|
It is currently 28 Apr 2024, 00:37
|
View unsolved topics | View unanswered posts
| Author |
Message |
Jump to forum Jump to topic |
| nissling |
|
Posted: 28 Jan 2022, 18:36
|
|
|
Arrived from Japan recently. Inugami has got to be one of the very best Japanese films I've ever seen. HDR was superb as well.
 |
|
 |
Jump to forum Jump to topic |
| nissling |
|
Posted: 28 Jan 2022, 21:06
|
|
|
| Yeah 12,000 yen plus shipping and taxes is pretty much my limit but out of the corn flakes sized box sets I've got (Bergman Cinema, Gamera and Herschell Gordon Lewis collection) it was still the cheapest. :lol: Also the included book is really nice. Still tho a difficult release to recommend to an average collector unless you love the film. |
|
|
Jump to forum Jump to topic |
| nissling |
|
Posted: 29 Jan 2022, 13:11
|
|
|
Regarding the HDR vs SDR thing, there are big misunderstandings regarding the actual benefit in opting for the later format.
All SDR viewing rely on that the display, monitor, projector or whatever you're using to watch the content behave like a CRT in how the input signal is being transferred to actual light ouput. It is called Power Law and is basically a more efficent way to utilize the bit depth than having a linear transfer function. Mathematically speaking it is very simple but in practise it never gets right as the reference grade CRTs that set the standards for many years are almost impossible to emulate accurately in this regard. In a home enviroment you will never get the same kind of precision, both as far as the technology goes but also when taking the enviroment into consideration.
HDR on the other hand utilizes a PQ tone curve, in which the stored data has precise light level output and therefore cannot result in just any kind of image. It's absolute and takes away all the headache that the CRT references causes us colorists. Also this makes it much easier to keep shadow detail visible without sacricing blacks.
In addition to the nominal luminance values, you also have much better headroom as you can do HDR mastering with 1000 or 4000 nits as targets (realistically speaking, tho I believe only the Dolby Pulsar offer 4000 nits). A lot of people seem to think that HDR is always supposed to be super bright and that old features shot on film therefore have no reason to be presented in HDR. This couldn't be further from the truth. Negatives from Kodak offer extremely good dynamic range. Even typical Eastmancolor (5247, 100T) can be overexposed by many steps without losing any highlights and it will all be present once the OCN has been scanned as long as the telecine operator knows his thing. Then doing the color timing in SDR is just kind of... The wrong way, considering how limited power law really is. The HDR grades I've done have been very conservative with most information at 150-200 nits and below, but the extra headroom makes it so I don't have to compromise on the APL to avoid clipping highlights whenever there are bright objects. Things like spotlights, fire, explosions, direct reflections etc are a pain to get right in SDR but in HDR you can focus on getting the APL right and then just let the highlights get brighter. Hell, you can limit yourself to 300 nits and will benefit greatly instead of opting for SDR which only is 100 nits peak brightness.
Then we also have higher bit depth, which in the case of the Criterion releases goes up to 12 bits thanks to Dolby Vision FEL (normally 10 bits with HDR10). The wider color gamut is also great for analog film as BT.709 is, once again, limited to what a color CRT from the early 60s was capable of (yes, I know that SMPTE-C came first along with NTSC but BT.709 is almost identical to EBU). I've seen plenty of UHDs and with exception for the light cannons from Sony, which you can check out here , HDR brings so many improvements to the home experience that I could only dream of for many years. It's not just an improvement, it's a revolution. Previously mentioned Akira and 2001 are spectacular on UHD. Also I loved how Anatomy of a Murder, Dr. Strangelove, Deep Red, True Romance, The Social Network, Scream, King of New York and Casino looked in HDR. There has never been a better time for film enthusiasts.
I've got both Menace II Society and Mulholland Dr on UHD from Criterion and they are some of the very best releases on the format. It took them a long time to get into this format but now they've done a bang up job and for that they deserve kudos. |
|
|
Jump to forum Jump to topic |
| nissling |
|
Posted: 29 Jan 2022, 18:20
|
|
|
I'm not a big fan of Facebook nor Zuckerberg, neither do you have to be to find the film good. It's not exactly a sympathetic portrait of Zuckerberg and its primary focus is the legal procedure rather than the site or any of its features. Fincher handles it extremely well. Considering how much you seem to hate Zuckerberg, I'd honestly recommend you giving it a watch. Pretty much all of your disgust would be confirmed anyway. In fact, I think you'd genuinely like it.
Either way, do you have anything of interest to add to this topic? Every post you've made in this thread has been complete nonsense so far with no value whatsoever. |
|
|
|
Page 3 of 3 [ Search found 54 matches ]
|
Thanks list