INTERESTING POINT...

[Digigenic]

:arrow: THIS IS FROM AN ARTICLE IN THE APRIL 04 ISSUE OF VIDEOGRAPHY MAGAZINE.

:arrow: THE ARTICLE IS ON PAGE 28, ENTITLED "THE ONLY DIGITAL CAMCORDERS"

"A cinematographer is shooting film at 24 frames per second. A videographer is shooting 24p electronically. Which is shooting digitally?
In digital video, a frame is divided into a grid of scanning lines and picture elements (pixels). So is an imaging chip. Film, on the other hand, has a random pattern of photosensitive grain.
Digital, however, means numerical, reduced in its most basic form to just two digits: one and zero, on or off. The sensor sites on an imaging chip are analog. Increase the light by any amount (below the limit of the chip), and the analog signal leaving will increase appropriately. There is not yet such a thing as an all-digital video camera.
Film grains, on the other hand, are purely digital. They are either exposed or not. Shades of gray are achieved by using differing sizes of grain, requiring differing amounts of light to achieve the exposure threshold.
'Film or digital?' That makes no sense. Film is digital."

 

[cintellect]

An interesting article indeed. Perhaps advancements in technology can create a new hybrid format...

 

[DerekEastham]

While the article does make a good point... it misses the fact that "film" is a celluloid material and is exposed to light directly... where as the digital mediums record strictly 1's and 0's... so while the ideas behind celluloid are mirrored in digital, they are still an analog medium.

Just wanted to make sure no-one get's confused by the magazine's article.

 

[laurent.a]

True !

Digital means numeric (it comes from "digit" wich means "fingers" in latin, ie "to be numerically quantified"). A digital format is a format that processes information in a numeric (mathematical) way. Film doesn't translate information into numbers any how !

I'm afraid this is another way of trying to pretend that digital is better than film, pretending that film is digital is trying to include film in the digital field, like if it was superior to it. Even though, SO WHAT ?

 

[Digigenic]

:roll:

 

[laurent.a]

what d'you mean Jacob ?

 

[Digigenic]

8)

 

[sinjinza1984]

Interesting

Interesting

Film is not a digital format - I don't see it as analogue or digital. The film doesn't process a signal, it merely chemically responds to the light that is coming through the lens. Whereas, analogue and digital media process the light before it is turned into an image. By definition, film could not be digital, as the image is not sampled, quantisized, or then coded into the ones and zeroes that make up the binary code of a digital meida file. Film is also not strictly analogue, because the CCDs in an analogue camera also process the light to create a signal that is then converted into a magnetic equivalent that can be stored on a tape or other recording medium.