AbelCine EXPO: Filters for Digital Cinema

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Mitch Gross

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AbelCine is proud to introduce our new event series, AbelCine EXPOs. An AbelCine EXPO is a free event in one of our facilities, focused on a specific technology. Instead of a traditional trade show with dozens of manufacturers showing a wide variety of cameras, optics, audio, lighting, support, workflow and other production resources, we narrow the topic to a particular technology and invite a few hand-selected manufacturers to demo their products. This allows you the opportunity to get hands-on time with the products that interest you most and to learn from the experts.

Our premiere event will be the AbelCine EXPO: Filters For Digital Cinema.

Digital Cinema cameras have unique filtration needs. Manufacturers have responded with products specifically engineered to meet the challenges of these new camera systems. Mitch Gross, Applications Specialist at AbelCine, will present an in-depth analysis of the optical issues raised by Digital Cinema cameras and the latest filter offerings to deal with them in areas including Infrared (IR) and “Far Red” pollution, color correction and diffusion. Representatives from Formatt, Schneider Optics and Tiffen will have booths at the EXPO, where they demo their latest products.

AbelCine EXPO: Filters For Digital Cinema will be held November 20[SUP]th[/SUP], 6-9pm, in our New York facility. If you are unable to attend in person, you may watch the presentations live over the Internet via Livestream. The video will also be archived for later viewing.


For more information, visit our website here:
http://training.abelcine.com/event/abelcine-expo-filters-for-digital-cinema-new-york/

 
I had attempted to research this issue some time ago and never found such a comprehensive comparison. I ended up going with the Tiffen IRND.
Not sure if the Formatt was available back then, but it performs rather well in these tests...
Very informative, thank you.
 
Nice tests but I found a few considerations missing.
- What happens when you use the built in ND filters on some these cameras like the F3? Many of those have IR blocking built in - Do they work as well as the "big name filters"
- Also what happens if you combine internal filters with additional ND in front of the lens?
- What about using inexpensive commonly used non - IR filters like the Tiffen T1 developed for the EX-1 and F3 in conjunction with other ND ?
 
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