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Who has "Changed Everything"

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Someone mentioned QuickTime?
 
Hi Scott, wish I had mentioned Kino Flo in my list; they sure changed my life for the better. I haven't tripped a breaker or set a house (or actor) alight in years!

Good shooting and best regards,

Leo
 
I think the iphone and many other mac products.

Avatar for film experience (with a long ist of predecessors)

NASA?
 
Some things off the top of my head:

Flexible base for film, leading to 35mm movie film and then to 35mm still photography.

The Brownie camera, creating the amateur photography craze.

The optical printer.

3-strip Technicolor / dye transfer printing.

Kodachrome, a single-pack 3-color process.

Sound movies.

Magnetic tape recording.

Cinerama, kicking off the widescreen (and large screen) revolution.

The Panaflex & Arriflex-BL, the start of the lightweight self-blimped 35mm sound cameras.

The flying-spot telecine.

Digital scanning / laser recording combined with electronic / digital compositing more or less killed the optical printer for visual efx.

Personal computers obviously...

Digital video.

The Sony HDW-F900, the first 24P HD camera (followed a year or two later by the Panasonic Varicam, the first multiple frame rate HD camera.)

The Panasonic DVX100, the first 24P DV camera.

The Thompson Viper, the first LOG, semi-RAW, HD camera.

The Dalsa Origin, the first 4K RAW single-sensor 35mm digital camera.

Digital intermediates.

The Sony SRW1 HDCAM-SR recorder, allowing portable 10-bit 4:4:4 HD recording.

Portable data recorders such as those by S-Two and Codex.

Advanced compression techniques.

File-based image acquisition and post-production.

Panasonic's P2 cameras, advancing the move beyond videotape and into file-based acquisition.

The Panavision Genesis, the first practical 35mm single-sensor HD camera. The ARRI D20 appears somewhere around this time too.

The Red One, the first practical 4K RAW single-sensor 35mm camera. And it's affordable -- the sheer volume of sales and users has pushed file-based acquisition and post years ahead.
 
Leo Ticheli said:
Ask the film transfer guys and girls who are now seeking employment in the child-care and food-service industries if the Red camera is revolutionary.

Film may not be dead, but it's certainly not feeling well.

Good shooting and best regards,

Leo
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Strange, because Deluxe and Technicolor here in Toronto seem to be doing just fine.
 
Not directly relevant, but I've always thought Nikola Tesla's thoughts on wireless communication and the like are really being realized in a world where I can wirelessly stream 1080p to a TV anywhere in my house.
 
Mark Collins said:
Strange, because Deluxe and Technicolor here in Toronto seem to be doing just fine.
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Perhaps they are doing alright in Toronto Mark but across the board Leo is right. They're hurting and I suspect it will get worse.

BTW Cut my teeth on the The RCA TK76 and Ikagami 79A. Two great SD ENG cameras.
I would add Alias-Wavefront Power animator (SGI) and Maya, which made the jump to windows, to the list.
 
Subhadip Sen said:
As a direct answer to the question, DW Griffith.
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Nope. He was a thief. He sent spies to Europe and stole ideas from amateur filmmakers. The invention of the close-up for which the thief known as DW Griffith is credited was in fact developed by a group of filmmakers in Brighton, England.


I can't believe no one has mentioned George Eastman; roll film was pretty revolutionary in its day...
 
Kodak M24 Super 8 camera
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cause it made me a film maker at ten years old
 
lectricity boys - to power all of these toys.

Electricity is a commodity that all take for granted.

Just remember how it is generated and how much you pay for it.

If it were gone tomorrow then most of us would be out of a job.
 
1980s:

VHS.

You could decide yourself what you saw where and when.

1990s:

miniDV.

For the first time newstarters could afford to buy a camera that would produce broadcast quality images, and edit it on their laptop.

2000s:

RED came along and did the same with cinema-quality equipment.

As far as the 2010s go,

So far it is the iPhone — you can shoot, edit and distribute in HD.

But the really amazing developments will be in sensor technology and computational photography. And of course technologies that haven't even been thought of yet.

(A honorable mention should go out to GPS for taking the stress out of finding shooting locations in unknown areas.)
 
Youtube - it has completely changed the way people access video and can broadcast almost anything to a mass audience.

and on a broader note.... the internet. It has played a huge role in letting us educate, promote and showcase ourselves.
 
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