Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The SMPTE spec -- 274M --for the cinealta is 1920 x 1080 progressive. that's a lot of pixels, like a 20 MB/s stream at a 10-bit colorspace. What's the 18x24mm mtf onto Kodak vision 500t? finite resolution limits? I'd be surprised if it's twice that -- probably less than 1.5 times that. It's very true that film (arri/panaflex/aaton) cameras handle differently than the cinealta, but is it reasonable to think that cinematographers and grips will learn the differences? And the editing thing is a bit of a red herring, you can edit offline as well as you can online (offline means you're manipulating a copy and setting your editing points for editing at a later date. Online means you're chopping and pasting the final output immediately.) My $.02 >Anyway, I was watching one of the special HD channels and there >is an >interview with the director of "Desperado" and the "Spy >Kids" >franchise: Robert Rodriguez.He shoots entirely in HD (what >is called >24p - 24 frames/sec, progressive scan). There are lots >of reasons for >this as a film-maker - but some of the most >important to him are: >immediacy of the product after it's been >shot - no overnight waits for >"dailys" and no transfer from film >into the computer for editing - >you're working from the 1st >generation images all the time. Sorry, but I disagree with this Rodrigues. HD isn't anywhere in the ballpark to properly shot 35mm film. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html