ABSTRACT
The digital takeover of the film industry is now all but complete. At the production level, an increasing number of features are shot with digital cameras. Of the 2014 Academy Award Best Picture contenders, six of ten features had been shot digitally.3 In the near future, all films will be shot without celluloid, as there will be no other cost effective option left. The primary supplier of film stock to filmmakers, Kodak, went bankrupt in 2012.4 Its main competitor, Fujifilm, closed its motion picture department the year after.5 Camera makers such as Panavision and Arri have stopped making new 35mm film cameras.6 Labs such as Technicolor have switched their business model to aiding an all-digital workflow. The support structure for shooting on film has gradually begun to disappear.
