Ridiculous Invention I'd like to see

[nikon76]

a prosumer camera made for filmmaking where, instead of a regular digital sensor, a continuously looping piece of choice filmstock acting as the sensor that captures the image, immediately writes it to hd and then erases and re-grabs the image on the freshly regenerated film. A piece of film that constantly regenrates and prints in-camera so everything can be shot with film but no cannisters and no expensive processing.

All the post color can be tweaked within software after the files written to HD are exported from the camera.

Any filmstock can be used, and each piece of looped regenerating film lasts about 30 hrs of usage.

[chip75]

Have you tried Maplin? It should be in-between the time machines and customizable sex-bots ...

[huntauk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwqYOp1PLpU

[Sky_Captain]

Any reason you feel compelled to drop these threads in the UK forum?

[nikon76]

Originally Posted by Sky_Captain

Any reason you feel compelled to drop these threads in the UK forum?

Look man, if I posted in the wrong section, I apologize. I will make an effort to be more uniform with my topics. Not a problem. And you can go right ahead and block me, please. I'm not posting viruses, OK. I'm just trying to communicate ideas and the like. Trying to start convo. Please forgive me, I don't know what I was thinking.

This is a very discouraging forum with a lot of very excitable people who spend a lot of time policing people.

Not me. Just block me.

[David M]

Originally Posted by nikon76

a prosumer camera made for filmmaking where, instead of a regular digital sensor, a continuously looping piece of choice filmstock acting as the sensor that captures the image, immediately writes it to hd and then erases and re-grabs the image on the freshly regenerated film. A piece of film that constantly regenrates and prints in-camera so everything can be shot with film but no cannisters and no expensive processing.

All the post color can be tweaked within software after the files written to HD are exported from the camera.

Any filmstock can be used, and each piece of looped regenerating film lasts about 30 hrs of usage.

That's bizarrely brilliant.

Although I think a digital imager with realistic simulation of film grain and weave would be more cost effective!

[benricci]

Remind me why this is in a forum dedicated to UK blu-ray releases?

[HotRats]

Not sure why you'd even bother with film that can magically be erased when Canon already has a 250mp sensor which coupled with an 800mm lens and Canon's Turbulence Removal can show a woman waving on the Eiffel Tower viewing deck from 1.9 miles away and read building signs from 9 miles. This is 30 times 4k resolution

[Aladinsane]

Because film is more aesthetically pleasing (atleast to my eyes) than a supremely powerful digital camera? Film grain wins over super sharp and crisp digital any day of the week. Not to say that i endorse this "ridiculous invention".

[nikon76]

Originally Posted by HotRats

Not sure why you'd even bother with film that can magically be erased when Canon already has a 250mp sensor which coupled with an 800mm lens and Canon's Turbulence Removal can show a woman waving on the Eiffel Tower viewing deck from 1.9 miles away and read building signs from 9 miles. This is 30 times 4k resolution

No a fan of the French New Wave.

[chip75]

Originally Posted by Lyris

That's bizarrely brilliant.

Although I think a digital imager with realistic simulation of film grain and weave would be more cost effective!

A camera that scanned the film seconds after it was shot would be useful, but I can imagine film makers getting nervous when they think they're erasing a scene they shot a few seconds ago on to a hard drive you'd want multiple back-ups for safety. The big issue is once you've scanned your film it's digital anyway so you're only cutting out the middleman, creating a new technology to get you to the same place.

If you could invent a film that could be reused then you'd be on to something, you could have a few reels on the go at one time whilst the others were been refreshed, but it would have to be durable.

[nikon76]

Originally Posted by chip75

A camera that scanned the film seconds after it was shot would be useful, but I can imagine film makers getting nervous when they think they're erasing a scene they shot a few seconds ago on to a hard drive you'd want multiple back-ups for safety. The big issue is once you've scanned your film it's digital anyway so you're only cutting out the middleman, creating a new technology to get you to the same place.

If you could invent a film that could be reused then you'd be on to something, you could have a few reels on the go at one time whilst the others were been refreshed, but it would have to be durable.

Yeah, something durable and one powerful and open lens, too.

It'd be a bit more than cutting out the middleman, it'd be saving mondo cash on film stock since it'd just be a tiny piece of regenerating film that constantly loops. But it is just so ridiculous, Ricky Riccardo couldn't even properly comment on it.

As far as anxiety about erasing a scene on film, the filmmaker would have to make sure to get safety shots for sure.