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Mike Inchalik
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Mike Inchalik is Lowry Digital’s Executive Vice President. He has spent his career at the intersection of analog and digital imaging science.
He joined Kodak after earning a degree in Chemical Engineering from Bucknell University to help design new photographic films. While at Kodak he saw the potential of digital imaging and went back to school part TIME, receiving his master’s degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Rochester. Inchalik was part of the team of engineers that envisioned the need for, designed and built the very first Kodak digital film scanner during the early 1980s.
He was a key member of the brain trust behind the development of the Cineon Digital Film System, which was quickly embraced as the defacto industry standard for digital film work. Cineon provided a practical capability for converting images captured on film into digital files at up to 4K resolution. It included image processing software and workstations, and a laser recorder for rendering the processed digital files back onto film. The initial application was the restoration of the classic Walt Disney animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, in 1993. The success of that project led directly to the evolution of hybrid technologies for creating visual effects, film restoration and digital intermediate technology and workflows.
Inchalik held a number of key management positions in the field of hybrid imaging at Kodak prior to joining Lowry Digital Images as its President in 2003. While he has continued to be involved in the underlying technology of the Lowry Process™ which underpins the company’s image processing services, he now focuses his efforts on leading the company’s strategic planning for new initiatives and specific project management.
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