Lens manufacturer Zeiss has acquired Ncam – the British specialist for virtual production / camera tracking is set to bring expertise for VFX workflows in-house. Incidentally, Ncam was honoured with the “Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development” for its technology in 2016 – and Ncam’s hybrid camera tracking technology makes it possible to spatially locate the camera on set – both indoors and outdoors. This data is essential for compositing (live and offline) and, of course, for virtual production. If you want to know more – we’ve featured Ncam several times in this magazine. Here are two of the articles for free download:

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Ncam in use at “Face the Darknes”

Zeiss, who some time ago were looking in the direction of VFX/compositing with the CineCraft system(here is the article from DP 22:05), are thus expanding their expertise – and perhaps everything from the lens to the projector will soon come from a single source? We’ll keep you up to date!

The post Zeiss takes over NCam first appeared on DIGITAL PRODUCTION and was written by Bela Beier.