Meet the Next Evolution in Digital Cinematography: the Alexa 35

[jess1581]

Still take film over digital no matter how much progress they make. Just more sterile, more lifeless.

[BorisKarloffice]

Originally Posted by jess1581

Still take film over digital no matter how much progress they make. Just more sterile, more lifeless.

The Batman and Dune part 1 both shot digitally and printed out to film and look gorgeous, especially The Batman.

Film is still nice for some projects but I think some directors and DPs cling to it for sentimental reasons and not because it makes their projects better. I mean on IMAX film the grain is so fine you can't see it anyway. 35mm and 16mm still have that magic look if you push them a stop or two to let the grain out but movies like The Batman are showing that even that can be "faked" in post very convincingly.

[-JKR-]

Originally Posted by BorisKarloffice

The Batman and Dune part 1 both shot digitally and printed out to film and look gorgeous, especially The Batman.

Film is still nice for some projects but I think some directors and DPs cling to it for sentimental reasons and not because it makes their projects better. I mean on IMAX film the grain is so fine you can't see it anyway. 35mm and 16mm still have that magic look if you push them a stop or two to let the grain out but movies like The Batman are showing that even that can be "faked" in post very convincingly.

I wish more directors would go through the process of printing the movies out on film in post.

But as with everything, some directors and DPs do incredible things even with digital, others will deliver something flat and sterile.

Film had the advantage of, even if the movie was on the flatter side, at least giving it that celluloid texture, colors and contrast.

If you're filming digitally on the cheap and without doing the right things, the risk is that it'll end up looking like a cellphone video.