Belladonna of Sadness 4K UHD (1973)

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Originally Posted by ajaystewart

Everyone likes grain here. Some people just don't like unnatural sandpaper grain exaggerated by HDR or multigen copies Not the intended look.

Are the sandpaper grain gang the flat earthers of the video community? Feels that way with the nonsense they're spouting.

Some of you guys are clinging too hard to the early UHD's with maximum grain augmented by the lightcannon HDRs that Sony used to do and believe that means HDR and grain are really incompatible. They're not, if they're grain managed. But grain managed doesn't mean ''wipe it completely.''

You can have HDR and grain together. Of course you *have* to handle the grain in some way, but I don't think people are ASKING to leave the grain completely intact as it was when scanned.

Grain management as it is it's fine, we get it. Some of us grain fetishists don't want the grain to be intact as it is on the raw negative or film scan, that'd look beyond ugly. Some of us are even FINE with digital grain if a restoration REALLY must DNR the hell out of a picture to make it good in 4K HDR.