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You can't do this with only video capture (Last of Us *SP*) (Gaming)

by Cody Miller @, Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 10:18 (3758 days ago) @ kapowaz
edited by Cody Miller, Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 10:22

I heard a several minute piece about the demise of movie film on NPR the other day and laughed a bit when one of the people lamenting film going away gave "film grain" as one of the reasons she would be sad to see it go.


Film grain isn't always a bad thing. In moderation, it adds texture to a shot. Besides, its equivalent still exists in digital photography — try shooting in low light conditions at high ISOs and you'll get noise in the image, very much like the analogue equivalent.

It is fast going away. The sensor in the Dragon is pretty insane. You can shoot low light, 2000 ISO, and with no processing have scant noise. With processing, it's incredibly pristine. There was a demo on the previous sensor for the Epic where Leonardo DiCaprio lit a match which was the only light source in the image. There was barely a shred of noise in the darks with no processing at 2000 ISO.


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