Sorry, but this argument is nonsense.
CGI, colour grading and digital cameras aren't "ruining movies". All those tools can be used well.

What's ruining movies is dumb scripts and bad filmmaking.

I'll have to see how this is possible when they publish a paper about it (the linked article isn't very technical). I'm only skeptical because light is faster than electrons, and any kind of digital camera needs electrons to move around...

He was pointing out how the digital cameras they are using tended to show everything in that flat low contrast manner, but that you could fix it in editing, but that would also mean more time and money. The newer cameras are able to film scenes with brighter colors and higher contrasts right out of the box and eliminates the need for extra editing, if that is the reason they went in that direction in the first place.

It makes me wonder if they went with the muted tones to give the films a more serious feel to them, possibly making the non nerd segment of movie going America more comfortable with them.

Depending on how you use batteries, this can be an extremely useful test that doesn't require any additional tools.

I'm generally not in the habit of using a battery a little bit, then removing it from whatever device and putting it back into storage. I put batteries in things and use them until they don't have enough charge to power those things. Sometimes "dead" in a high drain device (digital camera, shaver) can still provide enough juice to power a low-drain device (clock), but the majority of the time I use them until they are ready to be thrown away.

When you've got 8 batteries in a pile, 4 that you know are brand new and 4 that you just took out of some device that has exhausted their charge, the bounce technique works extremely well for figuring out which is which if you weren't paying attention and got them mixed up.

Here's the camera: http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Nikon-Products/Product/Compact-Digital-Cameras/COOLPIX-P900.html

I love film, and always did, but even the cameras in high end modern phones will beat the old compact 35mm cameras every time for image quality. This doesn't mean I won't take out my compact 35mm camera (Olympus mju II btw) and use it occasionally, but for a quick snapshot I'll cheerfully use my phone.

Phone cameras are not quite ready to take on 6x6 rollfilm cameras (I love my tlr too ) but digital cameras do exist which can.

A final thought - sometimes the best camera is the one you have with you

Even then. Take a selection of equivalently priced film and digital cameras (adjusted for inflation) and give them to a range of photographers.

I'd bet large amounts of money that aside from the very top tier photographers using top tier SLRs, digital will beat film every day.

Good points, but I meant 'automatic' film cameras of today VS 'automatic' digital cameras of today. All other things being equal, film will give better quality than any but the best professional digitals, but even new film cameras are more expensive and bulky for the same features...+ film, + developing, + prints.

Hmmm. Debatable. Film is sort of "analog", so a good film picture can be blown up / magnified much more than a digital picture before it would look muddy/pixely. On the other hand, for anyone outside of professional photographers, getting a good digital picture is MUCH easier than getting a good film picture. I remember average-to-cheap film cameras that had to be focused, needed just the right light, no motion in the subject, etc. whereas even cheap digital cameras tend to auto-adjust to that stuff much better.

No Photo Fluid!!!
This is the Devil Camera!
Just AWESOME!

(He didn't tell them that the quality could be way better than any digital camera though, not that they would care)

Wedding photography used to be such a pain in the ass-Now all you need is one decent digital camera and a computer.

I still have a Canon PowerShot 1000s that my dad/father/pa used as the first family digital camera. I rarely take pictures so it is OK for me.

I work at one of those places! I'm one of the people who physically puts the order in the boxes (which, btw, I have to make each box myself. they don't come pre-made like I'm some namby-pamby).

It's pretty eye opening what people will put in a single order. The one that has made me the most uncomfortable would have to be a copy of the new testament, a children's book, and a penis pump. the straight-up strangest order I ever fulfilled was an instruction book on bondage knots, a copy of Mein Kampf, and a digital camera. the camera just changed it from strange to straaaaaange.

>> ^messenger:

We've had digital cameras that shoot when the subject smiles for at least five years, so why can't a mech shoot guns when the pilot smiles?


It's doable. The problem is that it's a terrible idea.

We've had digital cameras that shoot when the subject smiles for at least five years, so why can't a mech shoot guns when the pilot smiles?