Because Mr. Salgado switched from medium format film to digital black-and-white cameras midway through his eight-year journey, Mr. Taschen and Mrs.
The Gigapixl Project, meantime, is using large-format film cameras to create a highly detailed coast-to-coast portrait of North America, focusing on cities, parks and monuments.
But does the average cinema-goer care or notice what format the film they're watching is in?
It will also be screened in 3D - only the second time in the history of the festival a film has been shown in the format after Pixar's Up opened in 2009.
Some 2.3 million Betamax machines were sold worldwide in its peak year, 1984, but it soon went downhill as VHS became the format of choice for the film rental industry and in homes.
Sometimes this is about content, in terms of shooting in a different way, perhaps using film rather than digital, or medium format, or just using shorter focal length lenses, and at other times it's more about packaging the story in a different way.
The professional Betamax format, Betacam, is still widely used in the television and film industries and will be unaffected.
Asked why there had never been a Blackadder feature film, Atkinson said it was "surprisingly tricky" to expand the sitcom format to an hour and a half.
Not only could digital equipment continuously become obsolete but so could the format that movies are stored in, according to both digital and film experts at Eastman Kodak.
The film earned 32% of its money in IMAX, which is a record for the format in terms of non-exclusive releases.
FORBES: Weekend Box Office: 'Evil Dead' Tops With $26M, 'Jurassic Park' 3D Earns $18M
UltraViolet is a common file format and digital rights authentication system designed to allow a digital copy of a film or television show bought from any vendor physical or electronic to be played on any one of 12 devices owned by up to six members of a household, either via download or streaming from the cloud.
FORBES: With Home Entertainment Sales Spiraling Downward, Movie Studios Turn to UltraViolet
应用推荐