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- emorphien, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18you're
- xister, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Grammar, idiot... Bit of a misnomer ya got there, "Swifty"
- imacmike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@ pegisys
35mm film, if used properly, has an estimated resolution thats nearly three times what 1080 HD offers. Unfortunately, under lit scenes and use of cheap film stock can increase the appearance of grain on screen. - HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yeah, the silver will be out of films, except for the fact that silver is the main element in any kind of film (like photo film) because it is sensitive to light and changes color when exposed to it.
I wonder what kind of license fees Dolby charges for their "invention" of an LED optocoupler? - masgrada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Just wait till red comes out.
www.red.com - HungSquirrel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Cyan soundtracks are cheaper and more eco-friendly than traditional magenta soundtracks. I wonder why An Inconvenient Truth's prints came with magenta soundtracks? ;)
- derphilipp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I wonder: How many movies are "still" shot on regular Film? And how many are distributed digitally?
- bolerobell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@diggperson,
I think you underestimate digital photography in films.
Michael Mann, George Lucas, and Robert Rodriguez are all fully digital now. Mel Gibson used digital shooting in several scenes of Apocolypto (maybe even half the film).
While you are right to assert that Hollywood is still mostly film-based, there is a strong and growing segment of Hollywood that shoots digital and we aren't talking about the fringes here either. - imacmike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As a theatre projectionist, I wondered the same thing.
Also, cyan audio tracks have been shipping on many titles for over a year now. - imacmike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This article is in refrence to the hundreds of release prints shown in theatres, which are not in fact real film. They are made from a polyester base with CMYK dye layers printed onto it.
- Surfer51, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dumb article. Silver has long been used for health. Silver at prescribed dosages is non toxic to humans
http://www.biopulse.org/silver.html
http://www.doulton.ca/vol6-11dec76.html - anastrophe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the article has technical errors as well that are annoying to someone like me who worked in a film lab years ago (the same lab that processed negatives and made dailies for ILM back in that era).
from the article: " So silver was added to the colour film soundtracks to blot out unwanted noise. This involved many extra processing steps, and used toxic chemicals such as sodium hydroxide and hydroquinone. "
well, no. silver wasn't "added to" the colour film soundtrack. *all* film is laden with silver, edge to edge - it's how photography works. no silver, no image. what's done to the soundtrack is that - halfway through the processing cycle, before the silver is bleached out of the film, the film is fed out of the processing machine onto a short drying rack. after it has dried to a slight 'tack', a very thick developer is applied directly onto it in a narrow strip, right where the soundtrack is. a small steel wheel spins in a little bath of the developer and paints it right onto the film. the film rolls through a few more turns in the open air to give it time to develop, then the solution is sprayed off, and the film goes into the regular fixer, where the silver is stripped from the celluloid. yes, silver is stripped from the film - from all film. there's always going to be a small amount of silver left behind, but nearly all of it is removed and recovered. the very heavy development on the soundtrack strip means that there's proportionally more left behind in it. but it's still a very small amount....
hey, i found a photo of a soundtrack applicator - http://www.rtico.com/calder/standard.html - about 2/3rds of the way down the page.
yeah, i know. this is all so much old-tech cheese - moldy. oh well! - ywwg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3This is a stupid article because "the silver screen" refers to the color of the screen, not the chemicals in the film. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_screen)
- anastrophe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1uh, that's true, but when's the last time you ate film? the problem is silver in the effluent from processing. silver is great at killing bacteria. however, you *need* bacteria at the sewage treatment plant.
- masgrada, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Good job on pointing out the irony guys. Your pretty quick you'reselves.
/ joke - DrMic, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3nah, more likely a blue screen of death...
- neuromancerzero, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1cyan screen anyone?
- pegisys, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2even most TV shows are still using film
I think it's a shame really because film noise is terrible, especially now since HDTV is becoming more common - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -31/+3Your an idiot
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