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...

The first annual "Dibie Award," given in memory of George Spiro Dibie, who worked tirelessly to help to educate the industry about motion picture lighting, was awarded to Frieder Hochheim, Founder of Kino Flo. The award was bestowed in a special ceremony by John...

ARRI has introduced a new camera system to be known as the ALEXA 35.  It features a new 4K Super 35 sensor said to deliver a whopping 17 stops of dynamic range, better low light performance, and richer colors. A new color science they have named "REVEAL" is designed...

Canon has announced the launch of the new EOS R7 and EOS R10 camera bodies, Canon’s first EOS R-series featuring the smaller-size APS-C imaging sensor. The EOS R7 and EOS R10 provide enhanced video functions and accessories, such as the new multifunction shoe with EOS...

Blackmagic Design has introduced DaVinci Resolve 18 combining editing, color correction, visual effects, motion graphics, and audio post production all in one software suite. DaVinci Resolve 18 is designed to allow users to work faster and at a higher quality because...

OWC has announced the Envoy Pro mini, a pocket-sized SSD that works with USB and Thunderbolt (USB-C) Macs, PCs, iPads, Chromebooks, Android tablets, and Surface devices made over the last 15 years. Available in 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB capacities, it can access and...

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 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...

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 DCS crew is in Las Vegas for NAB 2022 and James Mathers welcomes you to our streaming coverage.  Practicing what we preach, we are putting some of the latest technology to the test by producing our  streaming booth tour coverage using a Camera-2-Cloud workflow....

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...

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...