Scientific approach needed

When trying to select the right camera, look at the difference between optical sampling from the camera's imagers (where resolution is totally determined) and its digital sampling, states Studio Daily.

That's the basic premise behind a seven-part series entitled "Demystifying Digital Camera Specifications", which details the complex science of image resolution and digital cinema cameras. The series is now available on the Panavision Web site.

Digital cinema technology experts John Galt and Larry Thorpe present the in-depth symposium. Both say there's a need for a "scientifically valid, objective method" of assessing the quality of digital and film images.

Adobe plans to lead a new industry open file format for digital cinema files. The plan is to streamline workflows and gradually help ensure easy archiving and exchange, says NewsOXY.com.

The Flash company intends to leverage its successful Digital Negative Specification, CinemaDNG, file format as a foundation.

The company plans to work with a broad coalition of leading camera manufacturers, including Panavision, Silicon Imaging, Dalsa, Weisscam, ARRI and software vendors.

An unprecedented digital rendering of the suspected Esplanade attacker who has preyed on women for the past two summers generated a flurry of more than a dozen leads in just one day and brought investigators closer to cracking the case, reports BostonHerald.com.

"It's something we're very pleased with," said state police Sgt Brian L Howe, supervisor of the Troop H detectives. "We're doing background checks on at least a dozen people."

By 15h00 Friday, more than a dozen people had called with tips regarding potential suspects, said Howe, who wants to expand investigators' use of 3D imaging.