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Topic: Cine fans or not?
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted July 21, 2013 05:48 PM
I's so strange the folks of today ...
Digital doesn't help any, as what most folks see in the movie theater may well look like film, may even have an "acceptable" amount of grain ect to the picture ....
But they are only paying top dollar in the movie theater to see a DVD on a big BIG screen and the funniest part of it, they are literally paying as much to go to the theater to watch that DVD (well, it's on a Hard Drive, but it's a DVD as far as I'm concerned), as they would pay for it actually on DVD, for sale in perhaps, oh, a few weeks to a few months?
Gimmie Cine any day of the week!!!!
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Paul Adsett
Film God
Posts: 5003
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted July 21, 2013 07:05 PM
Osi, Digital projection with blu ray is now so good at home that it takes something exceptional for me to want to go out to the cinema. I was watching the blu ray of Cleopatra last week on my 10ft scope screen, and the quality was staggering - certainly up to anything I would see at a multiplex, and much better comfort and cinema ambience. I think many people, who watch, and judge, DVD's and Blu Rays on large flat panel TV'S are really missing out. IMO there is no comparison between digital projection on a large home screen in a dark room, and a large flat panel TV with room lights on. I think home blu ray projection is now up to 35mm standards without question. None of which affects my love of the 'reel' film hobby.
-------------------- The best of all worlds- 8mm, super 8mm, 9.5mm, and HD Digital Projection, Elmo GS1200 f1.0 2-blade Eumig S938 Stereo f1.0 Ektar Panasonic PT-AE4000U digital pj
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Hugh Thompson Scott
Film God
Posts: 3063
From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted July 21, 2013 07:16 PM
Robert, just shows that there is no such thing as "common sense", Vidar, I share that opinion, as no doubt do many others, even if a film is past it's best, it can still be used as leader or tail, but not destroyed. Osi, I agree there, in a previous thread we spoke of the "drive in cinemas", which are a part of your culture, literally being systematically destroyed. I honestly believe that there ought to be some sort of preservation order placed on these institutions.The industry that is pushing for digital, does owe the hardworking folk that have put money in the Corporate pocket for decades., and should help pay for new screening equipment.
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Robert Crewdson
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1031
From: UK
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted July 22, 2013 07:18 AM
Steve, you could be right about home décor, Ihave seen 35mm reels turned into clocks. Unfortunately, you can't stop progress. At least we still have our equipment.
Hugh, I never waste film; when I was shooting super 8, even if the cartridge jammed, I saved the film and used it as leader, or more often on the tail, as some of those mountain prints weren't so generous at the end. I got a couple of 16mm features recently (B&W), in which the leader had been taken from a coloured print.
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