I would agree with you un general, but Blade Runner 2049 is not a good example, il remember clearly the coat of Ryan gosling, the dresses, etc. This film is great for that, the lights, the sets design.
Comparing the two, you can really see how minimalist the modern stuff is. It has less texture, fewer details (buttons, collars), no patterns (at least from the blog post screenshots).
I think you could argue that some of this is just modern sensibilities and aesthetics, but I think a lot of it is probably just the modern movie industry. Like decisions with modern lighting and how flat things looks in modern movies (to make production more efficient and making adding CGI easier), they probably go with minimalist costumes since they're easier to capture on film, cheaper, and easier to make.
Yes, these lectures and the interviews by Dwarkesh are really interesting, i watched most of them, anyone know another podcast in the same style I can listen to ?
i think he's unique: he reads everything by the interviewee before sitting down with them, and has an uncannily casual familiarity with their arguments and reasoning
I used to own the scan he is talking about and various epson scanner, you cannot imagine the difference, Epson is fine and you are happy with it, then you see what an Hasselblad scanner can do for the same negative and for the rest of yout life you will think that Epsons are garbage.
I "used" to own it because it had some small hardware problems and i was unable to fix it or find someone who could repair it. I bought a digital back and never did film photography since.
You love the feel of your camera, its optics, and you don't want to throw away 20000 dollars? Pay a few thousand more and it's now a digital camera, everything else stays the same.
It takes a bit of rethinking since the shutter speed should be thought of as exposure speed since it is the speed at which the scanner moves - not the duration the shutter is open.
Has been made since the late 80s in various forms.
Phase One is the “premier” brand, with hasselblad closely following, then you have the defunct brands such as imacon, leaf, megavision (maybe around still), Sinar (around, part of Leica), Fuji made one, Rollei also made some. Dicomed made an actual 60mmx60mm one for a full frame 6x6 camera, still unique to this day.
I think in some film cameras, you can replace the part of the camera where film is exposed with a digital image sensor. Then you can use the same camera, but instead of exposing chemical-based film, you're recording digital images.
> I've been satisfied with Epson consumer grade scanners because I had no idea what I was missing.
Every time I meet someone who is expert in something I enjoy I have learned to tread carefully. It can often ruin perceptions - sure, it leads to a better result but it’s often very pricey.
Coffee, computers, networking, storage, backups, automation, tools, etc etc.
My life is a lot better and things a lot more reliable for the help I’ve had, but I’m poorer.
Others have already explained, but many medium format camera systems were made to be modular long before the advent of digital. The viewfinder, lens, or the bit at the back which holds the film could all be hot swapped if you wanted to switch to eg a waist level finder or different film.
I have a Nikon Coolscan 4000 from days of old. I was able to scan a 35mm at about 20 megapixels of data... and it fixed scratches and identified dust (my father has used it for the past several years to scan all of the old family photos - including those from his parents) and it works very well.
The big difference was in the amount of data in the blacks of a good slide film that you could pull out with a scanner. You can get a really wide dynamic range on the film by scanning it and pushing more or less light through it depending on the film.
There's also something... tangible or natural that film grain captures that I just don't feel with for digital.
For its time, 35mm + a good scanner was not something you could get near with digital cameras. The good DSLRs are there now for 35mm... and then I can argue with myself about the difference between the curves on film vs doing it in post in photoshop and the ease taking multiple photos vs getting one shot (or a bracket) and hoping and the cost of a good digital camera vs the cost of processing film... its arguments that you can see fought out in my camera bags.
And this is where I've scanned with an Epson scanner. I've got an older epson photo scanner. Its lid has a light in it (so it can transmit - and scan film). And it has a tray so that you can put 120 or 4x5 film in, secure it (without having it touch any of the glass and scratch) and scan a flat plane.
The thing I liked about film, was I knew what I was getting out of the box, and the images would largely take on the look I wanted based on my choice of film.
This is all true but consider that you are talking about b&w film and the author seems to be talking more about color, the chemistry of color film is different and this is another rabbit hole.
I agree, i'm a passionate photographer and i could pay good money to know that my pictures could be seen long time after my death.
Maybe startups exists that do this, but they will die, i need something with enough critical mass that i can trust.
That doesn't address the concern re: something needing critical mass to increase its chance of survival over a longer term.
Really the way I see it outside a few large banking firms, its kind of hard to be sure any provider of digital services would be around in the 50+ year term for this kind of public archive.
I hope the Internet Archive manages it.
EDIT: I do worry the IA has a bit of a lightning rod effect with skirting issues re: legality of archiving content. IMO its no guarantee it survives any significant time span either.
> Really the way I see it outside a few large banking firms, its kind of hard to be sure any provider of digital services would be around in the 50+ year term for this kind of public archive.
A library could do it. Perhaps leading institutions like the British Library or Library of Congress. I've thought that IA should be a Library of Congress project, and may eventually end up under their auspices.
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