Will we still call sensors Super-35mm or Super-16mm sized once film is gone?

[Grug]

I was just wondering this, in digital photography things have pretty firmly moved on to the description of sensors sizes (APS-C, DX, FX, Full Frame etc.), once motion picture film has completely faded into the background in the next couple of years, do you think we'll continue to refer to formats by their film-based nomenclature?

 

[jamedia.uk]

yes for a good 10+ years until some one's marketing department comes up with something NEW Improved and Biological.... and most of the older film people, who by reflex will always use the old names, have retired from the industry.

 

[Bruce Watson]

I was just wondering this, in digital photography things have pretty firmly moved on to the description of sensors sizes (APS-C, DX, FX, Full Frame etc.), once motion picture film has completely faded into the background in the next couple of years, do you think we'll continue to refer to formats by their film-based nomenclature?

Sensor sizes are one thing. Lens coverage is another. There's lots of fine PL glass out there designed for S35. People are going to want to use these lenses for decades, film or no film. So I think a sensor size that's the same size as S35 frames will continue to be supported, and it will still be called S35, because that's it's name.

 

[Mitch Gross]

The classic pantomime for a movie is to hand crank like an old silent Bell & Howell camera. That's more than 90 years out of date.

My wife still calls the TV remote a "clicker" and that technology went away about 40 years ago.

How many people still say "tin can" when they've been made from aluminum for almost 60 years?

 

[Gillvane]

The classic pantomime for a movie is to hand crank like an old silent Bell & Howell camera. That's more than 90 years out of date.

My wife still calls the TV remote a "clicker" and that technology went away about 40 years ago.

How many people still say "tin can" when they've been made from aluminum for almost 60 years?

Some things just morph like noise instead of grain and ISO instead of ASA but the concepts are the same.

 

[Grug]

The classic pantomime for a movie is to hand crank like an old silent Bell & Howell camera. That's more than 90 years out of date.

My wife still calls the TV remote a "clicker" and that technology went away about 40 years ago.

How many people still say "tin can" when they've been made from aluminum for almost 60 years?

They're making cans from Aluminium now? Wow, I was born in the latter half of the 80s and I still call them 'tin'.

 

[Hectorxd]

I still call it "roll up the window" and my son does too even though he has never used a hand crank in a car. Old habits die hard!

 

[hscully]

"roll up the window..." excellent.

We have "digital cinema" which is awkward and inaccurate as it's not always, if at all, shown at a theater. Short films are still short films and how many of those are films? There's lots of ambiguity to go around.

I subscribe to Bruce's point about the glass, that S35 will be around as long as we're using those lenses, which will be a long time indeed.

 

[Mitch Gross]

My favorite aspect of "Digital Cinema" is that the sensors are analog devices.

 

[j1clark@ucsd.edu]

yes for a good 10+ years until some one's marketing department comes up with something NEW Improved and Biological.... and most of the older film people, who by reflex will always use the old names, have retired from the industry.

This is an industry were one still calls a crew member 'best boy' (and perhaps updated to 'best girl'???) and from the 'wiki' 'best boy' predates film and was used to refer to the 'best' apprentice in a master's shop... I think film size terms are going to be used as long...

 

[Gillvane]

I also thought that 24p was just a hold over from 24fps in film and that there was no real artistic reason for it until I saw how horrible 48fps looks.