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DALSA
plays a role in winning Sci-Tech Oscar for 2010
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DALSA provides key technology for the motion
picture industry
DALSA and DFT works in tandem to produce the
world's best high-resolution, multi-format film scanners
With hardware provisioned by DALSA and processes developed by DFT Digital
Film Technology, the Spirit 4K/2K Film Scanner
was recognised by The Academy of Motions Pictures as becoming the industry
standard for converting film to digital and video formats.
The Spirit's developers, Volker Massmann, Markus Hasenzahl, Klaus
Anderie and Andreas Loew, were each awarded a Scientific
and Engineering Award for their distinguished product.
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The Award
Recognizing the crucial role of science and technology in the movie-making
process, the Academy has, almost since its inception, honored the
achievements of pioneers whose work have advanced the motion picture
industry.
The Academy’s Scientific and Technical Awards is conferred upon
those whose discoveries and innovations have contributed in significant,
outstanding and lasting ways to motion pictures. The Sci-Tech Awards
presentation has become a highlight of the Academy Awards season and
takes place a fortnight before the Oscar ceremony. |
This year,
Digital Film Technology and DALSA have distinguished themselves
with the Spirit 4K/2K, which incorporates a continuous-motion transport
mechanism enabling full-range, high-resolution scanning at much
higher frame rates than non-continuous transport scanners.
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The Product
The Spirit products are high-speed, high-precision Film Scanners
that scan film images in 4K or 2K resolution to convert the film
to a digital media format for editing, compositing, distribution,
and archival.
DFT has installed more than 450 systems of the Spirit family worldwide
and is considered the market leader in fast, high end film scanning. |
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DALSA's role
DALSA has an ongoing, long-term relationship, as an image-sensor-technology
provider ,with DFT. The custom-built, dual line scan sensor was
developed specifically to meet Digital Film Technology’s demanding
technical requirements for the Spirit Film Scanners and is a very
high-precision sensor that achieves exceptional image quality.
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Custom DALSA line scan sensors
power Digital Film Technology's Spirit 4K/2K Film Scanner. |
Having to meet the challenging performance goals set by DFT, the
sensor was also designed with anti-reflective properties to eliminate
surface reflections during the film scanning process. As a result,
the Spirit Film Scanners enable high-resolution,
multi-format film scanning with unrivalled precision, stability,
and image quality, setting the industry standard
for high-resolution film transfers.
In congratulating the DFT team, Gareth Ingram, DALSA's Vice President
and General Manager of Digital Imaging stated that DALSA had been
engineering a high-quality product for 30 years and that they were
extremely proud of their company's association with DFT’s
Spirit 4K/2K film scanner, destined to become the de facto standard
in Digital Intermediate post production systems.
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DFT Accepting the Academy Award
Markus Hasenzahl, Andreas Loew, Volker Massmann and Dr. Klaus Anderle
accept Scientific and Engineering Awards for the development of
the Spirit 4K/2K film scanning system as used in the digital intermediate
process for motion pictures. |
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Adept Electronic Solutions are "The Machine Vision and Imaging
Specialists" and distributor of DALSA products in Australia and
New Zealand. To find out more about any DALSA machine vision product
please email us at: adept@adept.net.au
or call us at Perth (08) 92425411 / Sydney (02) 99792599 / Melbourne
(03) 95555621 or use our online contact
us page.
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