I love film and I love digital...why don't we keep them both around, ha.
Even though as an artist I can say this, the people who manufacture the film stock and the CCD or CMOS sensors will not utter such a phrase, because their main objective is to provide products that will be the most cost effective. And from the looks of it, the manufacturers are going to side with digital. Some already have in an alarming way, take a look at Kodak for instance, 14,000 jobs gone; film go bye-bye.
Again, I love film, I've always admired it's rich and beautiful textures...but now, so much of what we see in film utilizes the DI process to achieve such quality imagery. Digital is showing promise one way or another...we'll just have to be thankful that for the moment we still have a choice between the two. I think it's funny how people battle over it though.
I'll say this, about 10 years into the future, for sure 20, give or take a few years, nobody will have the same luxury of choice we had, because digital or a form of media that is even more remarkably immediate will be the only choice. And believe me, as we progress deeper into the rapid currents of a technologically driven society, immediacy will be the only result that one expects from anything, especially if it’s expected to entertain.
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