I read recently that Stephen Spielberg said he only makes movies on film,
that is his medium, along with quite a few other directors and
cinematographers. I have seen some HD movies and although they are good
quality, I think you would have an impossible task creating the look of a
1970's film stock without actually using the original film stock. I see
quite a lot of movies where there is a flashback which is portrayed using
Super 8 stock to give an authentic look (soft, grainy, saturated) which
apparently cannot be achieved with new technology. I think it is actually
quite difficult to make a modern video camera produce results to look like a
they emerged from a 1980's video camera. Does anybody have any examples of a
digital shot manipulated to look like a convincing Kodachrome 64, Polaroid
SX-70 or similar. I wondered about it because I was watching a 1930's movie
and I don't think that vintage look can be replicated by any means other
than using a 1930's film camera, film, and processing methods of the day.
Movie geeks welcome to put me right.