Section Officials
Chairperson
Ron Caird
Pathfire
678 566-5235
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Secretary/Treasurer
Zandra Clarke
Turner Networks
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Past Chairperson
David Siegler
WSOC-TV
704-355-4795
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Membership Chair
Dan Burnett
Program Coordinator
James Wilson
Webmaster
Andy Funk
FOX5 News, WAGA-TV
404-898-0116
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Jack Gary '06
Turner
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Doug Keltz '06
Tektronix
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Ry Alford '06
T.J. Scott '07
Thomson
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Mickey Kroll '07
DST
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Dick Perin '07
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Tektronix
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Paul
Hogan �05
Sony
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Next Meeting:
Tuesday, January 10, 2026
(Note: Non-Standard Meeting Day!)
Corky's
Barbeque 6:30 PM
Program Starts at 7:30 PM
Program By:
Canon Broadcast
Hosted By:
Canon USA
5625 Oakbrook Parkway
Norcross, 30093
(770) 849-7700
Topic:
HD Motion Imaging � A Hierarchy of Acquisition Formats
Larry Thorpe
Canon Broadcast
There
is presently a broad range of options for originating HD motion imaging
content in the digital domain. A hierarchy has emerged based on image format
size, associated lens, and recording format.
While
this is good news in terms of digital content creation -- it is also fraught
with confusion with respect to the relationship between the anticipated
performance and the associated specifications of each system.
The
many aesthetic attributes of a moving image are separately quantifiable
"dimensions" ( contrast, sharpness, color, exposure latitude, etc.) that are
created within the object image of the HD lens. Collectively, they add up to
an enormous amount of analog information presented to the HD camera. It is
the role of the contemporary HD camera to transform all of this into the
digital domain � the "shoot" process.
The
necessary sampling and digitization process within the camera must be highly
cognizant of the individual image parameters and how they relate to the
capabilities of the human visual system. This produces an extraordinarily
high date rate that must then be recorded � the image "capture" process.
What separates one digital HD acquisition system from another is the
management of this image information within the lens, the digital camera,
and the digital recording format. This presentation will address these
relationships.
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meeting. While we encourage you to join our organization, you do not have to
be a SMPTE member to attend. Find out more about the Society Of Motion
Picture & Television Engineers at
www.smpte.org.
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Invite
your Friends And Colleagues
Position
Available:
Crawford
is looking for a Post Production Engineer with Avid experience. Contact David Warner,
Director of Post Engineering for specific details of this position.
He can best be reached via email,
[email protected].
Program
Suggestions:
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there a topic that you would like us to cover or want to present? Do you
have new equipment or a facility you would like to show off?
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are always looking for hosts and presenters for our meetings.
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meeting notices and other appropriate announcements. The list is easily
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list options �yourself� on the list
Info Page, or view past list messages kept the list
Archive.
And
now there's another list that may be of interest �
AtlTech � created for those in the Atlanta area interested in
broadcast, television and motion picture engineering. It is a "place"
online where SMPTE members interested in the SBE can learn of what they're
doing, and where SBE members can learn of SMPTE activities, etc.
You can subscribe, unsubscribe, and change your list options �yourself�
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to Section Chair Ron Caird:
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comments or suggestions for the Section web site? Send them to Andy
Funk, [email protected] or
[email protected].
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more information on the Society visit the SMPTE Home Page.
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sites can be found on our Internet Links page.
Many
of our past meeting announcements can be found in our
archives directory.
News of Related Organizations:
The
Peach State Chapter of the Society of Broadcast Engineers web site at
www.broadcast.net/~sbe5/
has information on the activities of this related group.
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