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"35mm is as good as 4k..."

I had an interesting conversation with Neil Hatton, Chief Exec of the UK Screen Association at IBC earlier today and he said, "35mm is as good as 4k (if its shot well). It’s having a resurgence because the pain of processing is no worse that the pain of processing the data."


Do you agree?
  • It's good to start a discussion about this.  We've become so accustomed to higher and higher resolution digital video over the last few years that we've tended to forget about the (sometimes quite objectionable, once you notice them) artifacts that can appear due first of all to discrete sampling and secondly to lossy compression.  Analogue film can suffer from all sorts of problems, such as noise (due to specks in the image caused by dirt) and restricted optical transfer function high frequencies (due to chemical image resolution limitations), but with a well managed shooting and processing environment it can provide very, very good results.