Film Visual Quality — Alchemy is Not Dead

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY
Doc Type: Conference Paper
Content Type: Original Research
Volume: 1999, No. 7, pp. 229–232
Abstract: As the quality and accuracy of colour and tonal reproduction of film emulsions continues to improve, filmmakers are seeking more creative ways to express mood in a film, or to gain greater impact in their photography. The colour film process, once regarded as an immutable standard, is now just one more of the variables in the photographic system, to be added to art direction, lighting and exposure on the set, to film grading for theatrical prints, to video colour correction and most recently to digital colour correction. In some ways, these techniques simply restore the full set of tools to the cinematographer that the stills photographer has enjoyed since the invention of photography. The more conservative view, that any post production technique that alters the image is somehow denying the cinematographers' control, is indicative of the general change from non-interactive (pre-planned) to interactive (flexible) methods that many technologies have passed through. As an example of processing variation, the technique of “bleach bypass” is explained, with examples demonstrating the effects of interaction of lighting, exposure, processing and grading on the eventual quality of the image. The relevance of this technique in the future context of digital film grading is discussed.
Publication Date: 1999-07-01
DOI: 10.5594/M001199
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/M001199
Author(s): Dominic CaseAtlab Australia
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Dominic Case has been Group Technology and Services Manager with Atlab Australia since 1996, following several years as a freelance technical consultant, and, before that, 16 years with Colorfilm laboratories. He is the author of two books on film technology, and has presented a number of papers in Australia and overseas. He was elected a fellow of SMPTE in 1995, and is currently an International Governor of the society.
Copyright: © 1999 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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