Is that when digital picked up the term "soap opera look"?
True that. Here in the USA in the film world, the big blow came with the Hollywood writer's strike around 2008. Prior to then, most scripted television (whether cable or broadcast) and feature films were still shot on negative film. The strike brought in a lot of reality shows that were digital video, and that just stayed the norm in TV after the writers came back to work. It was sheer inertia that had kept Hollywood shooting thousands of feet of negative for as long as it did.
Is that when digital picked up the term "soap opera look"?
Depends on what you mean by a pro. When I was doing architectural photography, I took far fewer shots in a year than the typical amateur would shoot in a day. The whole point was to get it right the first time. Most of the work was up front evaluating the shoot, balancing the lighting, careful positioning and metering, and so forth - no time left over to waste on redundant shots. That's not the case when people are guessing or bracketing and so forth. Now with digital cameras, the number of "hope I got it" shots seems to have increased tenfold, pretty much the antithesis of professionalism.
Pretty much the same story with studio portrait pros, or even skilled environmental portraitists. Not everyone drinks 39 cups of coffee before a shoot to hype a machine-gunning mentality. But don't get me wrong; we need more machine-gunners to keep up the volume of film sales.
What about a wildlife pro? - yeah, they might rapidly shoot an opportune sequence when it arrives, but might have to wait for weeks in a blind for that to happen. And then that opportunity might last less than half a minute.
“Soap opera look” predates digital, and was originally caused by the higher frame rate of videotape used to record the soaps. These days, it’s a “feature” of most TVs, and affects both digital and film recordings. I disabled it almost immediately when I bought a new TV.
What do you disable?
Pros include some many categories: Photojournalists, Portrait photographers, Police departments, Documentarians, Scientific, Commercial photographers of all ilks--lifestyle, food, cars, table-top, catalog, fashion, etc. Plus cinematography for movies, documentaries, scientific and tv commercials. When we would shoot a TV commercial, it was not unusual to shoot 100-to-1 ratio, that is 100 seconds of film for every 1 second of the final cut. Then there is all the film that was used for prints to distribute to theaters, archiving, etc. Not to mention how much film was used for high-speed filming.Ten thousand people shooting 4 rolls a year used more film in a year than a pro wedding photographer would shoot in several years.
There is no doubt that the market crashed between 2000 and 2010. Like @Sirius Glass I took the opportunity to buy lenses and other gear I could not otherwise afford. the curious thing is that prices are now up again and I could not afford them if I didn't already own them.
We are just so wise beyond our years.
I am talking about still film.
Plus cinematography for movies, documentaries, scientific and tv commercials.
I am a little confused or maybe I missed something.
First, it was talking about pro still film and now includes cinema/movie film.
My post #475 https://www.photrio.com/forum/threa...erest-in-film-photography.192580/post-2576559
relates only to still film.
Look for “motion interpolation” or “motion smoothing”, and turn it off.
Ok thanks. As a side question, then why is there such a push in the industry for higher frame rates in cameras such as 60fps rather than 30 or 24?
Have you seen any leveling off of purchases for skiing, hunting, archery, boats, wines, 4-wheelers, bling trucks, woodworking tools, remote-control planes, or any other 1st world "essentials?"
You base this on what? Have you seen any leveling off of purchases for skiing, hunting, archery, boats, wines, 4-wheelers, bling trucks, woodworking tools, remote-control planes, or any other 1st world "essentials?"
Gen Alpha kids are far more interested in my film gear than my boring DSLR when I'm on a gig.
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