“I think film is especially good when you’re going to extremes: when you’re shooting skies or window with bright exteriors, when it’s 7 stops over, film handles that more gracefully than digital. Film has much more latitude in color correction. That’s something I know about, and I’ve spoken to color timers a lot about this. If you’re trying to do a bleach bypass or ENR look, it looks artificial on digital. Digital looks great when you time it a certain way, meaning dark and desaturated. When you try different approaches, you will choose what looks best, and what looks best in digital is often very sober, dark, desaturated images. But try to do 3 Kings or The City of Lost Children, or Seven on digital! I think that digital media is actually guiding aesthetics right now.”
