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Peter Schoell
Film Handler

Posts: 47
From: Paynesville, MN, USA
Registered: Jul 2001

posted 02-25-2002 11:57 AM

I suppose this is mostly to John @ Kodak, but I know there are many other forum contributors who have knowledge in this subject.

I thought I remembered reading a few years ago that Kodak was going develop a way to get more quality into the movie film image.
Whatever happened to that project?
I'd been waiting to hear how Kodak was going to do this, when I find out they are getting into Digital.
As someone who did advertising photography for over 25 years, I shot many thousand square feet of Kodak products, and I'm always amazed at the lack of quality of an individual frame when looked at with a lupe.
I understand the film we run through our projectors is many generations away from the original. Is the actual shot neg as clean and crisp and clear as Ectachrome?

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

Posts: 9532
From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 02-25-2002 04:46 PM

I believe it was called SCREEN CHECK and i think the exhibitors basiclly said we are not paying the cost of doing it right

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John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 02-25-2002 09:09 PM

The Kodak ScreenCheck Program is still alive, but the emphasis is on Projection Training and Cinema Evaluation:
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/screencheck/

Kodak also has an "Enhanced Theatrical Experience" development program, that has resulted in a new intermittent design and a new lamphouse design that are much more efficient in putting light on the screen. This work was published in the November 2001 SMPTE Journal. Kodak is also working closely with release print laboratories to evaluate and improve the procedures used, resulting in steadier, sharper and cleaner prints. Finally, Kodak is developing new "Digital Intermediate" technologies that may enable 70mm image quality from 35mm originals --- Dr. Roger Morton has presented the first results of this work at the SMPTE Technical Conference in NYC.

KODAK VISION Color Negative Films have superb image structure compared to their "unmoving" cousins:
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/products/negative/index.shtml

Scanned at 4K resolution, each full 35mm frame contains at least 12 million pixels of information:
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/story/fact.shtml
http://www.kodak.com/country/US/en/motion/story/fact3.shtml

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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: 585-477-5325 Cell: 716-781-4036 Fax: 585-722-7243
E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion

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