[Hot Stott Bot]

hd digital recordings in raw format psiga!

think about it!

does anyone do this yet?

i'm imagining big cameras wheeling around huge hard drive arrays behind them.

[Corinth]

[Corinth]

[psiga]

I'm not sure what the pro industry guys do with their scans. I presume that everybody does it differently, since there are no standards yet.

Apparently Vista has some sort of support for 'scRGB', which gives 16bits per pixel, floating point values. That ought to be enough to run an HDR display, but I'm not aware of any graphics cards or monitors which actually work in scRGB color space...
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[Corinth]

Yeah, I don't know of any displays or graphics cards like that either. But I'm sure that they're getting all of the exposure information out of the film in scanning; if they don't they're stupid. The technology for that exists now - even if your sensor doesn't have the range to do it in one take, you can do it in the same way that you'd bracket with your own digital camera. But since this is film, the scene doesn't change at all, so you could do it pretty much perfectly in four stop increments or however much you have to work with. You can certainly store such information, and even if you can't display it all on conventional displays (pro photographers and publishers keep this in mind because printers have a wider gamut than monitors) it increases the precision of any calculations or transformations you do.

[Toptube]

currently, Blu-ray has a couple of things that aren't really being used yet. it supports Y Pb / Cb Pr / Cr Super-White, which the PS3 has included support for in an older update. also, HDMI 1.3 has a feature called "Deep Color" which BD movies could eventually support, but none currently do. the PS3 is like one of two BD players right now with an HDMI 1.3 connection. most are 1.2. Most HDTV are shipping now with 1.3 so I imagine "Deep Color" support in Blu-ray transfers will be starting pretty soon.

[Corinth]

Stealth BD adverthread, amirite?

[falsedan]