Comment on Sony will be releasing "MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL" on 4K Ultra HD on August 26.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• BertramDitore@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This release is “Native 4K.” As far as I understand it, Native 4K means it was produced from scans of the film negatives, not upscaled. These releases are usually the best possible quality with the crispest and most natural image. They might have needed to do some physical cleaning of the film, and they might have done some touch up’s here and there in post, but Native 4K is ideal, and what you want in a release like this.

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  • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hopefully this will turn out better than 4K77. Not that 4k77 was bad, its just pretty clear that the film they had access to was pretty heavily degraded when they did their scans

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    • BertramDitore@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For sure. I’ve gotta assume they used the master film for scanning Monty Python, and if it was stored properly they probably wouldn’t have to do a ton of restoration and cleaning, but I don’t know the specifics. 4K77’s work is amazing and admirable, but not really watchable to me for exactly the reason you mentioned. I don’t think any amount of cleanup would fix that kind of degradation, though it’s still an incredible representation and artifact of the film’s history. It’s a shame that project was only necessary because of the Lucas’ stubbornness.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nice :)

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• Link@rentadrunk.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What makes you think that?

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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Iirc they were broke. So probably not using great cameras that produce great results in 4k

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Because i doubt you can extract 4K image data from the physical film strips from 1975 without heavy post processing.

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    • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can, its been done before. 35mm film with a sufficiently small grain size can reach resolutions over 5k, close to 6k.

      A few years ago there was the 4k77 project which took probably cinematic reels of A New Hope and scanned them in at 4k. At that resolution, film grain was beginning to become visible, but given the high degradation of those specific film reels it isn’t surprising there were artifacts after the scans. With properly preserved film negatives you could do significantly better.

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    • Link@rentadrunk.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Wasn’t it filmed in 35mm?

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