JamieG Analysis

Yet again, the debate about which is better, film or digital, has broken out on a forum site for film owners.  Following is my input into the debate.  I wanted to post it to my blog as I feel my DJ analogy was insightful (to may anyway) so want to share it to a wide [...]

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It has never been harder for a cinema owner to make decisions on how to move forward. Going digital and the VPF (Virtual Print Fee) has taken a lot of the control out of the cinema owners hands. You want to move with the times, but cannot afford to miss out on the VPF. [...]

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The Red Digital Cinema tag line is “The Red Camera Makes Obsolescence Obsolete.”
As a DCI digital cinema expert and past owner of a Film and TV production studio and facility, unfortunately, this comment is a little miss-leading.
Let me explain why.
I am involved in the installation of DCI projectors within Australia.  As such, I am well [...]

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Red Digital Cinema recently dropped all specs on its Scarlet and Epic product range as Nikon and Canon bring out cameras of equivalent performance (Ie Canon 5D MkII).  A month later they announce a totally re-vamped vision with what one would consider to be “the dream vision” of film making equipment.  The question here is.  [...]

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The Canon 5DMK2 is making big news in the Film and TV world. The example video by Vincent Laforet looks quite amazing as a web file.  But to fully assess the quality of the images we need to examine the raw files coming from the camera. Canon made these files available on their website but [...]

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