Chambers wrote:
> Anyway, the every step in the video process has the potential to degrade picture
> quality, so CG is always going to benefit most from HD, while live movies rely
> much more on goo dacting than on good film quality.

Many live movies also rely on 'bad' film quality to give a look & feel. 
Three Kings springs to mind, with the bleached-washed out look. It even 
has a warning just before the film advising viewers not to adjust their 
players or screens!

Michael Mann's recent films (Collateral and Miami Vice) use digital 
cameras to get a more 'documentary' feel with slightly noisy images, and 
to bring out the light of cities at night. He's on record saying that 
you just can't get the same feel using a normal film camera.

The Illusionist uses very subtle darkening at the edges of the frame and 
slight deadening of the colour in certain scenes to suggest a hint of 
how Victorian films looks when played back now (this is when the film is 
set).

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