Veteran optical systems designer Iain Neil was recently awarded the Gordon E. Sawyer Oscar statuette at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards presentation.  In town to accept the award, while visiting from his home in...

Grant Petty, founder and CEO of Blackmagic Design, took to his traditional mode of product announcement with a webcast detailing several new products including the ATEM Television Studio HD8, Studio Camera 6K Pro, and the ATEM Mic Converter; (link follows). Also...

SIGMA has introduced a new 50mm F1.4 DG DN | Art lens for Full-Frame mirrorless cameras expanding their line of fast F1.4 aperture primes. Designed for full-frame mirrorless cameras, this lens features a completely new optical formula optimized for edge-to-edge...

Canon has introduced the R8 and R50 Mirrorless Cameras. The EOS R8 is an upgrade from previous Canon mirrorless models and combines high-performance full-frame capabilities with a compact design. It has a 24.2MP full-frame CMOS sensor and DIGIC X Image Processor and...

Cineo has introduced the StageLynx App with software designed to offer lighting professionals complete local and remote control of their fixtures including custom effects, linearization, color tuning, and log data with presets. The touchscreen interface on Cineo...

Quasar Science has contributed new educational content to the DCS Illuminates library. In this third episode of The Science, Cinematographer and Color Expert Tim Kang discusses Inverse Square Law, and how to correctly use it to estimate exposure levels on your set....

Veteran Camera Operator and Founding Member of the Digital Cinema Society, Jay Nefcy passed away recently at the age of 74. Jay grew up in Detroit and after moving to Los Angeles built a solid career in the Camera department.  He served as Camera Operator for...

Quasar Science has announced the release of a new lighting design app for its Double Rainbow and Rainbow 2 RGBX linear LED fixtures. starCTRL is a free iOS app that users can download from the Apple App Store. It allows users to control color and effects parameters of...

Adopting the same compact form of the original Forza, Nanlite has introduced the Forza II Bi-Color Series LED line. Featuring an adjustable color temperature of 2700-6500K with green-magenta shift by +/- 80, this spotlight is dimmable from 0 to 100% in 0.1%...

Sigma has just announced a mirrorless version of their 60-600mm f/4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Zoom Lens compatible with full-frame E and L-Mount cameras. It is the first interchangeable lens to bring 10x magnification to the mirrorless form factor. Both stabilization and...

The Cinema Audio Society has announced its nominees in seven categories for the 59th Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing 2022. The 59th CAS Awards will be held on Saturday, March 4 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, where...

The American Society of Cinematographers has announced their Outstanding Achievement Award nominees in the feature film, documentary and television categories. Winners will be announced during the 37th Annual ASC Awards ceremony on March 5, 2023, at The Beverly Hilton...

Fivetime Oscar nominated Cinematographer Owen Roizman, ASC has passed away at the age of 86.  His amazing body of work includes such classics as The French Connection, The Exorcist, Network, Tootsie, and Three Days of the Condor among many others. Although nominated...

With the theme "Limitless is More", Canon put many of their latest technology innovations to work to create live demos at CES 2023 including Free Viewpoint video system, MReal mixed reality headset, Kokomo VR software and remote collaboration tool AMLOS. The Free...

Panasonic LUMIX has announced two new cameras - the LUMIX S5II and S5IIX. These hybrid full-frame mirrorless cameras are the latest additions to its LUMIX S Series camera line-up designed for stills and motion creators. Panasonic has developed a new 24.2MP full-frame...

Our DCS Editor Christopher Knell hates to be locked in a darkened room all day as he cuts a variety of projects, so he was excited by the announcement that Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve is now available for use on an iPad. He jumped at the chance to become a beta...

PIX and Teradek have announced a partnership to provide camera-to-cloud and workflows to feature film, streaming and broadcast television, from production origination to post-production, providing data secure solutions for collaborative review for executives,...

I was alarmed to find out from a TV Tech article by Bruce Aleksander, (link follows,) that fluorescent lighting is being phased out by law due to environmental concerns.  Not only is new LED technology over twice as energy efficient, it seems that in addition to the...

Canon has announced a multi-feature firmware update for the EOS C70 Digital Cinema Camera. Upgrades coming via this firmware update will help to improve workflow and functionality especially for the live production and documentarian markets. The firmware update will...

Blackmagic Design has announced several new updates for DaVinci Resolve 18.1 including support for editing in vertical resolutions for social media, as well as automatic locking of individual timelines within bins for multi user collaboration. This update also adds...

Quasar Science has introduced Ossium, their new accessory system with frames and shells designed to allow the user to create and control large lighting arrays by banking together LED tubes. The two new products are designed to scale up Quasar tubes such as...

Wooden Camera has introduced a cradle for the Teradek Bolt LT TX that allows the transmitter to mount in-line with Gold or V-Mount camera-back power adding a total of less than 1 lbs. A selection of Gold Mount, V-Mount, or V-Mount to Gold Mount. V-Mount to Gold Mount...

AJA has released BRIDGE LIVE v1.13.2, a new update that expands NDI capabilities and introduces new performance enhancements for AJA’s multi-channel UltraHD and HD live video solution. BRIDGE LIVE is a broadcast quality, low latency turnkey system for REMI,...

Fujifilm has introduced a new multimedia mirrorless camera, the FUJIFILM X-T5. It features a newly developed 40MP APS-C X-Trans CMOS 5 HR BSI sensor featuring a lighter body with classic, dial-based layout.  Other improvements include a seven-stop in-body image...