Re: filmscanners: real value?

[Arthur Entlich <artistic@ampsc.com>]

For the time being (and perhaps sometime to come) I suspect film, as a 
capture medium, will remain superior to digital, but digital will take 
over as the medium for transfer and transmission of those images, and, 
obviously, it is also very useful for special effects.

Art

Michael Moore wrote:

> I live in Salt Lake City, Utah.... as in Sundance Film Festival.... I have
> also worked as still photog on a few features as well as shot a few
> documentary in my hoary past lives...  the digital versus film debate gets
> endlessly argued here every year... when video tape came out, it was also
> looked upon as the death knell of film... the fact is, the DP's (directors of
> photographer) much prefer to work with film because they can "paint with
> light"... that is create all kinds of moods that the silver based film seems
> able to capture with great subtlety and nuance.... it is difficult to light
> video and get the same effect... digital isn't much different... the digital
> divide at Sundance is between the young wannabe's who prefer digital 'cuz it's
> cheaper to shoot and edit (no processing, no work prints, no a/b rolls, etc.)
> and the established film guys and gals who can afford to do it the ol'
> fashioned way... that said, I should also note that Lucas Digital just came
> out with a whole digital system for projection, but that is after the film has
> been shot... so editing is also done digitally, but the original is still
> film... we'll know digital has arrived when we see Panavision quit making film
> cameras...
> 
> Mike Moore
> 
> Hart or Mary Jo Corbett wrote:
> 
> 
>> There are a great many movie theaters in the SF Bay Area, and not all are
>> multiplexes, either.
>> 
>> Hart Corbett
>> 
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>>> From: Arthur Entlich <artistic@ampsc.com>
>>> To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
>>> Subject: Re: filmscanners:  real value?
>>> Date: Tue, Jan 30, 2001, 4:42 AM
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 35mm film will go the way of the do-do, just as movies theaters did when
>>> television started showing films, and later when videotaped movies came
>>> out.  I haven't seen a movie theater in decades, have you?
>>> 
>>> However, in fairness, 8mm movie film has become a rarity since video
>>> camcorders.  What gets to live or die does, in part, depend upon how
>>> successfully the new technology replaces and if possible improves upon
>>> the old one.
>>> 
>>> Art
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