Scanning 35mm at 4K is likely to be as good as it's gonna get, right? This link seems to indicate so: http://pic.templetons.com/brad/photo/pixels.html - So it seems like the technical capacity is there to get nearly all the info out of 35mm film, today.
I do appreciate even 720p copies of film, as the quality just looks so, so, much better than stuff from the 80s/90s targeted at VHS/DVD. The biggest sin being the idiotic producers' idea to record Pink Floyd PULSE at Earl's Court for live transmission, and thus use low quality recording equipment. It's one of the best visually-amazing concerts, and there will never be a high-quality version, ever. (After a long time to restore it, they released a DVD version, but it's not even really DVD quality.)
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Scanning 35mm at 4K is likely to be as good as it's gonna get, right? This link seems to indicate so: http://pic.templetons.com/brad/photo/pixels.html - So it seems like the technical capacity is there to get nearly all the info out of 35mm film, today.
I do appreciate even 720p copies of film, as the quality just looks so, so, much better than stuff from the 80s/90s targeted at VHS/DVD. The biggest sin being the idiotic producers' idea to record Pink Floyd PULSE at Earl's Court for live transmission, and thus use low quality recording equipment. It's one of the best visually-amazing concerts, and there will never be a high-quality version, ever. (After a long time to restore it, they released a DVD version, but it's not even really DVD quality.)