It is with heavy hearts that we report the sad news of the passing of our friend and collaborator Karl Kresser.  Together with his wife, Juliane Grosso, he was responsible for producing Cine Gear Expo.  Prior to Cine Gear, he was the Marketing Manager at Otto Nemenz...

Sony Electronics and the University of Southern California (USC) School of Cinematic Arts have announced a new partnership to help foster cinematic education. The USC School of Cinematic Arts will be adding a variety of the latest Sony Imaging equipment ranging from...

In the run up to NAB, Blackmagic's Grant Petty held an online briefing detailing several new products and updates to DaVinci.  Known as Blackmagic Cloud, the combined hardware/software system is designed for editors, VFX artists and others to collaborate via the cloud...

Canon has announced the launch of a new series of lenses for the company’s EF Cinema Lens lineup to be known as the Flex Zoom Lens series.  The first lenses in the series are the CN-E20-50mm T2.4 L F/FP wide-angle zoom lens and the CN-E45-135mm T2.4 L F/FP telephoto...

AJA has announced free firmware updates for many of their popular products including the Ki Pro Go and U-Tap and more.  Updates are available for select AJA openGear cards with a host of improvements designed to help production professionals better maintain the...

In the lead up to NAB, Adobe has announced that all of Frame.io’s video collaboration tools, including Camera-2-Cloud, will now be included in Creative Cloud subscriptions. In addition to C-2-C, integrated post-production review and approval workflow features allow...

Adakin Press has announced the release of The Cine Lens Manual, a definitive resource on cinema lenses. Co-authored by Jay Holben and Christopher Probst, ASC The Cine Lens Manual is a journey through the world of cinema lenses investigating every possible aspect from...

Sony has announced the first shipments of their flagship digital cinema camera, the VENICE 2.  Prior to the release, the VENICE 2 had already been used on feature films and episodic work with cinematographers Claudio Miranda, ASC, Gonzalo Amat, ASC, and Rob McLachlan,...

ARRI has introduced a second generation of its TRINITY and ARTEMIS camera stabilizers that were so well shown off by Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC on his academy award winning movie 1917. We are told that the new modular system has been redesigned down to the smallest...

OWC has announced the new Flex 1U4 4-Bay Thunderbolt rackmount storage and docking Solution. The Flex 1U4 is designed as a flexible storage and docking solution for any rackmount environment with the capabilities to use SATA/SAS and U.2/M.2 NVMe drives for up to 128TB...

ZEISS has introduced their latest cine lens, the Supreme Prime 15 mm T1.8.  The new lens completes the family of popular Supreme Primes. The now 14-piece cine lens series ranges from 15 to 200 mm with a maximum aperture of T1.5 to T2.2.  The new 15 mm lens rounds out...

Unity Technologies kicked off their presentation at the Game Developers Conference, which started March 21st in San Francisco, with a screening of Enemies, a brand-new cinematic teaser featuring major advances for photorealistic eyes, hair, skin, and more – all...

The 58th Annual Cinema Audio Society Awards were bestowed at a live event on Saturday, March 19, 2022 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.  These awards honor Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing during 2021. Winners include: MOTION PICTURES – LIVE ACTION...

In an awards ceremony held at the ASC Clubhouse in Hollywood and simultaneously live streamed, winners were announced for the 36th annual American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards on March 20, 2022. ASC Cinematographer Ellen Kuras received...

Cooke Optics has announced the launch of the S8/i Full Frame (FF) series of seven lenses for full frame production with an all-spherical design and T1.4 throughout.  These currently include 25mm, 32mm, 40mm, 50mm, 75mm, 100mm, and 135mm focal lengths. A further nine...

As the threat of Covid transmission has eased somewhat, we are excited to announce that our 2022 DCS Cinema Lighting Expo will take place on Saturday, May 21st, returning to the Grip's Local 80 stage in Burbank, CA. Our 2020 Expo was the last major in-person event to...

Quasar Science has announced the global launch of its latest linear LED lighting instruments, the Rainbow 2 and Double Rainbow tubular LED lights.  The units feature multiple individually controllable pixels for both white light and saturated colors.  The slim Rainbow...

SIGMA has announced the availability of the 16mm F1.4 DC DN Contemporary, 30mm F1.4 DC DN Contemporary, and 56mm F1.4 DC DN Contemporary lenses in Fujifilm X Mount format.  The upcoming launch allows users to employ SIGMA lenses in native mount on their X Mount...

It is hard to express the great impact George Dibie had on my life, my career, and the Digital Cinema Society for which he was the inspiration.  When he shared his age with me recently it was hard to believe he was 90 years old.  He still had great vitality and a zest...

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of longtime DCS member Douglas Trumbull, whose credits include sci-fi classics such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Blade Runner.  He died on Monday, January 7, 2022 at the age of 79...

With the excitement generated around the Oscar nominations in the categories of Acting, Directing, and Best Picture, we wanted to highlight instead some of the technical arts and crafts we tend to follow for the Digital Cinema Society including Cinematography,...

DCS sister organization, the Cinema Audio Society has announced their nominees for the 58th Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for 2021 in seven categories, as well as ten Outstanding Product nominees, (including 2 products by DCS supporter...