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Topic: New Section For Digital?
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Mark Todd
Film God
Posts: 3846
From: UK
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted August 03, 2015 07:48 PM
I`ll admit I`m not really sure why there seems to be, well it feels/sounds a bit like panic re film or digital. Its not an either or thing anyway. They go so well together.
Most people on here who mention digital are long term members fully grounded in film, and still are enjoying it, like myself. But who are enjoying the fantastic film watching opportunities LCD projection etc offers us now.
It wasn`t a bad idea to suggest a digital zone if you will, but Yak does very well too.
Picture qaulity now using digital is stunning, I find it very filmic via LCD projection and not at all sterile etc myself. But opinions vary of course.
I borrowed my sons high end NEC semi instalation LCD projector tonight, and although just WXGA and 4000 contrast it has image qaulities that are way beyond anything I`ve seen, and popping a few Blu Rays on tonight it looks so good you can`t imagine.
But its not film. For me watching real film is about the faddling on, the collecting, the feeling, the rewinding etc.
If all of that does it for you, then it does.
This is still a film forum, but I think some of us also want to chat about, and share whats also new, and interesting in the whole film arena Whether digital things, memorabilia, 4K etc, you name it, and I think it all adds to the forum and doesn`t threaten anything that this smashing little forum offers.
It may even be keeping the numbers up a bit.
Best Mark.
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Mark Todd
Film God
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From: UK
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted August 04, 2015 05:11 AM
Hi Winbert, a Vinyl and CD analogy is quite good here in the sense that both are different, and enjoyed for different and the same reasons and both also sit side by side and are each enjoyed for what they offer. they compliment each other.
I remember listening to a radio show and they had 3 members of a well known long established band on, who I forget the name of , and the idea was to listen to various types of music media etc.
They played segments from 3 different tracks, one CD, one on Vinyl, and one MP3, and on each set of 3 the band members decided which one they thought sounded the best and nicest overall.
Anyway they playeed the 3 clips of all the 3 tracks mixed in with a bit of chatting etc until they then looked at what they all chose.
They had all 3 chosen the same media type track on each of the 3 tunes/songs etc as it happens, that they thought was nicest.
They all assumed they had picked the Vinyl, or possibly maybe even the CD, but when it came to it they had all chosen the MP3 from each one of the tracks.
They had all liked the most compressed, digital or if you like most bits missing media, they thought had the overall nicest sound to all to thier ears.
It was an interesting show.
Best Mark.
PS I still collect vinyl ( its on a surge at the moment ), even odd new ones, though I notice now most new vinyl comes with a free digital download code. Good example how various formats work well together.
But my favourite music is when I sit down with my youngest son on his laptop and we watch/listen to all sorts of music, pop, rock, classic, old, new, obscure etc on youtube, great fun and probably the least and most varying qaulity of the lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4BUkOjxuZo
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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God
Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted August 04, 2015 10:00 AM
Mark, I am talking about the nature of a forum. If we set up a vinyl collectors forum than we are talking vinyls as well as a CD collectors forum we are talking CDs. If we set up a music forum, we can talk any format, regardless Vinyl, CD, MP3 or live music.
Now, this 8mm forum NOT a film forum, so we talk 8mm.
As simple as that.
Cheers,
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Winbert
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Rob Young.
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1633
From: Cheshire, U.K.
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted August 04, 2015 01:58 PM
Steve, you're one of the most sensible blokes here and with a truly great sense of humour.
If I've ever come across as being a "digital advocate", that is because, well, I can be. But with due caution.
I'm not sure who you are referring too 5 years ago, but I'll have a look back. No one likes a "know it all".
Certainly, amateur and professional status can make a big difference.
In my own world, things move so fast that I think I can never keep up; and I don't mean artistically, just financially which is a shame.
As we all know here, in the last few years, film projection has basically finished.
Only a couple of months ago a dear friend of mine, a cameraman I have known and respected for may years, informed me that his a son had lost his job as a projectionist.
This, despite training in the latest digital and IMAX formats.
He is only young and with a new family.
I wonder if we all feel a massive loss here that we can't explain.
Perhaps the loss of "film" is going deeper than just our own feelings here on the forum.
Maybe that is why such varied passions are arising?
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