i saw a video on youtube that was the old
McDonald’s Mac Tonight commercial from the 80s, but there was a version of it uploaded in 8k. how is it possible, considering the cameras that the commercial was shot on originally? wouldn’t the resolution program have to ‘make up’ what it thinks the details are? thanks in advance!
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If it’s shot on *film*, and you still have the film, and it’s in good condition, you can simply scan the film again in higher resolution and digitize the film. While film still has “resolution” in molecular sense, it’s… well, molecular in scale. Meaning, our “modern” quality isn’t even in broad ballpark of how much information can be stored and can be scanned from a high-quality film. And perhaps, how much more we could in 500 years (if film survived to that day).
Basically, like one phone can make poor quality pictures, but newer one can make better ones. If you still have the subject you took pictures of, now you can just take better ones.
If you don’t have film, there’s algorithms that can double the number of pixels and average or even guess (if AI or very complex algorithm is involved) the missing pixels. If there’s red pixel, then an empty place, and red pixel after that, most of the cases, missing pixel should be also red. And so forth.
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