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Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking
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Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking

by Dan Rahmel
August 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
360 pages
12h 22m
English
Routledge
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DV Softener

Applications

Guerilla filmmakers are always trying to squeeze the highest quality images out of the lowest budget equipment. One common goal is to use a prosumer-grade DV camcorder to obtain film-grade images. There are a number of guides on the Internet with suggestions for obtaining these results. One problem that I haven’t seen addressed is the level of sharpness in a DV image.

Film is essentially an analog image, so the exposure is even across the entire exposed frame. Digital pictures capture images using small blocks of color called pixels. For this reason, a DV picture is overly sharp and can even feature jagged edges or stair ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780240805467