RE: [Avid-L2] Re: 3D monitors and finishing

>Have you seen an episode of "Fantasy Island" recently? It's embarrassing.

In what way? You are mixing and matching style vs. standards. TV Episodic
Film Cinematography matured slower than feature work due to time, budgetary
and speed of implementation constraints.

The zoom lenses of the 70's where not as good as today. Remember the zoom
effect and how over used it was? Until the late 80's, Television Film and
Electronic Cinematography in the 50's, 60's and 70's was lit largely by hard
Fresnel's not soft box sources like today. The DP's and Lighting Directors
of the day learned that way so that was the look. This also with slower film
stocks, NTSC cameras, hard light needing less clean-up and the Receiver and
Transmitter issues is what attributed to the hard Fresnel look. Star Trek,
Hogan's Heroes, Mannix, Streets of San Francisco, Lost In Space, All In The
Family where all "hard light source" Fresnel shows. In the late 70's moving
into early 80's a more naturalistic look slowly began to take over.

I think the biggest fault and complaints stem from old or even original film
transfers that are even today still the masters for old shows that weren't
exactly high art to begin with. I remember the first time I saw the original
60's Star Trek in 35mm on VHS. I rented it from FotoMat. Anybody remember
FotoMat? Up until that time, the late 70's, the only Star Trek episodes I
had ever seen where run from beat to death 16mm prints run on local TV
station telecines. Now you look at it on Blu-Ray and everybody gasps in
breathless wonder. Did the cinematography suddenly improve or change? Nope
sure didn't. All the 60's Sci-Fi shows where "cartoon" primary color shows.
This was done for a reason, color TV was new. I remember the first time I
saw Hogan's Heroes in HD. Not exactly high art but damn it sure did look
good. So I would enjoy it all over again if I had the show on Blu-Ray.

Frankly I find the soft source look of today's TV shows to be a bit mushy.
Some are better than others. It all starts to look the same because it is.
It is no different than the 60's and 70's. The lenses, film stocks and film
transfer technology of today are light-years ahead of what they used to be.
This in large part due to a more featuresque production approach. That is
why TV looks "technically" so good today. As far as better than old TV
shows? I would intensely disagree.

In 50 years whose going to be watching Law and Order or Great Race? But you
can guarantee Star Trek and old shows from the 60's will be re-transferred
to the latest format dejour.

TMcD

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