Digital camera rant
In this day and age why do they insist on using old technology cameras in films, in this film from the focus in the camera screen you know it's an old camera. In the wire they used 70s cameras. Why do Hollywood insult us?
shareThe camera she's using is a modern dSLR, but when they cut to shots through the viewfinder you'd think you were looking through a split prism viewfinder on a manual 35mm SLR. I guess filmmakers think that for audiences, the split prism viewfinder is iconic and immediately recognisable. In THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, Peter Parker uses a Yashica Electro 35 rangefinder, but the cutaways to his POV through the camera use the view of a split prism viewfinder in an SLR too - a completely different type of camera.
As I recall, this was the same with The Wire: modern digital cameras used onscreen but the cutaways to the viewfinder showed an old-fashioned split prism viewfinder.
Having said that, some (though not many, in all probability) photojournalists and forensic photographers still use 35mm film cameras.
I was more bothered about the fact that during the opening sequence, Monaghan - presumably a professional photojournalist - seems to be using a bog standard crop sensor dSLR (rather than a full frame dSLR) with the kit zoom (18-55mm or thereabouts); this is more the type of equipment that a first year photography student would use :D
'What does it matter what you say about people?'
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958).