# Cinema and Camera

You can't just take your DSLR or your smartphone camera and shoot a film.

Digital cameras took over the world many years ago. Still some puritan film directors use hefty mechanical film cameras with reels. Those film cameras produce a sort of vivid and contrasty look to them. No matter what digital camera you use and how much you edit them in post production, you cannot exactly match that particular look of film cameras. That doesnt mean it's the only way to go.

Digital cinema cameras are fine as well and they are dominant. While they don't have the look of film camera, they can produce cinematic motion picture pretty well. They have very high dynamic range, soft image creation and their images can be taken nearly to those film cameras.

Well, that first statement you read isn't technically true. Nothing bars your way of picking up your phone and shoot something. However, whatever you shoot, will not look like a film. Films, as they are used to be made, have a certain mechanical look to them, and if certain conditions are not met, when you see a film shot by a DSLR or a phone camera, you can sense that, even when you cannot put it into words.

DSLR footages are too sharp and crystal clear. People would think that's a good thing, and it generally is. But not for films. Also people tend to shoot in high FPS (frames per second) and that results in buttery smooth videos and again, you'd think that's a good thing, and it generally is. But again not for cinema. Anything sharp and shot over 24 fps isn't cinematic. Films feel like films when they are shot with high dynamic range, have soft picture quality, motion blur and some fine grain noise in frames as well.
This is why when Faruki makes cinema, people complain "e ki banaiche, natok natok lage!"