3D may be the buzz word for 2010, but don’t let 3D buzz you off! DSC’s new Fairburn 3-D significantly reduces the risk of setting up a 3D rig incorrectly, by giving you all the tools you need for alignment, testing, set up and maintenance of all of the main variables in one, definitive, chart. Key features include:
- Corner focus fans
- Multiple built in tools for keystone correction and horizontal and    vertical alignment
- Grey scale, peak black/white, 18% grey and ChromaDuMonde    colour reference
- Orientation detectors and up/down, flip/flop references
- Horizontal and rotational offset checking
- Two sizes, to suit internal/studio or external/sports/OB use

DSC Labs have an ever increasing range of specialised camera alignment charts to suit all applications in the movie and broadcast industry, and all budgets.

The most popular charts are the CamAlign ChromaDuMonde series. Each contains 11 step EIA crossed greyscales, peak white (100 IRE) and black chips, plus between 12 and 28 colours (including 4 useful standardized skin tones) and the option to add the unique Resolution Gratings. Simply pointing a camera at the chart and shooting a few seconds at the start of each scene or at each lighting change will give a straightforward reference for maintaining colorimetry through the rest of the production process.

Expected vectorscope displays resulting from correctly aligned cameras and a 28 chip ChromaDuMonde chart.

The smoothly graded blue patch is designed to allow simple and speedy investigation into what process stage introduces banding type artefacts into sky, whilst on the opposite side of the chart are Digital Green and Blue - special effects chips from Composite Components plus Rosco's Chroma Key Green and Blue. The High Chroma slashes can be used for checking and tracking chroma aliasing through post and there are inch and centimetre scales top and bottom. Additionally, the two hemispherical reflectance spheres show the number, position and type of lighting, hue and colour filtration of individual lights (black sphere) whilst the white shows the integrated level and colour temperature.

With 4 saturation levels per colour you might be able to imagine the intricate “spider’s web” that the DreamCatcher chart creates on a vectorscope. But what that means as you adjust the matrix or output with a LUT is up to your imagination!!
Still containing peak B/W patches, crossed greyscales and multiple framing lines, this chart was one of four new releases from DSC at NAB ‘08

Also new for 2008 was the amazing Colour Resolution chart - this will certainly sort the 4:4:4’s from the 3:1:1’s and the bayer single sensors from the 3-chip prism blocks!!!

No one who seriously wants to analyse a camera to death should be without one of these charts.

FiddleHead and Resolution chart - another customer designed chart to set up back focus on today’s cameras, with corner resolution wedges up to 1600 TV LPPH

CamBook - all the charts you should need in a handy 30 cm x 20 cm (approx 12” x 8”) book