Snapper123
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I honestly wish I could stumble onto a trove of extremely cheap/free and small early 90's cameras though, I have a script that plain out requires some spastic handheld work with no rolling shutter, and any sort of aged tinge you could muster, as well as the body of the camera itself looking very retro; the script goes where a bunch of cameras will be used and other cameras will be seen by other cameras, and I really do want it to be very true so I pretty much just want to go all the way with a bunch of VHS cams. Sadly, I've searched my entire town and it seems no where has a plathora of these cameras, it seems they're still buried in people's basements.
But other than that, I really enjoy having resolution, I wish the 16:9 ratio was even wider (2K), I like a bit of depth of field, and I totally wish the aliasing issues were gone from my DSLR. After all, if you capture things in a way that is perfect for the cinema standard, you can always trash it up later if you want (running the footage through VHS, cropping it to a smaller ratio, adding noise, ect ect - basically Harmony Korine's neato Trash Humpers.) But I do agree that I'd simply find it so entirely fun to find an old VHS cam that really had some issues going on in terms of the colors and recording, when you know something is far from perfect, it tends to set you free a bit, somehow.
Honestly though, I think that filming standards really topped in the 90's - watch any Harmony Korine film, and his standard for cinema is pristine, all of his films would compete with any films seen in this decade - I think that films in this decade have gone over the top so severely trying to make things appealing and shiny that most actors now look greenscreened in because of such harsh backlights and such harsh facial lights, zombie films now look like rap videos, for example. My personal choices is a very soft, filled 90's look, to me, that's when films looked like real life, nothing more, nothing less, and very easy on the eyes. Even aspect ratios are getting plain silly, I personally enjoy 16:9 and 2K best, I do agree that a bit of rectangle somehow makes things easier on my eyes, but crazy ratios that are 5x longer than they are tall are just horrible to look at and accept. When it gets to that point, it doesn't even serve a purpose.
But other than that, I really enjoy having resolution, I wish the 16:9 ratio was even wider (2K), I like a bit of depth of field, and I totally wish the aliasing issues were gone from my DSLR. After all, if you capture things in a way that is perfect for the cinema standard, you can always trash it up later if you want (running the footage through VHS, cropping it to a smaller ratio, adding noise, ect ect - basically Harmony Korine's neato Trash Humpers.) But I do agree that I'd simply find it so entirely fun to find an old VHS cam that really had some issues going on in terms of the colors and recording, when you know something is far from perfect, it tends to set you free a bit, somehow.
Honestly though, I think that filming standards really topped in the 90's - watch any Harmony Korine film, and his standard for cinema is pristine, all of his films would compete with any films seen in this decade - I think that films in this decade have gone over the top so severely trying to make things appealing and shiny that most actors now look greenscreened in because of such harsh backlights and such harsh facial lights, zombie films now look like rap videos, for example. My personal choices is a very soft, filled 90's look, to me, that's when films looked like real life, nothing more, nothing less, and very easy on the eyes. Even aspect ratios are getting plain silly, I personally enjoy 16:9 and 2K best, I do agree that a bit of rectangle somehow makes things easier on my eyes, but crazy ratios that are 5x longer than they are tall are just horrible to look at and accept. When it gets to that point, it doesn't even serve a purpose.
