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Old 06-14-2010, 07:10 PM   #1018
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Originally Posted by Douglas R View Post
I saw the film in 70mm and I don't recall it being particularly grainy. I admit to being baffled by the enthusiasm by some posters to always want to see grain. For decades, cinematographers have tried their hardest to make films as free of grain as possible (when Technirama was introduced it was promoted as being "free from graininess"). This is now being turned on its head with this perverse liking for grain.
It's not that we want to see the grain, it's that we don't want to lose the fine detail in the image which is removed when the grain is removed.
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