> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darren New [mailto:dne### [at] sanrrcom]
> Chambers wrote:
> > Up until a few years ago, everything was done on film.  Film doesn't
> > have resolution.
>
> Yes, it does. It's called "grain". Look at really old film (or see the
> opening scenes in the newer Casino Royale James Bond film for a
> post-processing effect).

True, and it's one of those differences between the ideal and reality.  In 
reality, film grain limits the effective resolution of the image.

> > IIRC, Ep II was the first movie filmed entirely with digital cameras,
> > and they were HD cameras.
>
> But they were only 1280x1024 tricolor-pixel cameras, so it's not even
> what
> you get on a HDTV, if I recall correctly.

Cool, I didn't remember the exact resolution.  I do remember that they 
couldn't carry the storage on the camera; they had to use multiple 
cables[1] from each camera to a separate storage server, where the images 
were stored uncompressed[2] for processing.

[1] Due to high bandwidth needs, I'm pretty sure they used multiple cables 
per camera.
[2] Film / audio used in a studio is usually stored uncompressed for 
processing.  But everyone here probably already knows that...

...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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