[Leica] Blow-up, the movie.

[philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)]

Even if I'm a strong believer of the advantages of the digital realm, I
don't think it will come that far, just because it will take more time to
construct a digital reproduction than to shoot it. Parts of the images,
maybe, but not the entire picture. And as for the low wage countries theory,
with all due respect, and just coming back from a film shoot in South
Africa, it will take those countires at least a few decades to catch up with
the standards we're used to.
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> From: "Jim Shulman" <jshul@comcast.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:25:22 -0400
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Blow-up, the movie.
> 
> Enjoy the remaining romance while we can.  In five or ten years they won't
> even need models.  The objects to be included in the final image will be
> photographed/scanned.  Graphic artists will construct the model from a 
> stock
> library of body components, animate to a desired position, build the
> background and related props, and click "save".  No strung-out artistes, no
> temper tantrums, no late shoots, no big fees.  Since it's all electronic,
> that means a trained professional in some low-wage country can do the 
> entire
> project for less than the catering bill of an old-fashioned shoot.
> 
> On the other hand, in a fully computerized world there's no action after 
> the
> shoot.
> 
> Jim Shulman
> Bryn Mawr, PA
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
> Slobodan
> Dimitrov
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 11:10 AM
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] Blow-up, the movie.
> 
> It's finally been released in widescreen on DVD this year. I couldn't help
> but get the sense of a world long disappeared which won't be back, ever.
> Some of the stock and work horse images of the photographer in his studio
> seem so distant and alien now.
> The screen and keyboard, being central to the modern studio, just doesn't
> lend itself to the romanticism displayed in the film.
> S. Dimitrov
> 
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