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> People complain about the way high-frame-rate cameras look cheap. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, especially regarding aesthetics. But this is pretty
by tshaddox 4y ago
> People complain about the way high-frame-rate cameras look cheap.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, especially regarding aesthetics. But this is pretty much the same sort of complaint that I was criticizing. You can have a genuine steadfast aesthetic preference for black and white films, or silent films, or SD digital video, but I disagree with extending that to anything of the form “technology X is undesirable because it makes films more realistic and films are not supposed to be realistic.”
- jfengel 4y agoI'd say it's not so much that "films are not supposed to be realistic" as that films simply aren't realistic. Any additional change to make them more "realistic" is really an aesthetic choice, which may or may not work for people. People liked some things, like talkies. And they rejected other things, like 3D. I could come up with an after-the-fact rationalization for why some things worked and some didn't, but it's pretty much impossible to tell beforehand.