World's first all-digital film makes debut
News The world's first film to be made from beginning to end using high-definition digital technology premieres on Wednesday to great media fanfare -- and it isn't the work of George Lucas. Like Lucas' upcoming Star Wars Episode II, Vidocq was filmed...
[September 19, 2001, 17:02]
Telluride Film Festival: Attendees Address Digital Video Revolution
White Papers Filmmakers, actors and industry insiders speak out about the emergence of digital technology, and its effects on the future of filmmaking.
[January 7, 2008, 0:01]
Lexar FireWire Compact Flash Reader
Downloads This driver provides support for the Lexar Media Firewire Compact Flash Digital Film Reader. You should download this driver if you use the FireWire Compact Flash Digital Film Reader to connect to your Macintosh.
[November 7, 2000, 7:00]
Alien Skin Exposure
Downloads Exposure brings the look and feel of film to digital photography. Reproduce realistic film grain, and simplify your digital photography workflow. Simulate the warmth and softness of real world film, both color and black and white.
[September 3, 2009, 4:09]
Film studios create new standards body
News Seven major US film studios said on Tuesday that they have joined forces to promote standards for digital cinema technology. The studios said that unlike traditional film, digital formats are not vulnerable to wear and tear.
[April 3, 2002, 15:32]
BIG Images Resolution Calculator
Downloads The application is intended to be a simple solution for owners of a digital camera, film scanner, or digital image file that want to output it on large format printing equipment. The user must tell the application the resolution of their scanner...
[June 10, 2005, 8:00]
Europe shoots to top of digital camera boom
News The research also found that last year was the first time that more digital cameras than film-based cameras were sold -- but only just. According to the CIPA, around 24.5 million digital cameras were sold in 2002, compared with 23.6 million film...
[July 29, 2003, 15:56]
FotoWire Print Service
Downloads Now you can get the same high-quality prints as those taken by a 35mm film camera from your digital camera -- on real photographic paper! With 35mm cameras, film is placed in an envelope, given to a photolab processor, and later picked up by you.
[March 18, 2003, 7:00]
Digital GEM Plug-in
Downloads Whether your digital images are from a film scanner, flatbed, Digital camera, or CD, the Digital GEM Plug-In gives you a way to reduce noise and grain, resulting in a more visually pleasing image. Image noise can be caused by a variety of factors...
[November 11, 2004, 14:38]
Kodak stops selling film cameras
Talkback I personally own 2 digital cameras; however, I also own 3 standard 35mm film cameras that I use just as often as my digitals. I disagree, also, that film photography will die out a certain point. Even regardless of connections to film or otherwise...
[January 19, 2004, 18:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The chain says that 93 percent of its customers can't tell the difference between film and digital - well, no, but then most people can't tell the difference between vinyl and CD - and as with the CD, convenience has won over quality issues that...
[August 12, 2005, 18:40]
Kodak cuts staff numbers by a fifth
News Eastman Kodak announced plans on Thursday to cut roughly 20 percent of its workforce as it moves further away from its traditional film and camera business and tightens its focus on digital markets. Kodak first detailed its intention to focus more...
[January 22, 2004, 15:35]
IBM allies with Stanford for spintronics
News By controlling the magnetic field and interpreting the resistance levels at various points on the film, digital data is created. Spintronics revolves around precisely controlling the magnetic field emanating from a thin film.
[April 26, 2004, 10:30]
Box office hits pirated over Web
News MediaForce, a digital copyright enforcement company, said the top-pirated film on the Web for June was "Snatch", followed by "Pearl Harbor", "Traffic", "Tomb Raider", "Shrek", "The Matrix", "Gone in 60 Seconds", "Hannibal", "Gladiator" and "X-Men".
[July 11, 2001, 12:03]
Bandwidth demand shuts down film
News Created by the government-funded UK Film Council, the project sought to stream the film over the Internet; stream it over the Internet to digital projectors in theatres; and release a 35mm film in traditional theatres.
[September 9, 2003, 9:30]
Olympus, Kodak click on digicam specs
News The two companies make up the newly formed Universal Digital Interchangeable Lens System Forum to encourage adoption of the standard, which has already been accepted by Fuji Photo Film. To date, manufacturers have mostly used proprietary lens-mount...
[September 25, 2002, 9:28]
Comdex: Pioneer shows off DVD-RW
News Parsons says the Copyright Protection Working Group -- made up of engineering, technology and film companies -- is working toward a Copy Protection Scheme that will protect the rights of film makers and ensure that users can use digital quality...
[November 17, 1998, 8:06]
Think Napster -- only for movies
News There's a new, easy way for pirates to trade illegally copied movies -- and black market film trading is flourishing. Some tricks are employed to shrink the film's file size. But several film clips viewed by ZDNN displayed impressive quality...
[May 12, 2000, 15:27]
Photo standard to boost print options
News Such a process is much closer to the film-based system consumers are familiar with than current digital alternatives such as ordering photos online and waiting for them to arrive in the mail or using a print kiosk at a photo store, said Lisa...
[June 18, 2002, 7:32]
Judge sides with Hollywood in RealDVD ruling
News The decision represents a major victory for the film studios, which had accused Real of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and breach of contract in a lawsuit filed last autumn. Had the decision gone against the film studios and...
[August 12, 2009, 8:38]



