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Wired: On Red Digital Cinema

In the new Wired Magazine article “Analog Film Meets Its Match in Red Digital Cinema’s Ultrahigh-Res Camera” they cover the development of the ground breaking Red One, and the ongoing debate among filmmakers over digital cinematography.

…In the slammin’, jammin’ world of production, you want a really tough machine that takes very simple approaches to problems,” Steven Lighthill of the American Film Institute says. “I’m not sure Red is the way to go. It’s a supercomputer with a lens on it.”

Proponents dismiss such criticism as Luddite drivel. “Hollywood is just used to shooting on film,” says Bengt Jan Jönsson, cinematographer on the Fox TV show Bones. “Honestly, if you proposed the film work-flow today, you’d be taken to the city square and hung. Imagine I told you we’re going to shoot on superexpensive cameras, using rolls of celluloid made in China that are a one-time-use product susceptible to scratches and that can’t be exposed to light. And you can’t even be sure you got the image until they’re developed. And you have to dip them in a special fluid that can ruin them if it’s mixed wrong. People would think I was crazy

— Wired | Read The Full Article

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