Because i doubt you can extract 4K image data from the physical film strips from 1975 without heavy post processing.
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Link@rentadrunk.org 1 month agoWhat makes you think that?
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month 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.
Link@rentadrunk.org 1 month ago
Wasn’t it filmed in 35mm?
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Iirc they were broke. So probably not using great cameras that produce great results in 4k