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

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Subject: Re: [Leica]S16mm Explanation
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:43:17 -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...
>

Could be.

I have been invited to private screenings for the press by ABC TV Network to
view HDTV on a 60" Plasma screen and I can only say that it actually hurt my
eyes.

Steve
Annapolis