Re: [AMIA-L] Looking for...

[Bob Curtis-Johnson <bob@AMIPA.ORG>]

Not having gone through a period as a projectionist, I've only begun to
hear rhapsodic reports of the fidelity of carbon-arc projection. Do you
suppose as we are going into digital projection we are facing the same
sense of loss of image fidelity?

Bob Curtis-Johnson
Technical Director
Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association
907-279-8433
1325 Primrose Street
Anchorage AK  99508  USA


On Friday, July 26, 2002, at 11:39 AM, Arthur Gaer wrote:

> But not unimportant, as I've always
> assumed that it was pretty much impossible to eliminate changeovers and
> develop full automation until there was a light source that required far
> less frequent manual intervention than carbon-arcs.
>
> And the cinema audiences of the world are much worse off as a
> result--especially if they prefer to see their films actually in focus.
>
> Arthur Gaer
> gaer@math.harvard.edu