Quote Originally Posted by Bob Salomon View Post
And many theaters no longer can project film so they show it from digital media. So most viewers probably only see it from digital.
Productions still shot in film (like Mission Impossible, Star Wars and 007) all use hybrid processing, first what they do is scanning and digitally editing, later they may print some film with a film recorder but most of the projection is done digitally because of cost...

Anyway the resulting cinematography seen in a TV is much better if acquisition was made in film.



Quote Originally Posted by Bob Salomon View Post
What do you think the demand for film stock will be when parts for those cameras are no longer available or when the cinematographers and directors using it now retire?
Stock film demand is very scarce, big busines for kodak was print film before digital projection era, for each foot of stock film they were selling thousands of feet of print film.

There are young directors using film like Rian Johnson (44), Damien Chazelle (33)...

...like there are young photographers using film.

IMHO at one point digital cameras will be able to perform close to what film is able, by then it will be irrelevant if the movie is shot digitally or not.