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Post #337456

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zombie84
Parent topic
Lord of the Rings on Blu Ray
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Date created
23-Nov-2008, 2:50 PM

Its not just resolution though. Its the quality of the image. I would never shoot on the RED because it doesn't look very nice, I can shoot with 16mm for the same price and it will look beautiful. Until HD gets its aesthetics worked out, it aint going anywhere with DP's. They solved the depth of field problem, the color space issue almost worked out, but there's still a lot of issues with image quality. Resolution is simple, its just a storage issue, thats the most elementary to solve and it really was a matter of time before it appeared. And case in point, its irrelevent--35mm is not the be-all end-all for resolution. Theres IMAX and 65mm. Why isn't everyone shooting in IMAX and 65mm? Why arent most TV series and feature films shot in these formats? Because going beyond 35mm resolution was never the problem. Cost and feasibility is. There's no way 28K would ever be practical, and even when you start shooting in 10K there is enormous post-flow logistics that simply aren't cost-effective. 35mm became the standard because it was the most efficient trade-off between cost, affordability, and quality. While its exciting that the next-gen RED cams are making steps in HD, I think most people sort of suspected that we would see HD sort of competing and/or overtaking film by 2020 anyway.