Comment on How are films recorded

• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Analogue will only allow for improved remasters for as long as screen resolutions are lower than the level of detail provided by the film grain on the master. Film doesn’t have infinite resolution, and cinema cameras are fast approaching sensor sizes that compete with film.

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  • schmidtster@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Right but even basic 35mm is above 4k in “resolution” though, or am I misremembering?

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    • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You are correct.

      The figure I was given at art college was that a well exposed and developed 35mm negative had a minimum resolution of 90 million pixels, which is higher than 8K at ~75 million.

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    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh absolutely. In terms of detail, photosensitive chemistry still has digital sensors utterly beat.

      I’m just saying the resolution isn’t endless. There’s a limit, digital tech just hasn’t caught up, is all.

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      • schmidtster@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Interesting. Things could get really interesting with AI and the sensor tech, a more sensitive sensor could get more information out of film than is currently possible I would imagine?. And then you could also use AI to fill in and enhance more from there.

        Now if only we had some screens to make it worthwhile hahah

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  • crandlecan@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ergo, analogue for now still beats digital at the highest ends of the market. There’s no digital camera outperforming the analogue ones.

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  • bestusername@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well you’re definitely right about remastering/digitising old film…

    But if Star Wars was done on old DV, Lucas wouldn’t have been able to digitally butcher it, so there’s that.

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    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Adding digital special effects to movies produced on film is done all the time. It’s no obstacle at all.

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      • bestusername@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        He probably might have remade them… Give me chills thinking about it

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