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'28 Years Later' to Be First Blockbuster Movie Shot on iPhone
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I guess this depends on your definition of “replace”. They have certainly eaten most of the point and shot DSLR market, and mirrorless cameras have eaten much of the rest of the rest of that market.
While there it is likely that DSLR and mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras will be made for a while, just as people still shoot movies on film (Twisters comes to mind as a recent example), according to PetaPixel, over 90% of photos are taken on phones, and the vast majority of people have never shot a picture on a standalone camera.
Your comment did not say that the best possible image quality is DSLRs (as I think the mirrorless camera folks might argue that point), it said that phone cameras would not replace DSLRs and that is largely false.
Funny watching some come up with new ways to slag Apple to feel a little better.
Now it's a cinematographer having the temerity to use an iPhone in movie production.
What's nice is there will be some *creative* and imaginative people, even kids, who will be inspired and produce interesting movies. Kind of like 13 year old Steven Spielberg creating his first movie, a 40 minute war film, using his dad's Super 8 film camera and neighborhood kids as actors.
Now it's a cinematographer having the temerity to use an iPhone in movie production.
What's nice is there will be some *creative* and imaginative people, even kids, who will be inspired and produce interesting movies. Kind of like 13 year old Steven Spielberg creating his first movie, a 40 minute war film, using his dad's Super 8 film camera and neighborhood kids as actors.
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Yeah, during those years Danny Boyle shot 3 films on digital and they all looked crap even then, imagine how badly they aged.
Oh, with a little cash-cow mindset, a trilogy may be just the start.
"28 Decades later". and, of course, the prequel, "28 hours later".
Most of the people I know in filmmaking would think it was pretty cool. They got their start with some pretty minimalistic tools.
And there is a trend in the industry as a whole toward experimentation with a variety of tools. In the past 10-15 years, technology has changed the industry in some pretty radical ways beyond digital sensors: led lighting, editing tools, gimbals, wireless everything, etc.
Could you shoot a movie on me, Greg?
If we are going to do that (take a clearly British-made movie and say it’s a Hollywood movie because it’s co-produced by Columbia Pictures):
Columbia Pictures is owned by Sony Pictures, which is owned by Sony Entertainment, which is owned by Sony Group.* So this British film that you say is a Hollywood production… is actually Tokyo production! 😱😱😱
*I probably missed a few other in-between subsidiaries.
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Tony (and Chelsea) know what they're doing as far as photography (and running a small business), but they have definitely gotten way into the influencer mode over the past few years, posting click-bait videos and projecting a lot more outrage and hyperbole than is necessary to get a legit point across. Hard to watch their stuff now.
I agree, the massive size of that rig moots the point of using an iPhone. Here is a far better alternative:
With Apple's existing technology, they could easily make something better/different for half the price. I don't understand why they don't.
I was quite disappointed with 28 weeks later. The characters do some astonishingly stupid things:
We found a zombie! That threatens everything we are doing! Leave her alone and unguarded.
In case of zombie outbreak, lock everyone in the basement and shut off the lights.
With Apple's existing technology, they could easily make something better/different for half the price. I don't understand why they don't.
28 weeks later was shot mostly on super 16mm film, and used video just for the zombie POV.
I was quite disappointed with 28 weeks later. The characters do some astonishingly stupid things:
We found a zombie! That threatens everything we are doing! Leave her alone and unguarded.
In case of zombie outbreak, lock everyone in the basement and shut off the lights.
I see at least a dozen versions of 28 Days Later on just one torrent search site (1137).
If I can't watch it on the numerous sites I pay to stream from, then there's little reason not to torrent it.
Your two paragraphs are contradictory. you are saying that all cameras (expensive film cameras or an iPhone camera) will need expensive rigging while also saying that the advertising is misleading because an iPhone doesn’t cut it as a film cameras alone does not replace all the rigging.
The point that is advertised is not that your iPhone can magically replace everything, just that you can have something with film quality if you have the skills and equipment without necessarily needing a second multi-thousand dollar Red camera. Apple makes it very clear that extra riggings and lightning are used in all of the ads they make about using the iPhone to shoot pro films.
Let internet geniuses rant about how much they know more than professionals.
This should a pinned post on every iPhone release thread.
It’s a cost reduction / aesthetic decision justified by the “gritty horror” genre. They wouldn’t have done this if it were a romantic comedy (or at least not 5-10+ years ago).
Northrup is just a shock jock style photographer. He should know better, but let’s face it, he’s a pixel peeper, not an artist.
An artist will disagree. The best ever photographs were shot on cameras that were not as 'good' as what you have now.