8mm Forum: Anyone seen THE HATEFUL EIGHT projectedf via 2K?

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Posted by Adrian Winchester (Member # 248) on January 22, 2016, 09:11 AM:

I ask - specifically in relation to 2K digital projection - because the chief projectionist at a community cinema I'm involved in is concerned that technical factors including the digital release being 4K and the 2:76:1 aspect ratio will result in picture quality that's worse than DVD, so I'd appreciate the thoughts of anyone who has ACTUALLY SEEN IT projected via a 2K. I thought roughly about half of cinema screens have 2K projection so that's going to be a lot of unhappy customers if the image is that bad, even if plenty don't notice! We would have liked to have the option of 35mm but for some reason there's no 35mm prints here despite 35mm availability in the USA. So if you're in a position to see it on 70mm and have not yet done so, this might add to the incentives!

Posted by Patrick Walsh (Member # 637) on January 22, 2016, 01:52 PM:

I'm screening it on my 2k projector at my cinema, the DCPs where sent out as 4k, the image looks fine, There is quiet a number of films that are sent out as 4k DCPs and they all run fine on 2K projectors, it has been formatted to get the full width of the 70mm image on the screen so it has black bars top and bottom.

Posted by Adrian Winchester (Member # 248) on January 22, 2016, 02:18 PM:

Patrick - many thanks for your reply, that's extremely helpful. Would you say that even a quite fussy viewer wouldn't think the picture quality looks at all inferior to other current releases?

Posted by Patrick Walsh (Member # 637) on January 23, 2016, 02:15 AM:

it just looks like any other film in terms of brightness etc, one thing I notice is films that where shot on film look sharper than films shot on video, H8 being a 65mm neg (I think) looks very sharp.

Posted by Adrian Winchester (Member # 248) on January 23, 2016, 09:01 AM:

Thanks again, that's very reassuring. I get the impression that the number of films being shot on film is perhaps rising, so hopefully there will be no shortage of them to compare with digital ones. If you screen 'Carol' I expect it will have the softer look with conspicuous grain that we found, but that was shot on Super 16. I think some of the critics are applauding the look that Super 16 gives it, even if they don't know that this is the shooting format!

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