Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Commenting on the same quote by B and my previous post, even though video projection is sharp, steady and scratchless it does not compare to a clean film projection. The colors and highlights are much superior in film. Here in PR the main theater chain is unwilling to go digital for one reason, it is too expensive to make the switch. I do not know the current price for a JVC projector, when I saw it at NAB a few years ago it was somewhere around $350,000 per unit. Now imagine a multiplex with 20 rooms... And still the average Joe would not see the difference. From a production standpoint I beleive that your average drama or comedy movie made or television can benefit from shooting in video at 24p. peace David On Jan 21, 2006, at 11:55 PM, feli wrote: > > On Jan 21, 2006, at 1:59 PM, bruce wrote: >> From what I had understood, talking to those actively involved in the >> "motion world", the norm is now to shoot in video, add all the >> effects via computer animation, and then return to film........... >> not only because the cinemas have the equipment, but because the >> quality of the projected image is much higher. This has been a moving >> trend over the last seven or eight years. >> >> B. > > \ > > Shooting analog still delivers the highest quality. > > There has been a good amount of production with HDTV tape system, that > is digitized and then shot out to film, but at the end of the day it > still looks like video. > > The real deal are systems like the Viper, or Arriflex D20 and > Panavision's system. > > These cameras generate uncompressed, high dynamic range footage of > extremely > high quality. They sill don't have the dynamic range of film, but are > close and almost > noiseless to boot. Again, the problem is the massive amount of data > that is generated, > the tethered hard disk system which the camera is plugged in to etc. > > Currently the state of the art is: > > Shoot film > > Scan film > > Digital intermediate (color timing) and visual effects > > Record back out to film and make prints or a digital format for > digital projection > > > Feli > > > ________________________________________________________ > feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 > www.elanphotos.com > > > NO ARCHIVE > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information