Digital Cinematography

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Why digital cinematography?

Introduction

There must be three groups of cinematographers that most often find themselves new users of digital cinematography. There is the traditionally trained and experienced film maker, the experienced video technician who probably fully understands analogue video and there is the student who might wish to work with the film medium but for reasons of cost find themselves shooting digitally.

It is wrong, these days, to look upon tape either as an inferior medium or as a direct replacement for traditional film techniques. At the introduction of photography the phrase ‘from today painting is dead’ struck fear into the hearts of many an artist and yet oil, watercolour and crayon all still flourish. The knowledgeable ...