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Does this mean the Epic will be 50K soon? Marcus Irvin

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My full name is Marcus Irvin and I've requested it be changed in my profile. This Wired article is just too exciting to delay posting.

Caltech/Stanford Resolution Breakthrough at

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_algorithm/

Step 1-Read this article and pay attention to the details.

Step 2-Imagine the most forward thinking camera company in the world.

Step 3-Now combine the two!

Of course the tech now requires minutes/hours per frame, but we all know Moore's Law regarding digital horsepower. At the very least, this makes the S in DSMC look better than ever. As long as you have good pixels, resolution will no longer be a limitation.

Since these algorithms won't necessarily reach this sector of digital imaging for a while, it would make sense to buy your gear from the only company in the world that actively feeds new tech into their existing customers without requiring constant equipment churn.

I'm always skeptical when free resolution is promised as it has always been BS. Read the Wired article linked above and see if this sounds like BS to you.
 
That's pretty fantastic stuff. Sounds like the only way it will pertain to the RED community or the movie industry as a whole is through storage. I can't see anything past that yet, but who knows what way to use it someone will stumble across in the future. All things considered, maybe someone will figure out a way to simply sort through the new discoveries that are taking place minute by minute. So many life changing things are happening daily that are going unnoticed simply because the right people who know how to make use of them are not aware of them.
 
Elsie N said:
That's pretty fantastic stuff. Sounds like the only way it will pertain to the RED community or the movie industry as a whole is through storage.
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I would agree except storage is constantly and thankfully getting cheaper all the time.

It seems to me this is more likely to support JJ's vision of future proof footage. For example, if your legacy Red One footage becomes valuable to an IMAX project, just run it through your RED 2011 CS Processor for IMAX resolution.
 
It reminds me of the scenes in films showing the NSA/CIA agent peering over a techies shoulders, saying "Zoom in there. Enhance. Enhance. Enhance."

Maybe there was truth to that "enhance" nonsense.
 
Great find Marcus!

Very interesting and well written piece, and apart from the possible uses, it brings up some big questions about fidelity of data and even the underlying simplicity of the universe perhaps. Certainly some philosophical discussions to be had!
 
ericyoung said:
Great find Marcus!

Very interesting and well written piece, and apart from the possible uses, it brings up some big questions about fidelity of data and even the underlying simplicity of the universe perhaps. Certainly some philosophical discussions to be had!
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Are you saying we simply exist as fractured fractals!!!??? Oh, the horror.
 
Who is making the optics, Lincoln Labs or Ball Aerospace? :-)
 
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