my understanding is that movie film sales volumes are mostly driven by the
distribution side, i.e. the prints that are sent to theaters. Kodak
themselves estimate that by 2007, total movie film sales will start a
permanent decline as digital distribution and projection start to take over.
there was a discussion on the Fred Miranda Nikon forum by one of the techies
who worked on The Corpse Bride. he described their workflow for using Canon
1D Mk2s with Nikon lenses to shoot the stop motion animation, and then a
huge RAW rendering farm running a custom tuned version of dcraw to resample
and generate output that matched their favorite movie film. everything was
done in batch and GUI applications were ruled out.
Herb....
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By the way, from what I've read the cinematographers are not yet moving to
digital in droves. Digital movie cameras apparently can't take advantage
of RAW as can the still shooters, so exposure latitude suffers. Remember,
a movie camera has to be capable of recording at least 100 frames per
second when needed (although most work is shot at about 30 fps). That
takes some serious processing speed if you're shooting digital. But the
newest digital cameras are a huge improvement over the previous offerings,
so it's probably just a matter of time.
