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On 29/05/2014 16:44, Whisky-dave wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 19:44:02 UTC+1, Joe Kotroczo wrote:
On 27/05/2014 14:44, Whisky-dave wrote:

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I wonder if that's why they are recording the new star wars movie on film.

well I doubt they'd be using a SD card but perhaps the data rate is just too high to be practical.



No. They shoot on film to achieve a certain look.

A certain look is that it, a look that they can't use an effect or filter for is that it ? I just hope it's not the special grain/canvas look they used on the last 4-5 seasons of Battlestar Galatica, it looked really crap on upscalled DVD players.

Most of that was shot on Sony F900 and F950 camera in HDCAM.

So: no.

Digital cinema has a
range ways to deal with high data rates. SSD, RAID, etc. It's not really
an issue other than cost. And Star Wars have enough budget to shoot
whatever format they want.

If it's not cost there must be another reason and I'm not convinced by the 'look' idea.

http://www.indiewire.com/article/10-reasons-why-filmmakers-should-shoot-film-according-to-kodak

http://www.motion.kodak.com/motion/Customers/Productions/index.htm

The top grossing movie of all time was shot on digital and won a "Best
Cinematography" Oscar. Here's a list of movies shot using Red digital
cinema cameras: http://www.red.com/shot-on-red?genre=All. And anybody
who thinks that digital is only for high end movies needs to see
"Monsters", which had a $500,000 budget. Anybody who thinks that there's
a technological obstacle to making feature movies using digital just
hasn't been paying attention.