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    Panavision’s Millennium DXL2 camera to debut at NAB

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    WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. --

    Panavision, designer, manufacturer and provider of state-of-the-art cinema lenses, high-precision camera systems and innovative postproduction technologies, will showcase its Millennium DXL2 8K camera at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show, which runs April 7-12 in Las Vegas. Technology leaders from Panavision and its subsidiary Light Iron will also share their vision and expertise during panel discussions throughout the conference.

    The DXL2 is the evolution of a unique camera ecosystem, built by Panavision based on the input of cinematographers whose feedback contributed to the DXL2’s many significant advances. Introduced in February, the DXL2 features a RED MONSTRO 8K VV sensor with 16-plus stops of dynamic range, improvements in image quality and shadow detail, a native ISO setting of 1600, and ProRes 4K up to 60 fps. Images are presented on the camera in log format using new Light Iron Color 2 science (LiColor2), which streamlines the 8K pipeline and provides quick access to high-quality RAW images. Additional features to the DXL2 include a custom-made, integrated PX-Pro color spectrum filter offering a significant increase in color separation and dramatically higher color precision to the image; a built-in Preston MDR; 24v power; and expanded direct-to-edit features.

    Hands-on demonstrations of the DXL2 will take place at the Vitec booth (C6025) and at Vitec Creative Solutions (C9544).

    NAB attendees also have a chance to hear directly from the experts and designers behind Panavision’s cameras and lenses, and postproduction innovator Light Iron. Several discussions will take place at the Las Vegas Convention Center (unless otherwise noted), including:

    Avid Customer Association Technology Open Forum
    Light Iron Panel Participant Jeff Sengpiehl, VP of Engineering
    Friday, April 6, 4:45-5:30pm
    Location: Avid Connect (pre-NAB conference)
    Wynn Las Vegas Conference Center
    3131 South Las Vegas Boulevard

    HDR Varicam Workflow for Netflix’s The Week Of
    Light Iron Panel Participant Katie Fellion, Head of Business Development & Workflow Strategy
    Monday, April 9, 12:30-1pm
    Location: Panasonic booth (C3607)

    Made in Georgia: Shaking up the Film and Digital Media Production Landscape
    Panel moderated by Clark Cofer, Director of Business Development, Light Iron
    Monday, April 9, 3:30-4:30pm
    Location: S222-S223 

    Venice HDR Creative and Workflow for #PictureDay Music Video
    Panavision/Light Iron Panel Participant Michael Cioni, Sr. VP of Innovation
    Tuesday, April 10, 1-1:30pm
    Location: Sony booth (C11001)

    The Media Archivist vs. Entropy, or, Why On-Set Data Verification is Really Important
    Presented by Keenan Mock, Senior Media Archivist, Light Iron
    Tuesday, April 10, 3-3:20pm
    Location: LumaForge’s “Faster, Together” Stage (S112LMR)

    The Future of 8K
    Presented by Michael Cioni, Sr. VP of Innovation Panavision and Light Iron 
    Wednesday, April 11, 10-10:20am
    Location: LumaForge’s “Faster, Together” Stage (S112LMR)

    Understanding Full Frame Cameras & Lenses
    Panavision Panel Participant Guy McVicker, Manager, Technical Marketing & Optics
    Wednesday, April 11, 2:00-3:15pm
    Location: Post Production World session (N231)

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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