Karim D. Ghantous

The biggest threat: not having some kind of financial independence.

The closest I have been able to find: https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/2135646 Mixing chemicals to develop 5254: https://archive.org/details/dignan-photographic-newsletter-1970-04-vol-t-374-394-processing-formulas-color-printing/page/n25/mode/2up

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You're not wrong. But I don't think it's that simple. Awful scripts are a problem. As is recycled IP ad nauseam. I will pay to see Empire Strikes Back in a cinema, but I won't pay to see a new SW film. I don't want it and I don't need it. I believe that Hollywood has actually forgotten how to make movies. They have the money and the people and the IP, but they don't know what they're doing anymore. It's ironic because the chain is unbroken - it's not as if Hollywood stopped existing for 20 years and then had to restart. That's one reason I loved the '90s - diversity of technology. I intend to make at least two documentaries, assuming I can get the money. I'm confident about that. The only thing I can't control is whether or not cinemas think my projects are worthy to be shown. I also think that the future of cinema is IMAX. Film or digital, it doesn't matter. You can't easily replicate that in your house. The budgets won't have to be huge, either. The format is the effect. Fewer cinemas, all IMAX, showing a diverse range of films intermittently. They will even have intermissions. Films will be shown, they will make way for other titles, and then come back, etc.

https://eclipse70mm.com/ If you have Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZT2pSxNitR/?igsh=MW05NnlrZm1qaTB4bA== Edit: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/eclipse-imax-moive-solar-event-1236563258/

Given the cost of storage, I think that HD is very much alive! But seriously - I think that an HD camera can be built, with a small sensor, that can deliver 18+ stops of DR, and it won't have to be overly expensive. (7:14)

$110!? I mean, $50 was already expensive.

https://www.cineluxcinematools.com/sixteen I'm a little bit surprised that this hasn't been done a long time ago. It's kind of like a video tap, but much better.

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Jeff, I wish I had your knowledge and passion for this. I know it's worth it!

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That's 16mm? From 1991? It looks fairly clean - I presume that it was ASA 50 stock? Anyway, I think you could possibly make digital behave like this (retaining highlights in light sources). You'd have to massively underexpose, and shoot RAW or equivalent. So now you're matching film's characteristics, which entail grainy shadows and disciplined highlights. I haven't tried it, but I should. I wouldn't need a cinema camera, either.

I admire your dedication. 🙂

Yes. Sensors and emulsions, within their limits, just record what they see. They take what they're given. They are 'mechanical', so to speak. I'm not a biologist, but our visual system is very nuanced and it adjusts without us realising it.

An old favourite of mine. (2:01)