host is DCS Founder James...

ARRI Introduces Fresnel Lens For Orbiter

ARRI has announced the addition of the Orbiter Fresnel lens to the already large range of optics including the Orbiter Open Face 15°, 30°, and 60°.  The new lens offers a precise light spot with a soft single shadow for a true Fresnel output. The light output of...

Now Streaming: 2022 DCS Cinema Lighting Expo

Now Streaming: 2022 DCS Cinema Lighting Expo

Welcome to our streaming coverage of the Digital Cinema Society's annual exploration of Motion Picture Lighting and Grip Technology. This event took place at the IATSE Local 80 stage in Burbank, CA on Saturday, May 21, 2022. In addition to presentations from nearly...

DCS Employs Camera-2-Cloud for Streaming Coverage of NAB 2022

DCS Employs Camera-2-Cloud for Streaming Coverage of NAB 2022

DCS Employs Camera-2-Cloud for Streaming Coverage of NAB 2022 by James Mathers Cinematographer and Founder of the Digital Cinema Society (Excerpted from the May 2022 Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter) NAB 2022 marked a return for the industry and for the Digital...

Bright Yet Light: Litepanels Introduces New Gemini 2×1 Hard

Bright, Yet Light, that's the way Litepanels is announcing their new Gemini 2x1 Hard.  It is said to deliver up to 23,000 lux output at 10ft/3m from a 500W panel in an agile fixture weighing in at just 25.3 lbs.  It can produce a powerful 20° beam of color accurate...

RSVPs Now Open for May 21st DCS 2022 Cinema Lighting Expo

RSVPs are now being accepted for the Digital Cinema Society's exploration of Motion Picture Lighting and Grip Technology. The event will return to the IATSE Local 80 stage in Burbank, CA on May 21st. Our 2020 Expo was the last major in-person event to take place...

All DCS Coverage of NAB 2022 is Now Streaming

NAB 2022 is over and we can now say, having been a part of the large crowds roaming the show floor each day, that everyone seemed both happy and relieved to be back in person. Shooting our interviews Camera-2-Cloud was a game changer, allowing us to delivery our NAB...

The Digital Cinema Society at NAB 2022

Practicing what we preach, DCS will put some of the latest technology to the test by producing our  streaming booth tour coverage of NAB 2022 using a Camera-2-Cloud workflow.  Technology from Adobe, Frame.io, Teradek, and Sony will help us deliver our fully edited...