Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/15

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Subject: RE: [Leica]S16mm Explanation
From: "Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:13:04 -0500

> I touched on this topic once before. To sum up from my
> Hollywood technical
> insiders; the future of image capture for feature films will
> actually be
> S16mm. The reason, in part, is that digital HD still does not
> measure up to
> film.

I believe one of the things that makes film work so well is aliasing.  Given
film 'grain' is different from frame to frame, I bet you get quite a better
overall resolution (as far as what the eye sees) than you do with
digital...since digital places the same sensor (its grain) at the same
position in the frame from frame to frame...

One frame of a film typically looks fuzzier than when you play the film...