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> Our iPhone or Android cameras rival what Panavision was providing in the 80’s. Can you imagine if Kevin Smith had a reasonably modern phone, a semidecent PC,

> Our iPhone or Android cameras rival what Panavision was providing in the 80’s. Can you imagine if Kevin Smith had a reasonably modern phone, a semidecent PC, and a copy of Resolve when he started out? Of course, that's happening, except it's not Kevin Smith, it's some other snotty kid whose name will become associated with cult cinema in a few years. They're still in their backyard making daft wee movies with their friends and sticking them on Tiktok, and one day you're going to be buying a ticket to their film. > I just returned from Borneo where I was mostly using Sony RX-10 prosumer cameras. I carried 4 RX-10 bodies and never missed a shot. Even at that there were (in the early 2000s!) real proper feature films shot on standard-def DV, including one of my favourites, 24 Hour Party People. Every time GAS starts to bite I look at my Sony DSR-PD150 and think "you know what, if it was good enough for the guy that did Open Water or Super Size Me, I ought to be able to get by with it" :-D

khazhoux 4y ago
> one day you're going to be buying a ticket to their film. “What are ’tickets’, Grandpa?”
- Gordonjcp 4y ago
  It'll come back round again. My toddler runs around waving one of my old Gopro-knockoffs about shouting "CAMERA! CAMERA!", wearing it on a strap round his neck, holding it with both hands, and peering down at it like he's looking into the viewfinder of a TLR. Wonder if that's epigenetics from his grandfather, who was well into his Rolleiflexes? Anyway when he's a teenager everything will be shot in Willam-Gibson-esque neural stimulation implants by actors with Zeiss Ikon eyes shooting 30720x17280 240p, and he and his mates will be running around the woods with an old banger Arri Alexa 35 "because you just don't get the same organic quality in 32K that you do with these old 4K cameras, it's just got so much more life", same as we did with 16mm and VHS. Going to see a film on a huge screen with a hundred other folk will be just this incredible oldschool vintage thing, people dressing in authentic 20s fashions for the occasion. And everything old will be new again, just like it was last year and the year before.
trynewideas 4y ago
> it's some other snotty kid whose name will become associated with cult cinema in a few years. They're still in their backyard making daft wee movies with their friends and sticking them on Tiktok, and one day you're going to be buying a ticket to their film. So basically Joel Haver: https://youtu.be/czlXuKfPI6U?t=277 https://youtu.be/czlXuKfPI6U?t=277

khazhoux 4y ago

> one day you're going to be buying a ticket to their film. “What are ’tickets’, Grandpa?”

Gordonjcp 4y ago
It'll come back round again. My toddler runs around waving one of my old Gopro-knockoffs about shouting "CAMERA! CAMERA!", wearing it on a strap round his neck, holding it with both hands, and peering down at it like he's looking into the viewfinder of a TLR. Wonder if that's epigenetics from his grandfather, who was well into his Rolleiflexes? Anyway when he's a teenager everything will be shot in Willam-Gibson-esque neural stimulation implants by actors with Zeiss Ikon eyes shooting 30720x17280 240p, and he and his mates will be running around the woods with an old banger Arri Alexa 35 "because you just don't get the same organic quality in 32K that you do with these old 4K cameras, it's just got so much more life", same as we did with 16mm and VHS. Going to see a film on a huge screen with a hundred other folk will be just this incredible oldschool vintage thing, people dressing in authentic 20s fashions for the occasion. And everything old will be new again, just like it was last year and the year before.

trynewideas 4y ago

> it's some other snotty kid whose name will become associated with cult cinema in a few years. They're still in their backyard making daft wee movies with their friends and sticking them on Tiktok, and one day you're going to be buying a ticket to their film. So basically Joel Haver: https://youtu.be/czlXuKfPI6U?t=277 https://youtu.be/czlXuKfPI6U?t=277