HDR Discussion Thread

[Penton-Man]

And speaking of the Ridgecrest/China Lake film location area, you’ll remember a certain actor’s fixed wing aircraft that is not a jet and which I posted earlier in the thread pictured last winter further up north – https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...1#post16651809

well, last September it was here doing this –



with the help of - https://www.facebook.com/CineJet/

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

You have been promoting it for a year now? Worry not Penton, your message is crystal clear....

I think some of the locals got this message which I doled out hours before the flyover by the Hornet and they took advantage of it, for example…..https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...e#post15701661

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

You have been promoting it for a year now? Worry not Penton, your message is crystal clear....

hopefully so also in correcting misconceptions on social media as we’ve gone along - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...a#post16371296

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

....One neat thing about the movie is that like the Tour de France almost serving secondarily as an exceptional travelogue for the beautiful country of France for those who watched the race this year, albeit on a less grand scale and more subtlety (no narration), some filming of Top Gun: Maverick shows off the beauty of California. Not precisely revealed on social media, nor for that matter, imdb,
this scene was shot passing thru a nice neighborhood in coastal San Pedro having a fine ocean view - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...e#post16544288

and for up north in the Lake Tahoe area of California with a certain mountain in the background which also served as a backdrop setting to another film location for Top Gun: Maverick, there are winter as well as summer challenges for visitors like so -

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Waboman

I was all oiled up and on my way to the shoot when I passed the pole. I was star struck and mesmerized by it's sheer awesomeness. I couldn't move. Needless to say I lost my spot as an extra that day. But it was worth it just to be in the poles presence.

So say you.
I'll only really believe that excuse if you've got a pic of yourself caressing the pole.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

....One neat thing about the movie is that like the Tour de France almost serving secondarily as an exceptional travelogue for the beautiful country of France for those who watched the race this year, albeit on a less grand scale and more subtlety (no narration), some filming of Top Gun: Maverick shows off the beauty of California.

including, of course, “thee island” at the bay end of this bridge – https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...g#post16218767

hoping local residents were not inconvenienced too much - https://local.nixle.com/alert/7186022/

[Penton-Man]

^ , from the day of -

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

....The VX-9 Vampire squadron is represented with the insignia sticker I’ve circled -


(Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Nine)

And although the scenes are more westerly based, a shout out to TPS at Pax River, since they’re the gateway to a developmental test squadron like that at NAWS China Lake - https://soundcloud.com/navairsyscom/...t-pilot-school

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

a shout out to TPS at Pax River, since they’re the gateway to a developmental test squadron like that at NAWS China Lake - https://soundcloud.com/navairsyscom/...t-pilot-school

Because, like for any exacting profession that carries substantial responsibility, be it financial and/or especially with regards to human morbidity and mortality....first, in order to become a



one needs to be expertly trained

[kristoffer]

HDR on older films is a funny thing. Normally I am completely against anything remotely revisionist, but not so with HDR. Often it feels like you are seeing more of what the director intended even though you aren’t. Why is that?
HDR on Die Hard or Alien really enhances the experience of the film even though it is something that has been added at a later stage. Again, why is that?

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by kristoffer

HDR on older films is a funny thing. Normally I am completely against anything remotely revisionist, but not so with HDR. Often it feels like you are seeing more of what the director intended even though you aren’t. Why is that?
HDR on Die Hard or Alien really enhances the experience of the film even though it is something that has been added at a later stage. Again, why is that?

Because home video never captured the range inherent in film in the first place.

[kristoffer]

But neither did the teater experience then. WCG also helps of course.

[Wendell R. Breland]

Originally Posted by PeterTHX

Because home video never captured the range inherent in film in the first place.

The SMPTE 196M standard specifies screen brightness for cinemas, as 55 candela per square meter (16 foot lamberts), open gate (no film in the projector, just white light).

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by kristoffer

But neither did the teater experience then. WCG also helps of course.

That depends on which film format was used for both the camera and the projector. I believe that the original 3 Strip Technicolor process came damn close.

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by kristoffer

HDR on older films is a funny thing. Normally I am completely against anything remotely revisionist, but not so with HDR. Often it feels like you are seeing more of what the director intended even though you aren’t. Why is that?
HDR on Die Hard or Alien really enhances the experience of the film even though it is something that has been added at a later stage. Again, why is that?

Maybe because a higher scan is going to show the actual film master more clearly?
If it was shot on film, meaning we’re going to see all that grain now.
...The grain of films.

[Waboman]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

So say you.
I'll only really believe that excuse if you've got a pic of yourself caressing the pole.

That's a pic for a different forum.

[Penton-Man]

As a follow-up to a strike fighter squadron out of Lemoore - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...e#post16168184

the Flying Eagles sticker circled –

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by kristoffer

HDR on older films is a funny thing. Normally I am completely against anything remotely revisionist, but not so with HDR. Often it feels like you are seeing more of what the director intended even though you aren’t. Why is that?
HDR on Die Hard or Alien really enhances the experience of the film even though it is something that has been added at a later stage. Again, why is that?

despite some older film stocks not having quite 13.5 stops of Vision 3 - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...s#post13803728

the source was always compressed/squished into to a smaller dynamic range (than that capable of what celluloid can capture and what the human visual system can see) by the time you’ve viewed thee older movies be it either on TV or the theater in past years….until Dolby Vision arrived on scene

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Waboman

That's a pic for a different forum.

dude, I said pole, as in telephone - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...y#post15796247....not spear –

William Wallace, Long spears - YouTube

[Penton-Man]

LordoftheRings, have we broken thru the 200,000 views for July yet?, as today is the last day to do so. Heck, just from the last few pages we’ve posted enough illustrative pics to make a photo album.