CinemaCon 2015, Digital Film Technologies WetGate Film Scanner

[@EdwinStreet]

Another great interview. I've seen this process be used on some blu-rays. Check out the Jaws blu-ray, looks amazing and used a watgate process.

[@Neojhun]

Good quality Super 35 film has enough detail way beyond 4K. Cant wait to see some prestine film classics on 4K+ displays. Fingers crossed a majority of them are at that level.

[@CineTechGeek]

Neojhun I am not sure where this myth comes from. Certain 35mm film can have a very fine grain structure. (HiCon film used for specific purposes for example) However, typical 35mm film used in shooting live action does not have the resolution you speak of. at best its about 3.5k. Thats what you can typically scan out of it under best conditions.. When it comes to a PRINT and it has to go through at least 4 generations of random grain imprints to other random grain. It is no where near that anymore. In the days of Cineon, (which I worked on) the average resolution was only 2K, the 4K scan is double the mean, hoping to capture the randomness of the grain and therefore, keeping the 2K effective temporal resolution. Film got slightly better after that time, but not much... If you like film grain, fine, but if you want the most realistic, like a window, 4K (a screen height away at least..) and there is nothing better.. Its the scientific fact.. The only real issue is the contrast of digital, (Black levels) is not quite matching film, but with the new Dolby like laser projector, Film can never match the contract of digital projectors made that way. So sorry, Film is truly outclassed by what can now be seen digitally. But then again, you can say that about audio too, but the vinyl fanatics still are a vocal group....