Dunedain said:Yeah, Lucas was crazy to use a digital camera instead of real 35mm film for Episodes II and III. In doing so, he cut the resolution of those two prequels to around 1/4 of what The Phantom Menace has (that's a massive loss), plus there are other image quality deficiencies with an HD camera compared to a 35mm film camera.
Sometimes I think Lucas does things like this just to be on the "cutting edge", even if it gives inferior results. The problem is that newer is not always better, in this case, it's definitely not better.
Other than someone who is making a small budget independent movie where he just can't afford to use 35mm, everyone should be using film. And even if the guy can't afford 35mm, apparently it would be better to use 16mm film than go down to a digital camera. Zombie could offer more details, he's knows all about that stuff. :)
Yea its just so disappointing because the rest of the movie looks great.