“We might as well call it: Cinema as we knew it is dead.
An article at the moviemaking technology website Creative Cow reports that the three major manufacturers of motion picture film cameras … have all ceased production of new cameras within the last year, and will only make digital movie cameras from now on.
What this means is that, even though purists may continue to shoot movies on film, film itself will may become increasingly hard to come by, use, develop and preserve. It also means that the film camera … will become to cinema what typewriters are to literature.”
Is this a bad thing? Matt Zoller Seitz doesn’t think so. Read why here.
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