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...
Blackmagic Announces New ATEM Television Studio HD8, Studio Camera 6K Pro, and ATEM Mic Converter Plus Price Drop on Blackmagic Cloud Store
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 Announces 50mm F1.4 DG DN Art Lens + Major Firmware Updates for fp Series Cameras
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 Introduces the R8 and R50 – New Compact and Lightweight Mirrorless Cameras
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 Introduces StageLynx App for Local and Remote Control of all Cineo Fixtures
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’s Tim Kang Explains and Challenges the Concept of the Inverse Square Law
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....
DCS Mourns The Loss of Pioneering Digital Imaging Technician Jay Nefcy
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 Introduces starCTRL: a Free App to Control Rainbow Series Lights From an iPhone or iPad
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...
NANLITE Introduces Forza II Series
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 Introduces 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS – First 10x Ultra-Telephoto Zoom for Mirrorless Cameras
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...
Cinema Audio Society Announces 2022 Sound Mixing Nominees for March 4th Awards Ceremony in L.A.
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...
2023 ASC Awards Nominees Announced Ahead of March 5th Awards Ceremony
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...
DCS Mourns the Loss of Renowned Cinematographer Owen Roizman, ASC
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...
Canon Harnesses VR and Volumetric Capture Technology for Demos at CES
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...
Two New LUMIX Cameras Announced at CES: LUMIX S5 II and S5 IIX
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...
DCS Editor Christopher Scott Knell Beta Tests Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve for iPad
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 Partners with TERADEK to Create the PIX Connected Set Camera-to-Cloud Workflow
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,...
Fluorescent Lamps to be Phased Out Due to Environmental Concerns
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 Announces Multi-Feature Firmware Update for EOS C70 Digital Cinema Camera
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 Announces DaVinci Resolve 18.1 with Several New AI Enabled Features
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 Introduces Ossium: a New LED Tube Accessory System
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 Introduces New Cradle to Mount Teradek Bolt Onboard Cameras
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...
Cooke Optics Adds New 19-40mm Zoom Lens to Complete their Varotal/i FF Zoom Range
Cooke Optics has released a 19-40mm wide zoom in its Varotal/i FF range, which joins the 30-95mm medium and 85-215mm long zooms that were launched at the end of 2021. The 19-40mm zoom completes the Varotal/i FF series, enabling Cooke to offer broad focal length...
AJA Announces BRIDGE LIVE v1.13.2 with New NDI Capabilities and Performance Upgrades
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 Introduces the X-T5 40MP APS-C Sensor Mirrorless Camera
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...