8K Displays Stir Moviemaker Debate Whether Such High Resolution Needed for Viewing
Looming commercialization of consumer 8K displays is stirring cinematographer debate, David Stump, director-photography for the American Society of Cinematographers, told a Display Week conference in Los Angeles Monday. Resolution in 8K “exceeds the human visual acuity and therefore is trying…
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to solve a problem, at least in some display cases, that doesn’t exist,” said Stump, whose credits include X-Men. “I’m working with a company who are building a 16K camera and who are specifically tailoring that 16K camera to a giant LED display system that is pixel for pixel the same resolution as the camera itself.” For Hollywood, “there comes a tradeoff in economics,” said Stump. “Is the amount of storage required to shoot a 4K or even an 8K project justified in the face of where it will be displayed and at what size it will be displayed? How many screen heights away from the screen do we sit on average to actually view content?”