It also makes me wonder what the future of the form will be. Historically speaking we’re still at the very beginning of it.
Films are mostly post processed digitally - but some, like Oppenheimer, are color graded the old optical way. While Dune was shot digitally, printed on film, then scanned back in again!
Super 16 was one of the best formats. All the film schools had only 16 mm cameras, certainly not 35mm. And all the best revolutionary 70ies productions were shot on cheap 16mm in natural light. This changed with Spielberg and the new blockbuster approach, and then the depressing Reagan years when everybody went back into the studio with huge lighting efforts and psychological dramas.
Mumblecore and Dogma 95 brought back some pure 16mm with post blowup efforts (cinemas only had 35mm projectors then), but digital with the Arri Alexa and Red killed that. Next is better projector technology for cheap. The format and camera wars are over.
Lammy•3w ago
R.I.P. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rogge
I went ahead and mirrored this entire site, and his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MichaelRogge
croisillon•3w ago
and then there is Olive Riley (b. 1899) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Riley
dcminter•3w ago