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Post #687296

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danny_boy
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Give Star Wars a break for 6 months or more...watch with a critical eye
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Date created
2-Feb-2014, 10:13 AM

LexX said:

I like how every post from danny has to include the remark of him owning some 4K equipment, like we should be in awe or something.

No I don't expect anyone to be in awe of 4K.

I want them to understand that it is not some magic number that will resolve all the flaws that maybe inherent in an anlogue production like the original Star Wars.

4K will  merely highlight the limitation of the resolution of the optical dupes that constituted large parts of the original camera negative. that made up Star Wars back in 1977.

4K works best with footage that has been shot "in camera".

2001 Space Odyssey and Alien  fit into this bracket.

Close Encounters,Superman I and Star Trek The Motion Picture(and Star Wars) on the hand featured so many optical composites that 4K scans(and subsequent projection) would accentuate the disprecancies that exist between 1st generation negative (that features no optical compositing) and dupe negative(for all the VFX).

This makes for a very uneven presentation.

The lower resolution of 35mm projection(relative to 2K or 4K) and the obviously even much lower resolution of VHS and laserdisc obscured these same discrepancies.