Anyone else find this amusing?

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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
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Main Entry: film

Date: 1602

transitive senses
1 : to cover with or as if with a film
2 : to make a motion picture of or from <film a scene>

intransitive senses
1 : to become covered or obscured with or as if with a film
2 : to make a motion picture
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It will be interesting to see if the lack of sharpness in the live action scenes translates into the DVD version. I certainly noticed the softness again today when I went to see the IMAX version in Rochester this afternoon at Cinemark Tinseltown. IMHO, medium and long shots just lacked any real detail. The CGI (e.g., Yoda) was sharper than the live action. However, the blacks were rich (very black) in the IMAX film print, although sometimes lacking detail in the shadows.

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Having had access to a copy of the DVD for a few weeks now for review purposes I will say that I found the image quality to be surprisingly good. I guess HD origination simply works better in the home theater realm. I feel the DVD version has richer blacks and better shadow detail than the 35mm and D-Cinema versions, which can certainly help in giving the impression of an overall better image. (I saw the movie seven times in the theater, by the way, in seven different theaters, and in three different presentation types.) I agree that many of the medium and long shots are noticeably softer than the close-ups (but then this is generally true of most origination formats -- a matter of perception, I suppose). The great thing about the Episode II DVD is that it appears to be largely free of many of the anomalies, artifacts and annoyances (ringing, pixelization, etc.) that are present on too many DVDs. Is this a result of the digital origination and direct transfer to DVD? Perhaps. Lucasfilm and Fox are certainly hyping the DVD as being the first "all digital" live-action movie issued on DVD. Which it is not; there have already been a handful of others.

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I wanted to throw something big and heavy at the radio by the time he was finished.

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I think that would qualify as an appropriate use of a QuBit server.

(EDIT: I thought that the C didn't look like a Q. It's actually a capital 'B' also. I've been up for too many days... picture uploads work though. )

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Saying "Digitally Filmed" tries to capture the aura and "look" of film cinematography.

Too often, articles try to make film seem old-fashioned by referring to it as "celluloid".

Look at it another way: Kodak sells 12-megapixel sensors in bulk roll form for less than 4 cents ($0.04 US) each, that have a dynamic range and color gamut that far exceed any digital camera:
here More to the Story
here Film/Digital Comparison

Yet, Kodak is a leader in Digital Imaging technology too:
here New 11-megapixel Kodak Sensor
here CMOS vs. CCD
here Kodak Image Sensor Solutions

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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: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243
e-mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
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