For 16mm homemovie making seperate sound-recorders based on the compact-cassette were available. They had special features to yield synchronicity between sound and image.
Yeah, thats OK if your into movie production, but for a few home movies i would make, its not convenient. I dont know how you could synchronise when being projected either. if you were scanning it to digital that would be easier, but defeats the whole purpose of using my projector.
If only magnetic sound film was still available, if ferrania could pull this off, it would be a big deal to the film community.
For 16mm homemovie making seperate sound-recorders based on the compact-cassette were available. They had special features to yield synchronicity between sound and image.
Wow... all this discussion about 16mm movie film. I never would've guessed it was so popular. I'm only interested in 120 roll, 4x5 and 8x10.
Well ive just started to get into 16mm, mainly to watch films and features, ive bought an Eiki projector, but thought it would be great to make my own 16mm movies, ive only shot in super8 up till now.
Im hoping Ferrania can make shooting film more accessible, as i would love to shoot more.
I intended no criticism... none at all. All the interest in 16mm just surprised me.
Wow... all this discussion about 16mm movie film. I never would've guessed it was so popular.
+1
I learned non linear video editing nearly two decades ago (who remembers the Video Toaster?). It seemed then that 8mm was long dead and 16mm only used by documentary work where they really cared about quality. Everyone was either digital video or full on 35mm.
But where to show a 35mm copy? That is the new problem.
ARRI has already launched a digital cine camera with a sensor whose size is bigger than the 65mm frame size...
Over here 16mm is long gone at TV-productions.
Another off-topic question. I'm curious, has IMAX gone all digital or is it still film?
Using Hasselblad HC lenses, no less (says FAQ here).
Panavision also have a 65mm digicam. I think the saddest part is the quote from here:
"Eventually film may disappear completely, so having a camera that can match that quality is going to fill a need."
In short, even just the rumours of the death of 65mm cine film were enough to spur on the R&D guys to create 65mm digital sensors. And the irony is that in creating said digital sensors they're only going to hasten the death of 65mm film too (if it weren't already all-but-dead).
That didn't really happen with 35mm and dslrs, in the beginning a lot (esp kodak) were adamant that film would remain as the higher-quality medium forever, until the inevitable happened (although it maybe took 10-15 years for digital quality to be as good as film).
Now the 35mm market has pretty much bottomed out, those of us still shooting film are the ones that are going to keep doing so despite whatever digital advancements are made.
I'd guess that people still shooting 65mm movies are split, some for the better quality and affordability over digital, some for nostalgia and 'the look'.
Once these 65mm digicams take over in a few years and become more affordable, all that's left are the film nuts who like it and would never go digital, like the movie-version of pretty much everyone here at apug.
And that's not going to be enough sales to sustain the Yellow Behemoth, they've still got 65mm on the books but who knows how many more runs they'll do before it's below-cost?
And that's exactly where Ferrania can slot in, as the smaller and more nimble player with a lot less overheads, able to run off a few dozen thousand feet without having to make+sell a few million to break even...
So is it possible that Ferrania may have a future market with 70mm cine film?
...we have some ideas floating around about how to manage pre-sold small-batch production runs. "Small-batch" is a relative term. Small for us might not be small enough for some formats, and I'm sure the number will vary by format.
These are just ideas, at this point, and are dependent on quite a number of other things falling into place first.
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