Digital has won the War
About five years ago the question was posed would digital video ever replace film as the standard in the motion picture industry. This concept was laughed at by those in the main stream film industry. Many of whom had gone to film schools and had been taught all of their lives that there was only one way to make a cinema. Go out and buy forty thousand dollars worth of film stock, shoot it with a 35mm camera that weighed a hundred pounds and cost over twenty thousand dollars, then edited the film on a flatbed truck. There was only one way to make a cinema even if George Lucas was shooting his new Star Wars films digitally he was still maintaining the same type of production. Besides his cameras cost more than a hundred thousand dollars each. He was a bit of a rebel, but not a heretic like those who would embrace the use of prosumer camcorders and then when the technology advanced the use of even smaller a far less expense consumer camcorders such as the Canon Vixia series which dared to include the ability to shoot at 24 frames per second.
With these new camcorders the revolution had a weapon to work with, but before they could fully show what they were capable of the technology made a quantum jump with the sudden arrival of the Dslr cameras. All of a sudden there was a tool that cost less than twenty five-hundred dollars that could deliver footage equal to cameras that cost ten times as much and the digital revolution had suddenly become a war. A war that was not fought film against digital cinema over a period of many years, but fought in black and red ink. Digital cost less to shoot. It cost less to edit and with the arrival of digital cinema projectors it cost far less to ship from studio to theater. A single cinema print cost upwards of thirty thousand dollars to ship to a cinema theater and that print had a shell life, while a digital print of the same film could be downloaded directly to a projector.
With the ability to make quality motion pictures using these Dslr cameras and some have suggested that they can be done using an iphone with a few enhancements the landscape has forever changed.
The war is not totally over yet. There are a few battles left to be fought, but the end is near. The end is in sight. The end is clear. The end of the era of film and the time of digital film has arrived.
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