CP3S said:
Blurry? I saw no blurriness. It was probably the sharpest image I have ever seen. Perhaps my experiences with 70mm are too limited.
There was a very obvious softness around a lot of edges. Particularly apparant in slow scenes. It wasn't much but it's still enough to remind that you are seeing a projected image. Better than 35mm, certainly. But not a candle to 70mm.
zombie84 said:
Yeah, The Hobbit was probably the best looking movie I have seen. It was a level of clarity beyond anything. I think you are romanticizing 70mm. A lot of 70mm are grainy and look pretty bad. It's definitely not clear. Film can't be clear due to the existance of grain.
Not all film is created equal. I'm sure there's 70mm material out there that is quite terrible. Especially as it begins to age. But the 70mm stuff I saw was out of this world, very same screen actually (only 70mm capable theather in the country) so it was pretty easy to do a 1:1 comparison in my head.
I think I read something, maybe on here? Maybe some HTPC site or something, don't recall. But basically grain does not preclude clarity, it fosters it. The random sampling that grain provides essentially doubles the apparent clarity for the same amount of points because they can fall directly on whatever feature they represent and make a more faithful representation than an ordered grid of pixels. Yeah it was up in a thread about scanning Star Wars?