Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/05

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Subject: [Leica] RE: Leica Users digest V25 #131
From: "Kenny Younts" <kenny@cablespeed.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 19:18:57 -0700

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.

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