DISCONTINUTATION OF FUJIFILM

[NormLi]

I just ordered 88 rolls of Eterna 400T to shoot a 2-perf feature coming up!

 

[PatrickFaith]

Are there any very good dithering or rounding apps for processing media ? Quantel used have an algorithm or process called Dynamic Rounding which seemed to work in the days of 8bit SD. Seems to me that a very good plug in or transcoding for rounding bit depth is needed here.

What I've been doing is adding 70mm grain based on kodak 200t (not pushed) at half dynamic range of the grain to the b/w mono footage. This is giving me "organic" looking dithering. This approach seems to work across the different compression techniques used by varying distribution channels (since i don't control this process, atleast i can have a standard look across all channels). For software I am doing this with the nukex regrain node with a bunch of options and another nuke node, before i do my nuke output to file.

 

[Marc Wielage]

http://www.fujifilm.com/news/n130402.html and this reminds me then to all the pro's who said that this wouldn't ever happen,)

I worked at Kodak's Cinesite division from 2002-2004, and even then, all of us agreed that film would eventually come to an end. Me and a handful of other people gave it 10 years, so we were pretty close; I can think of some upper-level Kodak people who were sure it would be 20-25 years, and they were wrong.

 

[dio Zafi]

Film and Digital can survive together. Film is like painting with oil. It will never die.
Kodak and Red are both made in America. (Rare these days)
35mm film projected from DCP Really yummy!

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

Film diehards should die out--assuming developers step up. With sufficient dynamic range and color gamut a dead on perfect emulation should be possible from a digital capture. I'm hoping someone is running Fujifilm and Kodak through intense characterization analysis right now so that they never "die" just are reborn as a filter.

If you want film, great... capture reality--apply film filter.

 

[Bruce Allen]

Film diehards should die out--assuming developers step up. With sufficient dynamic range and color gamut a dead on perfect emulation should be possible from a digital capture. I'm hoping someone is running Fujifilm and Kodak through intense characterization analysis right now so that they never "die" just are reborn as a filter.

If you want film, great... capture reality--apply film filter.

I agree 100%.

The mistake is assuming that current digital camera RGB color filters are good enough.

But with sufficient spectral info, we should be able to nail the emulation.

But software developers often stop short. For example in music synthesis, we still don't have a 100% perfect emulation of a piano. We're only now beginning to correctly simulate the quirks of analog synthesizer circuitry! And it's the quirks that add character.

Anyway, yes! I'm a bit of a skeptic that folks will do this right, so I'm going to buy some rolls of Fuji just in case I have to end up doing it

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

 

[Marc Wielage]

But software developers often stop short. For example in music synthesis, we still don't have a 100% perfect emulation of a piano. We're only now beginning to correctly simulate the quirks of analog synthesizer circuitry! And it's the quirks that add character.

Yep, very true. Whenever people start talking about digital synthesis/motion capture of people, I always say, "so who's doing the talking?" They have yet to make a computer talk with the emotion and nuances of a human being.

Eventually, they will be able to do it. Carrying it to the ultimate extreme, eventually there will be no need for sets, actors, lights, or cameras of any kind: the entire movie will be digital. I'll be sad to see this happen, but there'll always be those who love it, because then it'll give the director absolute control of every detail of the image. Well, until the director​ is replaced by a computer...

 

[Nigel Stanford]

Film diehards should die out--assuming developers step up. With sufficient dynamic range and color gamut a dead on perfect emulation should be possible from a digital capture. I'm hoping someone is running Fujifilm and Kodak through intense characterization analysis right now so that they never "die" just are reborn as a filter.

If you want film, great... capture reality--apply film filter.

We like to think we have already built this