What They Say
The Broadcast Bridge wrote an article about the continuing use of film scanners to digitise film-recorded content. It has lots of information on telecine and datacine (for digital intermediates) machines. It also talks about how the sensors can be replaced. for example, by a Sony Pregia 6.5K sensor and the article looks forward to using an 8K and even a 14K for scanning Imax content.
“All these machines come down to some kind of film transport, an LED lamp system, whatever the latest sensor in and everything else is math in the computers.”
What We Think
Well, it’s a bit of a geeky topic, but telecine has been interesting. I remember that at times when TVs have gone up in resolution, sometimes the new versions of film-sourced content have not really lived up to expectations. I remember hearing comments when HD came along that ‘all that has happened is that you can see the film grain more clearly’. However, the kind of work being done to us AI for upscaling (Google’s New AI Photo Upscaling Tech is Jaw-Dropping) could well mean very good content in the future, if the economics needed to support conversion work out. (BR)
