Arri Alexa 65 6K Camera

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Originally Posted by SillySauce

This camera is going to crush 35mm movies. Only Imax and 65mm films like "The Master" will hold up.

"The Master" looked like crap when I saw it in 70mm at the Ziegfeld in NYC. There's no way anyone would have known it was shot 65mm if they hadn't been told.

IMO, it looked far worse than Ron Howard's "Far and Away" (1992) and that film pretty much killed any hope for further 65mm shooting. The only 65mm after that was "Baraka" (1993), "Hamlet" (1996), "Samsara" (2012) and "The Master" (2012) (aside from IMAX origination).

And regardless of the merits of this camera, for theaters who are still projecting in 2K, I don't think the image is going to look any better. You're still going to get the "screen door effect" in projection. You might be able to tell the difference if they're using a 4K projector.