Sunday, July 05, 2009

Dawn Treader shot in Digital by Rebekah Walton

I was very uncomfortable when I learned of this. I like the 35mm film better. One of the Crew on Dawn Treader mentioned it in this interview:

Q: Why not go with a digital camera you’d already used? Why did you decide on the Sony F23 for Public Enemies?

Spinotti : Michael [Mann] likes depth of field, images with deep focus, and that camera has a chip that’s more like 16mm that gave us that depth of focus. It’s the same reason why I chose the same camera for the film I am going into now, The Chronicles of Narnia. The depth of field works in our favor. The camera also has an advantage in the sense that it is much more elastic. You can adjust gamma curves and gain for incredible control over the image. You can also shoot much bigger energy in the sense that you can have a zoom lens and the camera can move around in a quicker way.

What I think:I know some films have been made and looked good with digital but it just makes me uncomfortable that they are changing so much when the 35mm looked fine with the two previous movies.

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