I always hear people/actors/directors say, this tape or film is x meters long, it is this size, etc. do they really still use physical film? If so why aren’t they using terabytes of storage in a way more compact form?

  • crandlecan@mander.xyz
    69·
    8 months ago

    Analoge beats digital in quality.

    Edit: y’all have to take back them downvotes… You know I am right! 😤

    • bestusername
      94·
      8 months ago

      What is quality to you? The image size/resolution, the audio sample rate, the noise?

      There’s a point where the difference is imperceptible.

      I think it’s largely nostalgia behind replies like yours, analogue and digital are different, not a blanket better or worse.

          • bestusername
            1·
            8 months ago

            Well you’re definitely right about remastering/digitising old film…

            But if Star Wars was done on old DV, Lucas wouldn’t have been able to digitally butcher it, so there’s that.

            • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
              11·
              8 months ago

              I dunno. I feel like he would have tried if there had been the same amount of public dissatisfaction with the originals as there was with the prequels.

          • crandlecan@mander.xyz
            11·
            8 months ago

            Ergo, analogue for now still beats digital at the highest ends of the market. There’s no digital camera outperforming the analogue ones. I want some of them upvotes back!! 😤

      • crandlecan@mander.xyz
        24·
        8 months ago

        Sure… Nostalgia is what drives the movie studios… That’s why they still use analogue despite the superior results of digital, at lower total costs… 🤡!

    • accideath@lemmy.world
      21·
      8 months ago

      If we‘re talking IMAX, sure. No digital camera can reach that kind of resolution. But the standard 35mm film and even regular 70mm has been surpassed by digital cameras for a little while now, if we’re talking pure quality. Digital has higher resolution, higher dynamic range, higher sensitivity, etc.

      What analogue film has is a texture and a feel that digital cannot emulate. It’s not objectively better but subjectively, it’s nicer. It has a certain look. It’s like vinyl records. They’re objectively worse than the digital masters but many still prefer them.

      • njordomir@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 months ago

        I worked at a theater in high-school/college. I think it was Dark Knight, but at some point after going digital they brought back the film projector for certain shows and it was presented as a quality thing. I’m a super auditory person, so the thing that always stuck out to me in the IMAX was the sound. Those subs bump hard.

        Conversely, one of my worst experiences, subjectively of course, was HFR (high frame rate) movies. I think it was a LotR film, but it looked so weird that I couldn’t get lost in the story.