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 Resolution As A Tool For Filmmaking

    The quality of a digital image has always been it's resolution, how many pixels make up the image. The larger the resolution, the more detail can be expressed. Though physical film does not have a pixel resolution, it has a functional resolution of the colored salts on the surface of the film, which causes each "pixel" of the film to vary from one to another. Right now most peoples monitors and displays are either 1440 or 4k, these two resolutions allow for a large quantity of detail, but they do have their limits. These limits are pushed by expensive digital cameras that can record in resolutions of 8k or above. At such levels of detail, there are no displays that could properly display them. But these cameras are not made for displaying 8000 pixels across, they are made for editors and directors, to give them room to mess up their shots and still make it work. With resolutions of this size, the frame can be zoomed in, moved, manipulated in a variety of ways and there is no distinguishable loss in quality.

The Inevitable Limit

The difference between the resolution of commercials displays has been a useful tool for editors and film makers alike. But as there is a physical limit of how many pixels could fit in given space. Eventually there will be a time in which the possible resolution to watch is the exact same that can be recorded, but at such resolutions the resolution would be so high quality there would be loss in quality perceptible to the human eye.

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