Controversial Opinion - Is Digital Better than Film for 4K?

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by NARMAK

Okay Geoff, thank you foe pointing it out. Your impassioned capitals were appreciated

I amended it to 8k. However i am sure at some point or other i've seen mention of a movies master being rescanned at 16K. I just can't recall for the life of me so i've put my hands up and used 8K. I 100% know 8K is a thing because Baraka used that for its master.

8K is fine, movies have been scanned (at point of capture) at 6K and 8K for years already, we just don't hear about it.

Final Frame jury rigged a 16K datacine for the 65mm material they scanned on Apollo 11, I've never heard of 16K being used prior to that. Even when IMAX scan up their massive 15-perf frames they're doing it on an Imagica XE which has an 11K sensor and outputs at 8K max.