Originally posted by: DarkGryphon2048Well, it just preserves what's on the celluloid of the reels of film. Depending on the film, it'll have very high to even moderate and low grain. Due to alot of the times the film stock being used and the artistic choices of the Director and Director of Photography.
True, but removing the grain does result in a loss of real, visual data does it not? While grain may not be as clear in comparison to what you would see with your naked eye, removing grain, once an image was captured in a grainy way, will result in a loss of detail on some level. In other words, that grain was produced by a real image being distorted. Therefore to smooth out the image from the grainy image, you'd need to further deteriorate what was originally captured. That's what I worry the most about losing.
I understand what you mean about the artistic use of grain too. I think it looks very nice at times and I'd certainly want to see what a particular artist intended for his or her work.