Digital Cinema Show Archive

Digital Cinema Show Archive

Having served the Industry since 2003, the Digital Cinema Show continues the Society's mission of empowering Filmmakers with knowledge of cinematic tools and techniques.  We gather the best of our content into an entertaining, and regularly scheduled web series...

DCS Mourns the Loss of Cine Gear Expo Producer Karl Kresser

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...

Canon Announces New Flex Full-Frame T2.4 Cinema Zoom Lenses

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...

Long Awaited Sony Venice 2 Released Into the Wild – Now Shipping

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 Introduces New TRINITY 2 and ARTEMIS 2 camera stabilizers

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...

ZEISS Introduces New Supreme Prime 15mm T1.8 Ultra Wide Lens

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...

Prepare To Be Impressed — Real-Time Game Engine Demo From Unity

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...

Winners of CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievements in Sound Mixing

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...

Newsletter 167 – Draft – Do Not Publish

DCS UPDATE February was a difficult month for us here at DCS; in addition to the upsetting developments in Ukraine, we lost two longtime members, friends and industry icons, Douglas Trumbull and George Dibie, ASC.  Following are short tributes including clips from DCS...

We Lost George Spiro Dibie, ASC Who Passed at 90 Years of Age

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...

DCS Mourns the Loss of Longtime Member, VFX Legend Douglas Trumbull

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...