"30 Days Of Night" Film or Digital?

Ted Spencer

Ted Spencer

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Just wondering if anyone knows whether "30 Days" was shot on film or digital. I was watching it last night and was occasionally noticing something that looked a lot like digital edge enhancement. Curious to know if that's what I saw...

Thanks
 
Looks like it was shot on 35mm:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0389722/technical

Did you see it on BluRay?
I found this from a review of the BluRay DVD:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=32232

"30 Days of Night easily stands out as one of the mostly strikingly crisp and detailed titles on either next-gen format. In fact, it's so perfect -- so smooth and well-defined -- that if not for the faint traces of film grain, I'd have assumed that the movie had been natively shot on HD video. The only flaw of any sort that I was able to spot was light ringing around the actors as they trudged through the snow in Barrow's waning moments of sunlight. Even with that mild edge enhancement in place, 30 Days of Night is one of just a handful of discs I'd immediately reach for to showcase just how outstanding Blu-ray can look."
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Yes, I saw it on Blu-ray, projected huge (about 12' diagonal) on my Panasonic HD front projector. It is, as the reviewer noted, one of the crispets Blu-ray (or HDDVD) titles I've seen. Some shots looked slightly edge enhanced, but not too bad. It certainly is as the reviewer implied, a "reference" Blu-ray where sharpness is concerned. Many of them are so soft as to almost render the HD transfer moot. "V for Vendetta" ia actually sharper on my Pioneer Elite SD DVD player than it is on HD-DVD. Other HD-DVD titles look super-shapr though, so it's not the player.
 
The November issue of American Cinematographer had an excellent write-up on 30 Days of Night. See about tracking it down.
 
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