Electric cameras have RUINED movies. SMH my head can't believe cameramen these days are too lazy to crank the camera. Theres that subtle, imperfect look that you just DON'T GET with modern gimmicks like "stable images" (postmodernist drivel)
People are beautiful. Statuesque. Parodies and tragedies of themselves. A great democracy of creatures...
I don't have strong feelings about CGI but the difference I see is that better video technology increases fidelity (realness), while CGI isn't real to begin with.
better video technology increases fidelity (realness), while CGI isn’t real to begin with.
That's the interesting thing though, I remember back when they first released the 60fps version of Jackson's Hobbit, and everybody was mad because at that degree of fidelity they could tell that the prosthetic noses for the Dwarves were obviously fake.
Do dwarf noses jiggle or something? Weird that frame rate would reveal the fakery rather than resolution or something. At any rate (pun intended) it still increases the fidelity of what you're actually recording.
You lose a lot of detail to motion blur. Higher framerates means higher motion clarity means more detail overall.
That's neat, but were there not shots of motionless dwarves in the original trilogy?
The resolution was probably better, too, but if we're being honest it's rose-tinted glasses about the original trilogy. I remember distinctly seeing Return of the King in theaters and thinking "man Ian McKellen's wizard beard glue is really obvious" and that was in 2003.
CGI is fine in its place. See Jurassic Park, Terminator 2 where they used early CGI extremely effectively and to its strengths. I don't like everything being CGI just for the hell of it.
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Yeah I've shot on some of these old hand crank cameras before, I definitely see your point. Not very good for sound film, though.
Imagine going to watch a FILM and expecting people to TALK. This isn't the wireless, kiddo. Movie cameras make NOISE because they don't want to HEAR the actors babbling around. You have to IMPRISON them in a CAGE to dampen their despairing cries.
Wanted actors to talk anyway, just for shits and giggles? We had a tool for that. They're called TITLE CARDS.
the fingerprints all over these hard drive platters say you're wrong
You say this but I worked on a film recently with a Bolex 16mm camera and the rushes looked pretty fuckin' good
They were real bad with the camera sheets tho, so it's gonna be a nightmare for whoever has to edit it
steenbeck
Nah the footage is being digitized and edited with a digital editing suite
Thank god for NLEs
Using the steenbeck with 35mm was manageable, but with 16mm is literal hell on earth.
