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New Products & Services

Alpha Grip Deploys Mobile Film Lab
Telescopic-crane and filming-vehicle specialist Alpha Grip,
based at Shepperton Studios in London, has introduced the Alpha
Lab, a mobile film lab that brings on-site processing directly to independent and big-budget productions shooting on film. At press
time, the first truck in a planned fleet, the Alpha1 Lab, had just
arrived in New York City.
Operated by experienced, professional lab personnel, the
Alpha Lab measures 42' long and transforms into a state-of-the-art
film-processing trailer that can be deployed to any film set or studio.
Complete with a dark room, workshop, 4K scanning capabilities,
and the ability to develop film at a rate of 50' per minute - and up
to 20,000' during an eight-hour shift - the Alpha Lab also works
in conjunction with digital-dailies services to streamline postproduction.
"The Alpha1 Lab is the answer to shooting physical film on
location," says John Tadros, Alpha Grip managing director. "We're
excited at the prospect that every studio and director around the
world who chooses to shoot on film can have an Alpha Lab available
and deployed to their doorstep."
Fully functional within two hours of arriving, the Alpha Lab is
generator-powered when docked, so there's no need to worry
about power outages. The Alpha Lab is also an eco-friendly, Thames
Water-licensed facility, featuring an onboard electronic chemical
mixing lab with Kodak Kit chemistry, and it houses all of its chemical
waste for proper disposal at off-site facilities.
"The broad support of film we are seeing from studios and
directors alike has been amazing," says Andrew Evenski, Kodak's
president of Entertainment & Commercial Films. "Kodak is all-in on
film, and we will continue to support creative ways to deliver the
best products from the best people. Alpha Grip is streamlining the
filmmaking process, and we're excited about how it can transform
the film industry."
For additional information, visit www.alphalab.london,
www.alphagrip.co.uk and www.kodak.com.
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Canon Adds 4K Reference Monitor
Canon U.S.A. Inc. has expanded its portfolio of referencedisplay products with the introduction of the DP-V2410 4K Reference
Display. Measuring 24" diagonally and weighing approximately 26
pounds, this new display was engineered to serve as an easily transportable on-set reference for 4K/UHD and 2K/HD program origination.
It is housed within a sturdy metal frame that includes handles and
adjustable feet that facilitate rapid setup in any shooting environment.
It also features a 24-volt DC input.
The display's 17:9 10-bit In-Plane Switching (IPS) Panel features
outstanding sharpness and deep and accurate black reproduction that
provides a 2,000:1 contrast ratio, which complies with DCI specifications. A special anti-glare coating helps ensure faithful image reproduction within challenging environments often encountered on set. A
Canon-designed RGB LED backlight system and specially developed
high-bit-depth image-processing engine helps ensure highly uniform
brightness and accurate DCI-P3 color reproduction. The display panel
and associated digital-video processing offer two modes of HDR
portrayal. Additionally, the internal deBayering facilitates direct live
viewing of the uncompressed raw 4K/2K outputs of the EOS C500 and
EOS C300 Mark II cameras.
The 10-bit panel supports accurate tonal reproduction, allowing
precise portrayal of broadcast standards ITU-R BT.709, EBU and SMPTE
C, and also near complete portrayal of the DCI-P3 digital-cinema standard. The 4096x2160 display pixel structure and 17:9 aspect ratio
displays all broadcast and cinema digital-sampling standards on a
precise dot-by-dot basis. The DP-V2410 can also accept wide color
gamuts like the ITU-R BT.2020 UHD gamut using a specially developed
gamut-mapping technology to optimally display color data outside of
the panel's native color gamut.
The reference display also features several shooting-assist functions for cinema professionals, including support for Canon Log 2 and
the ACESproxy transfer standard, as well as the ability configure the
display's eight LUTs for each picture mode, allowing the user to freely
switch LUTs within the same picture mode.
The range of elements displayed on the screen now includes
waveform monitor, vectorscope, audio-level meters, Area Markers and
camera information, and
the display is fully
customizable to suit a
user's needs and circumstances.
An HDMI terminal
has been added, improving linking capabilities
with digital cameras and
allowing transmission of
4096x2160 60p images

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