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schilmeran |
Digital vs. Analog
Mar 10 2007, 6:11 PM EST
This question has been on my mind but I haven't been able to get on here till now...
In class, Brett said that film is considered analog but that Manovich would classify it as digital since it is hundreds of thousands of captured shots that are played at an incredible speed. So, now lets switch from video cameras to actual cameras. If digital cameras are, as the name indicates, digital, then are the "other" cameras that use film analog? Or are they digital since they use film and Manovich considers the use of film to be an indicator of a digital medium? Do you find this valuable?
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cgellis |
1. RE: Digital vs. Analog
Mar 12 2007, 8:25 PM EDT
I believe that cameras with film would fall under the "analog" category becasue they are not composed of many pixels or anything like that. I think what Manovich was talking about is the idea that films are digital because it is broken up into many frames and it is not one continous line of film (even though it appears to be continous because it's so fast). Since a photograph is not made of tiny little pixels it would be considered analog.
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