In this June 5, 2010 event from Cine Gear Expo at Paramount Studios, Cinematographers James Mathers, President of the Digital Cinema Society and Geoff Boyle, Founder of CML lead an exploratory discussion on the topic of PL Cine Lenses. They try to find out what Cinematographers really need to know regarding optics, performance, price, and suitability for various applications. Representatives from top lens manufacturers include:

* Jean-Marc Bouchut from Angenieux discussing their Optimo and Rouge Zooms, * Marc Shipman-Mueller from ARRI on their new Alura zooms, and Zeiss Master Primes, * Jeff Cree from Band Pro showing Leica Primes and the Ruby zoom, * Helmut Lenhof of The Carl Zeiss Company with Compact Primes and their new zoom, * Les Zellen from Cooke Optics on S4, Zooms, the new Panchos, and iTechnology, * Chuck Lee from Fujinon with their new Premeire series zooms, and * Bill Turner from Schneider Optics with the introduction of thier New Primes.

Part I: Intros and Specs

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Part II: Discussion with Q&A

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Special thanks to volunteer Cinematographer, Chris Coyne for recording the event for streaming.

HD DSLRs For Cinematography

This event was held in late March 2010 at Birns and Sayer in Hollywood. It features a special presentation by Scott Jo and Greg Salman comparing the plethora of Canon DSLR models that shoot HD, including step by step instruction on how to upgrade firmware to the camera. We also hear from Paolo Cascio, a Cinematographer who has embraced the use of the DSLR for several projects, as well as manufacturers who are offering film friendly support for shooting motion pictures with the DSLR. These include a presentation by Brian Valente of Redrock Micro covering handheld rigs, Ryan Avery of Schneider Optics on filtering considerations, and Tim Hunten of Sennheiser with some tips on sound recording. Special thanks to our volunteers Kyle Peters for shooting and to Art Freed and Eric Meier of Hot Pixel Post for handling post production.

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ARRI Lighting’s Mike Jones presents some of the company’s latest products including a 1.8K HMI PAR, LED’s, and a new 250watt “Ceramic Technology” High Output Fresnel Gas Discharge Lamp running 3200 Kelvin while cool to the touch.

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Stephan Ukas-Bradley presents the newest generation ARRI digital cameras codenamed Alexa

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ARRI’s Richard Antley gives a preview of the ARRI Relativity™ software features including Texture Control, (such as adding or subtracting grain), Film Simulation, and Space Time Converter (spatial resampling and frame rate conversion).

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Special thanks to our DCS volunteer production crew of Mike Braaten on Camera and Kevin Michael handling Sound. All postproduction services were donated by Art Freed and Eric Meier of HotPixel Post. XLH1 camera courtesy Canon.

New Panasonic 3D Camcorder and Monitors

In an interview from the 2010 HPA Tech Retreat Panasonic’s Steve Mahrer presents the AG-3DA1, a fully-integrated Full HD 3D camcorder offering SD media card recording as well as the new Panasonic professional 25.5-INCH 3D production monitor. The BT-3DL2550, offers 1920 x 1200 resolution via a passive 3D LCD.

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Also, check out the following preview Trailer for our ASC/DCS Lighting Workshop Now Available for Download in the DCS Members Area

Last May, we held in conjunction with the American Society of Cinematographers at Mole Richardson, what we believe to be our finest event to date, a day long Lighting Workshop with legendary ASC Cinematographers including Allen Daviau, Robert Primes, Michael Goi, and Michael Negrin. George Spiro Dibie, ASC, and James Mathers served as moderators while each of these esteemed Cinematographers described their on-set process and performed some of their lighting magic before a very attentive audience of nearly 100. We taped in HDV with XL H1 cameras courtesy of Canon, and used a Varicam on the set to capture the angle the DPs were lighting for. Editing is now complete and the program is available to download in your choice of file size by members in good standing. Look in the DCS members area under ASC/DCS Lighting Workshop. Here's a sample to wet your appetites a bit. For a low res Quicktime trailer:

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