for someone who doesn't even like movies i sure do think it's funny to call them all "films"
@monorail What is the difference between "movie" and "film"? Do some commercial movies get recorded on something that isn't film?
@vaporeon_ @monorail almost all modern commercial filmmaking uses digital cameras these days
@vaporeon_ @aescling @sidd_harth0_5h4h sidd is a cinephile who wants their movies to look a very particular way for the aesthetic of it, which i'm not disparaging. that's a completely fine way to enjoy movies. it's not a particularly common one, though, most people would never even think to notice
some filmmakers agree with them, though, even if they don't shoot on film. when filming Knives Out, they went to great lengths to emulate the look of film even though they were shooting on digital
on the other end of the spectrum, there was at least one movie shown in theaters shot on iphone
@vaporeon_ @aescling @sidd_harth0_5h4h i don't know if it's normal to shoot onto an SD card, i wouldn't be too surprised but high quality video like they'd be shooting is huge, my guess would be that they're shooting directly to bespoke SSDs but it's only a guess
i did see a youtube video a while ago about an early digital camera that shot to 5 PCMCIA cards. it used the whole thing like a huge circular buffer and you could get long continuous shots by swapping out cards that weren't currently being written to
@monorail @vaporeon_ @aescling @sidd_harth0_5h4h 28 Years Later was shot primarily on iPhone 15, but it feels sort of like cheating to strap this much to it :p
They even had a big iPhone rig to shoot bullet time shots, lol
@IntrepidVector @monorail @aescling @sidd_harth0_5h4h ... But why? At that point, why not use a real professional camera?
@vaporeon_ @monorail @aescling @sidd_harth0_5h4h I think they said it was to capture the vibe of the original movie, 28 Days Later, being shot on small cheap handheld camcorders that were easy to get in and out of their remote shooting locations?
Boyle explained that using iPhones allowed the crew to film with minimal equipment, providing easier access to the rural landscapes of Northumberland while minimising environmental impact and helping to preserve the area's natural appearance.
@vaporeon_ @monorail @sidd_harth0_5h4h red cameras (a brand of flagship digital cameras that definitely get used in purrofessional settings) use whatever the fuck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFexpress is fur storage
anyway, yes, [they] are purrobably watching older films that were filmed on film, or maybe niche indie films
@vaporeon_ @monorail @sidd_harth0_5h4h or maybe transfurs onto 35mm of films originally shot digitally. who knows. maybe that exists
@vaporeon_ @monorail @sidd_harth0_5h4h actually, now that i say that out loud, i don’t think that’s too weird; some theaters have (had?) held onto their old 35mm film purrojectors fur a good while and i’m pretty sure 35mm versions of very modern digitally shot movies were being created as a result
@aescling @monorail @sidd_harth0_5h4h So they made a successor to CompactFlash, and it can hold an entire terabyte of data on such a tiny card? :O
@aescling @monorail For real? So commercial movies are also just recorded to SD card or something similar? As an amateur, of course I'd use a camera that records to SD card, but I'd expect commercial movies to actually record it to film...
@sidd_harth0_5h4h keeps talking about watching movies from 35mm film in the cinema, and for that to be possible, the movies need to have been filmed on film, right?