[Frank]

Roger, I remember in one of the podcast episodes you and James expressed surprise that a lot of the film students you talk to now don’t seem to know much about exposure. Surely something as essential to cinematography as knowing how to get the exposure you want is a ‘fundamental’.

[Frank]

I know what you mean and the thing I would compare it to is anamorphic lenses, which seemed to lose some of the ‘character’ that differentiated them from spherical as more and more of their artefacts got ironed out. To me the resolution of the Kodak EXR and Vision stocks from the mid-1990s looks radically different from the movies released even a few years prior to their introduction, to the point where for instance 1992 and 1997 can feel like two completely different eras of filmmaking.

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