Red Digital Cinema has joined the growing list of companies who have incorporated support for the  /i Technology, developed by Cooke Optics, into their product lines. /i Technology enables film and digital cameras to automatically record key lens and camera data for every film frame shot and provide it to post-production teams digitally. The technology streamlines both production and post, saving significant time and costs and eliminating guesswork, while enabling greater creative freedom. The Cooke /i technology takes the process of recording of critical lens information out of the manual realm and making it available immediately and perpetually - on set and downstream.

Red Digital Cinema recently added /i Technology to the specification for forthcoming releases of its Red One 4k digital camera and Red lumina and prime lenses.

Red joins ARRI, Avid, Cinematography Electronics, CMotion, Preston Cinema Systems, The Pixel Farm, and Service Vision in supporting /i Technology. Cooke Optics has also incorporated the protocol into its own S4/i series of Prime lenses, providing cinematographers and camera operators with vital information on lens setting, focusing distance, aperture and depth-of-field, hyperfocal distance, serial number, owner data, lens type, focal length in both metric and footage measurements, and zoom position for zoom lenses. Cooke will showcase its S4/i Prime lenses at the April NAB conference, in the P+S Technik booth, C8828D.