How can anyone actually defend film? >MUH GRAIN >MUH

up until like 2011 you could make a case that film was superior to any commercially available digital camera, film could simply record more information, but that definitely changed when ARRIRAW became available for the Alexa and people realized how powerful the ALEV III sensor was. film became an aesthetic choice after that -- which is not nothing, because this is all in service of art after all -- but those aesthetic properties are not some mysterious alchemical process, they're definable and they're replicable with digital. in the past few years knowledgeable people with sharp eyes have seen head-to-head tests of film vs. digital (with the digital image graded to resemble film) and their ability to discern which is which has consistently not been any better than if they were to guess at random.