At this year's SMPTE Technical Conference and Exhibition in Hollywood, a technical session on “Image Acquisition,” chaired by Panasonic Broadcast product engineering manager Bill Hogan, looked at six very different topics related to digital camera technology. Hogan noted that digital image capture for big-budget feature films is doubling every year, and that the testing of digital cameras is a hot topic. “As digital capture of moving images has increased and matured,” he said, “interest has also increased in issues of quality and necessary specifications.” Here's a round-up of the technology covered in that afternoon session.
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