DALSA Screens Origin Camera Tests at NAB2004
March 31, 2004
Waterloo, ON - DALSA Corporation will screen “footage” from successful field tests of its Origin digital cinematography camera at the NAB2004 Digital Cinema Summit. The company will also be screening the footage and demonstrating the camera on the show floor.
The material, including test charts and selected takes from a cinematic short film shot on location in Montreal, will be part of a “Camera Testing” presentation given by John Coghill, General Manager of DALSA’s Digital Cinema business unit. Following postproduction, the completed cinematic short will be submitted to the film festival circuit.
Designed for cinematographers with an 8-megapixel, 4k x 2k, film-sized image sensor optically compatible with real cine lenses and a reflex (optical) viewfinder, DALSA’s Origin turned heads and earned a healthy collection of technical awards when its prototype was introduced at NAB2003. Industry and professional feedback on the 2003 prototype has shaped the camera’s evolution into the version field-tested in Montreal.
The Montreal tests, part of an original production tentatively titled “Le Gant” (“The Glove”), conducted a true film/digital comparison: professional cinematographers, directors, and crews shot film and digital literally side-by-side on a custom camera head. Production partners included Telefilm Canada, SODEC (the Quebec cultural development society), and STCVQ (the Quebec film industry union), with postproduction support from Warner Brothers, Technicolor, Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI), and Discreet.
For more information on DALSA or the Origin camera, visit
www.dalsa.com/dc/dc.asp
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