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RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION!

November 25th, 2009

It’s a wonderful time! Any person who is even slightly associated with the image making world is aware of discussions (bombarding) related to negative, DSLR videos, HD, High resolution, 2k, 3k, 4k etc. A couple of years ago in the Broadcast India Exhibition I happened to see a camera (digital image recording machine to be precise) called PS technik SI 2k camera (http://www.pstechnik.de/en/digitalfilm-si2k.php), mini camera heads and modular systems. Then I heard about RED followed by Scarlet (http://www.red.com/epic_scarlet/) which excited me even more! And have you noticed that in all this air about the High resolution, the much talked about HD is disappearing quietly. Now what we are speaking of is 2k or 3k or 4k or… n number of such ks. I feel we are witnessing a history and filmmakers of my age have a great gift coming ahead of us. Filmmaking (cinema) won’t be that out of reach. If Scarlet and PS technik (and many others who intend to join in) deliver what they promise, modular camera systems are the future things! Personally I am very excited about this! Though I am a hardcore celluloid believer I would love to surprise myself by doing my first feature film on one of these digital high resolution modular system image recording units! Inshallah! 8-)