Digital Vision purchased by management team

Color grading, restoration and film scanning product provider Digital Vision has been bought out by its management team – Kelvin Bolah, Greg Holland and Claes Westerlund. They acquired the company from Swedish company Image Systems for 6.1 Million SEK.

The entire Digital Vision team will remain in place, and offices in London, LA, Melbourne, New York and Sweden will also remain. In a press release, new CEO Bolah said, “Digital Vision’s staff, customers and partners were of the utmost importance in this acquisition and our main reason for the management buy-out. Having worked with them for many years and seeing their passion, expertise and the amazing projects they produce, we knew we had to keep the Digital Vision brand alive. With the investment that the company now has we will be able to accelerate the R&D and engineering to deliver our award-winning products in a timely fashion to a global customer base.”

Also from the press release, the company set out its current product range:

  • The Golden Eye 4 archive scanner which incorporates many new features and enhancements including universal optics – a single lens, motor driven, multi-axis optical system for precision image sizing, position and focus. Users can scan at HD to 4K any film size from 8mm to 70mm without changing the optics, gate or sensor.
  • The Bifrost Archive Bridge, a unique scalable solution, suitable for archives of any size, comprising various workflow components that can be utilised either as a complete end-to-end solution or integrated into existing infrastructures depending on individual requirements.
  • The Nucoda colour grading suite, which combines a creative colour toolset, Precision and Tangent panel support and access to the DVO suite of enhancement tools, allowing users to easily create complex looks and visual styles.
  • Phoenix, the world’s premier film restoration software, designed to produce great results fast with less manual intervention. Phoenix features award-winning DVO restoration tools.
  • Thor hardware designed for real time 4K image processing.

For more information head to http://www.digitalvision.se.