Video is not Film

Lately I've been hearing a lot about high school students and their "film" projects. Their schools like to mislead people by saying these students use film, the cellulose acetate strips that have images burnt into them, when in actuality these students use DV tape. Film and Video are two different monsters. It saddens me, as a film student, to be grouped with these phonies. Film is not Video. It requires development unlike video. Film is more expensive, so you have to make your shots count, unlike video where you can capture a shot over a preexisting crappy shot.

I feel all these videos are ruining film as an art. It's like making photography available to consumers. What bothers me, is if the quality of HD video passes Film. Right now film is a higher contrast ratio, and it has the grain, which most videographers like to mimic in post.

I guess these amateurs are starting to be bothersome. Nuff said.

A Tiff with HP

It seems HP does not like to honor the warrenties for their products; it's nice seeing a company stand behind their products. It all started with my firewire port not working on my DV1000 Pavillion Notebook. I called up HP and was quickly passed off to three different reps before being helped.

After talking to the "tech guru", we decided to send my notebook in for repair. Luckily, I saved the original packaging, because unlike Apple, they don't send you a box. They received it and a few days later, a rep called and said the warrenty was void, eventhough it was last November I bought it. She said it would cost $280 dollars to fix (about 1/4 I paid for the notebook). I said hell no, and to ship the notebook.

Anyways, HP has lost my business. I won't even buy a printer from them. I can't wait for Apple's transition to Intel is over, then I'll switch back to mac.