Posted by AnthonyR on 10/12/05 01:11

"Bill Van Dyk" <trash@christian-horizons.org> wrote in message
news:76mdnSGu4LVQUNbeRVn-sg@golden.net...
> Marshall Mcluhan famously observed that every art form is really just an
> obsolete technology. Think about it--
>
> So Super 8mm Film is now "art". There are wedding videographers who now
> offer, as an expensive extra, some 8mm film shot of your wedding, and then
> transferred to the DVD.
>


Wouldn't it be easier to just add the "old movie" effect in post rather than
go through the trouble to film in 8mm, develop and then transfer (which is
no easy task to do correctly) to digital just to get the look of a bad 8mm
film transfer?

It would still give the same results, probably better if done right.

But I guess then they couldn't charge extra? Or maybe they are selling the
fact that film might last longer as a storage medium than tape and dvd?

Interesting post, irregardless.
Thanks Bill for the info.

AnthonyR.

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