haineshisway
Senior HTF Member
Sorry, if you're sitting in a cinema seeing grain then you're looking for it - that seems pretty obvious to meFoxyMulder said:Exactly, we don't look at film grain but when it's missing you can sure as hell tell, detail goes with it and all too often they compensate with too much sharpening which adds it's own distractions, this is something we shouldn't have to explain to people.
I want to also add that the reviews mention film grain because film fans want to know it hasn't been scrubbed clean with DNR, if they don't tell us we won't know and might end up buying a poor release.
The last film i saw in a theater was The Hangover, a digital presentation and yes i noticed the film grain, i can't say i was looking for it, it was just there, i was enjoying the film, pity about the sequels, i have never seen the blu ray so don't know if they preserved it, but it was pretty obvious in the digital presentation i saw that there was film grain, so yes some of us notice these things, it doesn't mean we are obsessed with film grain, i'd like to think i know more than the average Amazon reviewer.
Yes some film makers from the past would have loved to have shot digital with no grain, i'm sure of that, the whole point is that we should preserve the films of the past, warts and all, and present it on blu ray as close to perfection as we can, that perfection includes film grain if present when it was shot, just because we have the tools to lessen film grain or eradicate it, it doesn't mean we should, of course we then get into the argument that going off the original camera negative actually improves on the resolution of the average 35mm cinema print and we get to see things not intended in more detail, wires etc etc, and i suspect that might also mean a sharper film grain than was seen at the cinema.