Digital cinematography

Common card · No. 376577

Digital cinematography is the process of capturing (recording) a motion picture digitally using digitized image sensor output rather than photochemically through film stock. As digital technology has improved in recent years, this practice has become dominant. Since the 2000s, most movies across the world have been captured as well as distributed digitally. Many vendors have brought products to market, including traditional film camera vendors like Arri and Panavision, as well as new vendors like Red, Blackmagic, Silicon Imaging, Vision Research and companies which have traditionally focused on consumer and broadcast video equipment, like Sony, GoPro, and Panasonic. As of 2019, professional 4K digital cameras were approximately equal to 35mm film in their resolution and dynamic range capacity. Some filmmakers still prefer to use film picture formats to achieve the desired results.

Read on Wikipedia · Image Daniel Figur, Jeff McCoy, Josh Hamilton, CC BY 3.0