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BRIAN DE PALMA on modern filmmaking and why movies look so much worse than they used to.

Film and digital sensors are both mechanisms for recording light. I don't understand why any lighting would have to be (or would be by choice) any different when recording using a digital camera than when recording using a film camera.

Film stock is less sensitive than a digital camera. You need to throw a lot more light about. Film and digital capture colour in very different ways. While over exposed film desaturates smoothly to white, digital will skew colours and then clip, so a different lighting approach is required.