A Visual Analog

[W9TR]

I’ve been intrigued by many posts here that compare the perceptual characteristics of the technologies we use to enjoy recorded music. Tubes, Solid State, Class A DHT, Class AB, Class D, vinyl, R2R, digital in its many forms. The list goes on. The arguments regarding the fidelity of different formats and the electronics we use to reproduce them seem to as well.

You’ll be happy to know that the same arguments apply to visual media. This is an interesting read:

Why Film Photography is Better than Digital — Nice Notes

Today we take on one of the most contentious topics and brace for incoming hostility. I’m sure everyone has a purist friend who only shops local, shoots film, and has the one hat that’s objectively way to small for their head. I’m not here to scoff at your digital setup while I smoke a hand rolled c

www.notes.nicefilmclub.com

I recently read this article about Christopher Nolan’s filming of The Odyssey. He shot it in IMAX 70mm film. He explains why at the end of the article. I’m sharing it as a gift article - don’t know what hoops you need to go through to read it.

Christopher Nolan on the Anxiety of Filming ‘The Odyssey’ in IMAX

Filming entirely in IMAX meant new engineering and actor ingenuity. It was only halfway through the six-country shoot that he felt he could pull it off.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Michaels HiFi]

Thanks for sharing.

It's telling that in the video field there are so many plugins that attempt to replicate not only the look of analog, but they even attempt to mimic exact certain kinds of film.

I've found when I use my cine camera I get the most organic look using vintage analog lenses over any modern or cine lenses. There is an entire sub-group of cine creators using vintage Zeiss, Leica and others 40 year old SLR lenses on video.

 

[W9TR]

It’s the same reason I’m using a German ISCO Panamorphic lens on my new theater. By any technical measure it can’t improve the image but subjectively it does. It’s got that certain Zeiss Schneider look.