Re: Halide emulsion vs digital. Was RE: Warning of major NHS IT overspend

[Alex Tibbles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

 --- Owen Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> One of my boys decided that his thing in life would
> be to make films. He has
> a fair artistic bent but had a very limited
> technical education. He insisted
> on making his first short on 35mm stock (the
> professionals' choice and soooo
> much superior to anything else. Digital? Spit!).  He
> now has a business that
> digitally edits video and hasn't touched emulsion
> for some years.  Does
> anyone still shoot movies on 35mm stock?

AFAIK yes. You'd still struggle (ie more expensive
than film) to find hard drives that can muster 24 *
~10MB frames per second, continually (mildly
compressed images of comparable quality to 35mm), so
for high-quality footage (eg. feature films) it is
still extensively used.

IIRC Lucas shot Star Wars I exclusively on digital
(and was the first film that was digital from start to
finish, if you went to a digitally-equipped cinema).
No comment on the quality of the film. ;)

alex

alex


	
	
		
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