This 4,500 seat auditorium has seven professional Sony cameras aligned to a Maxi ChromaDuMonde chart

Here the 40"x24" Maxi chart is adequate, but the new 7200 seat auditorium may need an even larger ChromaDuMonde 

Here is the amazing success story -
 

The Church started in October 1975 in the Willow Creek Theater in Palatine, IL.  with 125 people, and moved to the current location in 1981.

There are three weekend services on Saturdays at 6 p.m. and Sundays at 9 and 11:15 a.m.  Midweek attendance is between 6,000 and 7,000 adults.

Current number of ministries is nearly 100 with a staff of more than 500 full-time and part-time employees.  Volunteer involvement is approximately 7,500 people.  There are more than 17,000 children and adults involved in small groups, with a total number of small groups of around 2,700.

The campus currently covers 155 acres, including a five-acre lake.  There are 2,879 parking spaces (to expand to 4,740 spaces).  Facilities include 404,000 square feet building - the main auditorium opened in February 1981 and has a seating capacity of 4,540.  A chapel—used primarily for funerals and weddings—opened in 1988 and has a seating capacity of 500.  The Activity Center opened in 1991 as part of a 200,000 square-foot expansion.  It contains three high-school-size basketball courts or four volleyball courts with a seating capacity of 1,800.  The Atrium seating capacity is 750. Facilities include a 5,000 square-foot bookstore, 50 classroom-sized rooms, and 18 breakout rooms for small group meetings.

The New Auditorium is well on the way and scheduled to open in September 2004.  It will seat 7,200 people.

Willow Creek Wheaton began videocasting weekend services from South Barrington on March 3, 2002. Current Wheaton weekend services are on Sunday at 9 and 11:15 a.m.  Willow Creek North Shore began videocasting services Sunday, April 13, 2003 at 9 a.m.  Willow Creek McHenry will begin videocasting services Sunday, November 2, 2003

Current Willow Creek member churches number over 9,500. Current growth rate is about 5 new churches daily.  Domestic and international member churches represent a broad variety of denominations.

For further information please contact Willow Creek at: 67 East Algonquin Road, South Barrington, IL 60010-6143 • (847) 765-5000 • www.willowcreek.org  or (224) 512-1004
 

Thanks to Jeff Cree for the following

Here Jeff is using his HD ChromaDuMonde to run "green screen" tests on two new Sony cameras at Robert Rodriguez' Los Hooligans Studio.

These cameras are an HDCF950, one of Sony's first 4:4:4 HD cameras, and an HDWF900.  

The HDWF900 camcorder has the same basic features as the HDW700A plus a 24psf mode and a number of other features.  It's a 12 bit DSP camera, which gives it an edge in picture quality.

Checking alignment and matching cameras on the set can not only make better pictures, but also save money in post.

Aligning HDW-F900 camera using a DSC CamAlign FrontBox-Pro chart.  The camera will be attached to the Deep Rover submersible on a Vince Pace and Jim Cameron project.

Vince Pace and the Sub crew installing the HDW-F900 housing on the Deep Rover

This remarkable submersible weighs 3.6 tons (in air) is about 8x6 feet in size and can work at depths to 3000ft. (900m).  Two 5" thick acrylic plastic hemispheres give great visibility and are joined using two aluminum rings.

Here Deep Rover dwarfs the Front box being used to set up colorimetry.  We were very happy to receives Jeff's comments on the CamAlign in an e-mail.

"The durability of the chart is unmatched.   I just had to make some setup tables for underwater for the upcoming Star Wars project and a film called "Into the Blue".   I took the front box chart to 130 feet in salt water and setup a camera matrix to bring back the colors to correct values.   This was done for 20 to 30 foot ranges back to the surface.   After I was done I dried off the chart and put back in the case, do that with a paper chart."