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Post #582978

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zombie84
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the death of film (again)
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Date created
25-Jun-2012, 4:24 PM

Half the time I can't even tell if something is digital these days. If I hadn't learned that Prometheus was shot digitally I would have never guessed. Once you know it's easy to say "oh, now I can see." But the truth is that digital cameras have the exact same lattitude as film cameras these days. That high-contrast, glossy look is what you find even on film productions. It's just a style, and it's been around a while. Transformers 3 doesn't look much different than Transformers 1, yet the original was an old-fashioned film production and the third was all-digital. The difference is often pretty minimal. Six years or seven years ago a good eye could tell, but now you can't really trust your eye because the film productions look like the digital ones much of the time.