Archive for August, 2011
Different Types of Film Equipment
Saturday, August 6th, 2011
There are many different types of film and video editing equipments out in the world today, but some are better than others. Enough though the world revolves around digital editing, there is still good reasons to take a good-hard look at all options available for film equipment. In the past there was film splicing, which just rearranges most of the film. Then, there’s tape to tape editing, which used a linear editing machine to record blank tape on a recorder. Next, there’s digital computer, which records video footage onto a hard drive, then it the video footage is edited using specialized software like Final Cut Pro or Adobe.
Looking a the conventional camera, it has 3 different elements that make it tick. First, the optical lens is a component that is a considered to be a curved piece of glass and/or plastic. That lens, in essence, is an instrument that takes beams of light and rebounds it off an object, therefore redirecting the light towards the camera person’s eye, where it can be recorded into a pixel. The film, second, has the job to record this beam of light and make it chemically recorded on a pattern or image. Every film as a collection of holes, or light sensitive grains, that in turn help to produce and record the light by chemically reacting to it. Lastly, the when unused light is in excess, a film will get a washed-out feeling, and not enough light will make a film too dark. The optimal solution is to having the light come in perfectly, giving the exact pixels of the portraying light. For dark situations, this requires more light, for light situations, it means less light.
Setting your exposure longer will capture more light, but could make it dark if messed up. A digital camera works very similar to this concept of a regular film strip camera. It still uses images to record light, and has lens to capture vibrate scenes. Instead of using film to record, however, it uses a semiconductor that captures light electronically in 1s and 0s. This makes for much more convenience, because chemically processing film takes a long time and can be a painstaking process to any individual. All photos that look good are usually from digital cameras, because there is less room for error and shots look better. Professional photographers are more into digital than film, and digital is the way of the future.