R.I.P., the movie camera: 1888-2011 by Matt Zoller Seitz

This is an interesting article for an old school photography hobbyist like me. Article from http://www.salon.com

Cecil B. DeMille  (Credit: doctormacro.com)

We might as well call it: Cinema as we knew it is dead.

An article at the moviemaking technology website Creative Cow reports that the three major manufacturers of motion picture film cameras — Aaton, ARRI and Panavision — have all ceased production of new cameras within the last year, and will only make digital movie cameras from now on.  As the article’s author, Debra Kaufman, poignantly puts it, “Someone, somewhere in the world is now holding the last film camera ever to roll off the line.”

What this means is that, even though purists may continue to shoot movies on film, film itself will may become increasingly hard to come by, use, develop and preserve.

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