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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MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 7 months agoAnalogue 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.
crandlecan@mander.xyz 7 months ago
bestusername@aussie.zone 7 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.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Adding digital special effects to movies produced on film is done all the time. It’s no obstacle at all.
bestusername@aussie.zone 7 months ago
He probably might have remade them… Give me chills thinking about it
schmidtster@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Right but even basic 35mm is above 4k in “resolution” though, or am I misremembering?
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 7 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.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 7 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.
schmidtster@lemmy.world 7 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
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
We have electron microscopes. As long as you have time (which when you’re recording actors doing a scene, you don’t) we have the tech to look at things at any scale we want.
We wouldn’t even need AI, just a way to illuminate the film and some optics to project it at wherever scale we need onto a sensor, and we could scan every frame on a film down to the molecular level if we wanted.
Composited the resulting scan data into digital video would be trivial, and the resulting file would have a level of quality higher than what any digital sensor could have recorded directly.