If we‘re talking IMAX, sure. No digital camera can reach that kind of resolution. But the standard 35mm film and even regular 70mm has been surpassed by digital cameras for a little while now, if we’re talking pure quality. Digital has higher resolution, higher dynamic range, higher sensitivity, etc.
What analogue film has is a texture and a feel that digital cannot emulate. It’s not objectively better but subjectively, it’s nicer. It has a certain look. It’s like vinyl records. They’re objectively worse than the digital masters but many still prefer them.
bestusername@aussie.zone 1 year ago
What is quality to you? The image size/resolution, the audio sample rate, the noise?
There’s a point where the difference is imperceptible.
I think it’s largely nostalgia behind replies like yours, analogue and digital are different, not a blanket better or worse.
crandlecan@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Sure… Nostalgia is what drives the movie studios… That’s why they still use analogue despite the superior results of digital, at lower total costs… 🤡!
schmidtster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I believe the difference is analog can be continuously remastered while digital you have to completely redo everything. You can’t just add pixels, well AI is changing this…
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Analogue will only allow for improved remasters for as long as screen resolutions are lower than the level of detail provided by the film grain on the master. Film doesn’t have infinite resolution, and cinema cameras are fast approaching sensor sizes that compete with film.
schmidtster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Right but even basic 35mm is above 4k in “resolution” though, or am I misremembering?
crandlecan@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Ergo, analogue for now still beats digital at the highest ends of the market. There’s no digital camera outperforming the analogue ones.
bestusername@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Well you’re definitely right about remastering/digitising old film…
But if Star Wars was done on old DV, Lucas wouldn’t have been able to digitally butcher it, so there’s that.