“Why exactly does film look better than video?”
Hart's new DSLR camera setup
I got the question all the time. There are many factors, and it was always difficult to explain, actually, why video looked so “different” from film, but the base answer was easy: video was an electronic process, film was an optical/chemical process. Oh, sure, advances were made, and six-figure video cameras were eventually employed in the making of TV dramas and even a handful of Hollywood features, but there was still that underlying “look” that still gave it away.
Those days are over. Kaput.
Years and years of the “video” look, so abhorred by filmmakers, washed away in less than a year of consumer-grade product development.
