Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Star Wars episode one was shot about 27 years ago, with the available technology of the time. Are you seriously using it as a standard for today's work? Jack Herron 8118 E. 20th St. Tucson, AZ 85710 520 885-6933 - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Bridge" <abridge@mac.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 5:20 PM Subject: Re: RE: RE: [Leica] squabbling over digitial vs. film. > On 2003-08-05 feli2@earthlink.net thoughtfully wrote: > > >Just because I haven't directed a feature doesn't mean I can't comment on his > >statement. I've worked on and supervised digital special effects for many > >feature films, so it's not like I'm a complete technical novice on the subject. > >HD is very good for what it is, but it runs into problems, when people try to > >make it something other than what it really is...look at Star Wars - Episode > >One. > >;-) > > But now you're talking about working entirely in the digital domain for > everything you do! > > I'm not sure what your point is about Star Wars - Episode One, though. I mean it > was a bad film, for sure and it's look has that "fx blur" that fudge all the > blending etc that has to be going on. I hope we are past that one although, I'm > afraid, it'll become a "look" that people will want to achieve rather than > avoid. Like being deluged with lens flare. > > Of course when we see a film shot in HD we aren't seeing it in its element - > we're seeing it in a transfer to film. I would like to see a fully digital > projection - but there isn't a house with one anywhere near me here in northern > California (that I know of.) > > When I talk to people who are working in HD they all say they have to learn the > nature of the medium because it's different from film, just as you say. It has > to be lighted differently, etc etc. > > But well shot, and people ARE shooting it very professionally, the results are > very very good. Not bad at all for a first-generation technology. > > I just hope, in the future, we break the evil tyranny of 24fps and push up past > 30 to 60fps where realism is substantially impacted by the high frame rate. But > even 30 is better than 24. > > Adam > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html