This makes me sad. Even 35mm film is SO much better than any professional digital camera. Excepting the $30,000 bodies used by elite studios. Film lasts decades if even a modicum of care is given....
This makes me sad. Even 35mm film is SO much better than any professional digital camera. Excepting the $30,000 bodies used by elite studios.
Film lasts decades if even a modicum of care is given.
Digital only last as long as your storage does and you don't forget your passwords. Or till your cloud provider deletes it or goes belly up over night.
I work in film preservation and am also a techno optimist. I hear a lot of people arguing against digital formats because "film lasts a hundred years". But the latter is only true if stored...
I work in film preservation and am also a techno optimist. I hear a lot of people arguing against digital formats because "film lasts a hundred years". But the latter is only true if stored correctly. If you leave it in an attic with lots of humidity and varying temperature, it will degrade. Most films from the past have disappeared, due to degradation.
The same is true for digital, you have to take care of it and follow industry standards. Banks and health institutions have managed to preserve data for multiple decades, and will continue doing so. Archives are catching up, and the computer industry is working hard on finding a long term, migration-free solution to storage. Technicolor for example is working on encoding films into DNA.
So, while it is indeed sad to see film cameras go, I don't agree with the storage point. Quality-wise one can also argue that certain sensors now have a higher resolution and higher dynamic than 35mm film — at a greatly increased sensitivity.
I understand that aspect of film. I spent five years learning photography. But I'm also an Enterprise level Systems Admin and trained on NetApp storage. Been to a few conferences. It's scary how...
I understand that aspect of film. I spent five years learning photography. But I'm also an Enterprise level Systems Admin and trained on NetApp storage. Been to a few conferences. It's scary how "fragile" cloud storage is. The industry knows it and avoids mentioning it.
One thing that's going away is "prints" left at theaters. Since they're all digital now, and time coded, theaters can't just save prints to be used later or be found years later in a vault and used. That's one way digital is "bad".
This makes me sad. Even 35mm film is SO much better than any professional digital camera. Excepting the $30,000 bodies used by elite studios.
Film lasts decades if even a modicum of care is given.
Digital only last as long as your storage does and you don't forget your passwords. Or till your cloud provider deletes it or goes belly up over night.
I work in film preservation and am also a techno optimist. I hear a lot of people arguing against digital formats because "film lasts a hundred years". But the latter is only true if stored correctly. If you leave it in an attic with lots of humidity and varying temperature, it will degrade. Most films from the past have disappeared, due to degradation.
The same is true for digital, you have to take care of it and follow industry standards. Banks and health institutions have managed to preserve data for multiple decades, and will continue doing so. Archives are catching up, and the computer industry is working hard on finding a long term, migration-free solution to storage. Technicolor for example is working on encoding films into DNA.
So, while it is indeed sad to see film cameras go, I don't agree with the storage point. Quality-wise one can also argue that certain sensors now have a higher resolution and higher dynamic than 35mm film — at a greatly increased sensitivity.
I understand that aspect of film. I spent five years learning photography. But I'm also an Enterprise level Systems Admin and trained on NetApp storage. Been to a few conferences. It's scary how "fragile" cloud storage is. The industry knows it and avoids mentioning it.
One thing that's going away is "prints" left at theaters. Since they're all digital now, and time coded, theaters can't just save prints to be used later or be found years later in a vault and used. That's one way digital is "bad".