When his wealthy boss dies from a sudden heart attack, Dave Bishop (Robert Mitchum) decides to find out more about the enigmatic businessman, starting with the source of his fortune. He uncovers a mystery that leads him across Europe and dates back to World War II. As Bishop digs deeper, he learns that his boss was involved in a blackmail scheme with links to the Nazis — information that puts his own life in danger.
Month: November 2012
Hollywoodland (2006) | Dir. Allen Coulter
Why We Love Film | Ken Rockwell | kenrockwell.com

Why We Love Film
by Ken Rockwell
Film versus Digital Capture
“Capture” means how an image or data is acquired.
After it’s caught, either on film or with digital capture, all of them are workable and archivable and printable in a computer, since all my film is scanned at the time of development.
If I capture on film, it all goes into the same digital workflow, archive and backup plan. The only difference is less work, less expense, better-looking files and more fun with film capture.
Film capture also gives me the option of a second, parallel workflow that both gives me a second set of permanent, eternally legible backups (the film itself), as well as the freedom to edit, print and project directly from the film if I so choose.
Dynamic Range?
You want dynamic range? I got your dynamic range right here in this little canister. It’s called film; a write-once, read-many (WORM) medium.
I made this shot on a Contax G2 with a 21mm Zeiss lens at f/8 on Fuji Velvia 50, which was processed and scanned at the same time at NCPS. The dynamic range is so great that the hellacious sunbursts you see are just what’s naturally coming off the diaphragm blade at f/8, as if 1,000 suns were shining in the lens in the two-minute exposure.
Not only that, but the film I shot in a Canon EOS Rebel G film camera, worth about $20 today, was sharper as scanned at NCPS than the file I made with the same lens on a Canon 5D, which is sharper still than anything on earth from Nikon digital.
How about that? A $20 camera with a $5 roll of film and $20 to process and scan the entire roll is sharper than a $5,000 camera. (The Contax cost more, but still loads less than anything in full-frame digital.)
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