Things DPs Don't Talk About | Filmmaker Magazine https://filmmakermagazine.com Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources. Mon, 10 Apr 2017 22:30:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 The F Word: Five Reasons Film Is Still Relevant in a Digital World https://filmmakermagazine.com/102092-the-f-word-five-reasons-film-is-still-relevant-in-a-digital-world/ https://filmmakermagazine.com/102092-the-f-word-five-reasons-film-is-still-relevant-in-a-digital-world/#respond Thu, 13 Apr 2017 15:00:27 +0000 https://filmmakermagazine.com/?p=102092

I’ll be honest. I’d all but written film off, except for the few rolls that live in my Pen-F and my Mamiya RB67. In the days of the original RED, the Viper and VariCam, sure, video was a compromise. Those Kodak ads made sense. But now shooting a movie or a commercial on an ALEXA Mini shooting in ARRIRAW — I don’t feel that way anymore. The images are great. Better than great — they’re hard to break, and they grade well. And as film has faded from the independent-moviemaking scene, I can’t emphatically say I feel like I’ve lost something […]

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