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I'm not sure that 4K or 48p are the problem here.... Film has often resolved that sort of resolution and 48p, other than less motion blur, shouldn't affect the set/make up too much.   I think the bigger problem is that 3D tends to rely on a deeper DOF, so more of the set/actors are in focus for prolonged periods of time.

I've booked my seats as far back as possible to minimise the stress on my eyes. There's even a break half way through at the screening I'm going to. This is common in Germany but not in England. The Germans are very sensitive and cannot suffer Hobbits for 3 hours solid and neither will I have to, thankfully.   Full report tomorrow!

Love the style of the Japanese film Tony.   The problem today is extremely simple.   In the film industry there are too many technicians and businessmen and not enough artists.

[quote name="Matt" post="23413" time="1355306710"]You could always use it for this! :) [img=[url="http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/3166/lensmug.jpg%5D%5B/quote%5D"]http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/3166/lensmug.jpg][/quote][/url]lol! is that the 24-105? It's funny how misleading the box to this damn thing is. I thought my wife had went above and beyond on Christmas a couple years ago. I saw "L" and thought, "yes sir!" ...Only to fake a smile 10 seconds later.

    jannard is a dead man walking arri alexa has destroyed him. death by a thousand alexa use commercials every 2 weeks. he may be getting some big movies but the bread and butter money is in the shit jobs and arri have that sewn up sweet.   no disrespect but ron howard is just a bald twat from happy days another hollywood satanist : )   it is all so tired. get this out on dvd  a series of ghost stories directed by Masaki Kobayashi in 1964 in lovely toho scope. the trailer is a little dull the movie is sublime perfection : ) and scary in parts.   [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG5mvupo9Wc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG5mvupo9Wc[/url]

There seems to be a huge failure in the technology industry to appreciate beauty. Give me the fine grain in a raw file over noise reduction in a JPEG any day. Another example is excess digital processing on TVs. We all know what the dreaded 200hz smoothing mode looks like. These engineers think they are being clever with their crusade against motion blur, grain, noise and softness. They won't stop until everything looks plastic and shit. Well I am voting with my feet. I am only going to buy the cameras which offer me minimal electric tricks and maximum organic image quality, and clinical modern lenses can remain on the shelves as far as I'm concerned.

Grain, anamorphic bokeh, 24/25p, handheld camerawork. All these things actually help me to become involved in the film as a STORY. It's storytelling for God's sake!   I don't read an adventure story to a child like I'd read a news article to my colleague. The latter requires formality and stark realism to present it with proper purpose, the former needs to be told a sense of wonder and otherworldliness in order to achieve the goal: magic!   All these "unrealistic" artifacts that are part of film tradition serve the same purpose as dry ice lighting and music on a magician's stage: they take us out of the ordinary and into a place where we can almost believe the impossible may well be possible...   People appear to be forgetting thousands of years of storytelling culture because of a slightly upgraded silicon chip.