Comment by qingcharles

Comment by qingcharles 10 hours ago

I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. What you're hinting at is that a lot of original 35mms are now getting scanned and uploaded privately, especially where all the commercial releases on Blu-ray and streaming are based on modified versions of the original movies, or over-restored versions.

These can be especially hard to find as the files are typically enormous, with low compression to keep things like grain. I see them mostly traded on short-lived gdrives and Telegram.

squigz 10 hours ago

> I see them mostly traded on short-lived gdrives and Telegram.

Someone tell this community to share over BT. Aint nobody got time to keep up with which platform/server everyone is on and which links are expired and yuck.

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sersi 8 hours ago

The main reason they are not shared as widely is that there's a bit of conflict within the community between those that really want to stay under the radar and not risk being targeted by copyright owners (and so try to keep things very much private between the donors who funded the 600-900 usd cost of the scans) and those who want to open up a bit more and so use telegram, reddit and upload to private trackers.

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piperswe an hour ago

I would be surprised if they didn't end up on the prestigious private trackers

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eviks 8 hours ago

> with low compression to keep things like grain.

But you have algorithmic grain in modern codecs, so no need to waste so much space for noise?

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behringer 8 hours ago

This grain looks extremely fake.

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wiseowise 4 hours ago

Because one is genuine physics and another is a fake crap?

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- eviks 4 hours ago
  
  the calculations and the photons sent to your eyes are all genuine physics
  
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  phantasmish 3 hours ago
  
  One’s an accurate recording of how a real thing looked.
  The other’s fake noise.
  One’s a real photo from 1890. The other’s an old-timey instagram filter.
  It makes sense that some folks might care about the difference. Like, I love my old family Polaroids. I would not want a scanned version of those to have the “noise” removed for compression’s sake. If that had been done, I’d have limited interest in adding fake noise back to them. By far my favorite version to have would be the originals, without the “noise” smoothed out at all.
  Lots of folks have similar feelings about film. Faked grain isn’t what they’re after, at all. It’s practically unrelated to what they’re looking for.
  
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