You're talking about prints. This film is a negative film intended for
recording the original images. For most uses, the negative is
transfered to digital rather than printed on a positive. Even when a
positive is needed for distribution it's made from the digital
transfer, not from the negative.
Paul
On Nov 1, 2005, at 8:17 PM, Herb Chong wrote:
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.
