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…
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bestusername@aussie.zone 7 months agoWhat 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.
schmidtster@lemmy.world 7 months ago
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 7 months 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 7 months ago
Right but even basic 35mm is above 4k in “resolution” though, or am I misremembering?
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 7 months ago
You are correct.
The figure I was given at art college was that a well exposed and developed 35mm negative had a minimum resolution of 90 million pixels, which is higher than 8K at ~75 million.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Oh absolutely. In terms of detail, photosensitive chemistry still has digital sensors utterly beat.
I’m just saying the resolution isn’t endless. There’s a limit, digital tech just hasn’t caught up, is all.
crandlecan@mander.xyz 7 months 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 7 months 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.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Adding digital special effects to movies produced on film is done all the time. It’s no obstacle at all.
crandlecan@mander.xyz 7 months 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… 🤡!