There was a big article in today's LA Times about a meeting of film
makers discussing digital v. film in the movie industry. What can I
say? It's near Hollywood.
George Lucas brought the meeting to a stunned silence by showing a
digital clip and a film clip of the identical movie after 4 weeks in
a mall multiplex. The digital version was clear and crisp. What
silenced everyone was the condition of the film clip which was
amazingly deteriorated with scratches, dirt, and FADING. Coppola was
the big spokesman for the poetry of film even after comparisons
between film and digital which he criticized for being too clear.
There is evidently lots of experimentation going on grafting old film
lenses to digital cameras and getting too sharp results. So there is
some use of Saran wrap from the supermarket over the lenses to get
things back to looking like film. It is important because millions of
dollars can be saved not only on film purchase and processing, but on
the horrendously expensive reshooting of scenes where there is a
glitch that was not noticed until reviewing "the dailies"
One thing mentioned that was interesting is that one company that
supplies the film industry says that it is about to bring out a new
chip that has 5 or 6 times the resolution of current ones.
So, OM "investors" when do we sell, at the top of the market or when
the bottom has fallen out of it. :-)
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Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California, USA
mailto:wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx
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