[Tig] A Star is Born - 6K Restoration

Thu May 29 09:52:35 PDT 2008

In a message dated 5/29/08 9:35:46 AM, simon at rpsfilmimaging.co.uk writes:

> You're the second person to bring up the IMAX 5.7K resolution softness in 
> the last few days.
> 

Yeah, it's poo, and I don't mind saying that here since I've said it to David 
Keighley personally, but not in a mean way :-) And for some reason they keep 
showing it, even though it obviously doesn't look good. My theory is they 
didn't reduce spot size (or couldn't) and are getting beam overwrites, and David 
sort of agreed. Their 4K looks fine, no problem at all.

But if you do go to a small, thinner beam, how long does it take you to shoot 
out a reel? My impression is that it would start turning into geological 
time, and the jobs I get generally need to be finished still in the Holocene. At 
least before the end of the Anthropocene :-)

Tim Sassoon
SFD vfx & creative post
Santa Monica, CA

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