Now they can witness bribery scenes in super high definition.

Peter

I've seen and heard NHK's Super Hi-Vision years ago at NAB. TBH not really all that impressed as it was all about pixel count and not about pixel depth. By comparison Sony's demo of 4K on a large screen was jaw dropping.

The issue with NHK's system seemed to me to be how they were able to claim it had 8K resolution. The camera had 3 chips but one was much larger than the other two, no doubt it was the green sensor. So, yes the luma would have had 8K res but not the chroma. The lenses would have been another issue.

Sony on the other hand were using footage taken from 8K scans of 65mm camera negative shot for Baraka.

Bob.

Lol, TD.

What Is the Resolution of the Human Eye?


VMP

Human eyes and film operate on completely different principles and any attempt at putting out some number out there describing their resolution is ridiculous.

You can't think in those terms. Why is it so difficult for people to understand this?

It's like trying to decide which cat looks the prettiest while staring at a bunch of dogs.

deusx,

I think if your eye had 240x resolution HD or anything beyong would be unoticable.
You could simulate this by straping on VR glasses with 240 res.


VMP

[i]"any attempt at putting out some number out there describing their resolution is ridiculous"[/]

Well, no, not really. There is some resolution X at which your eyes can still individually resolve all the 'bits', while at some higher resolution Y the eye cannot any longer. Therefore it is useful to say that the eye's resolution is somewhere between X and Y. The same goes for film.

The physics and measurement might be different, but the concept remains.

>>>>There is some resolution X at which your eyes can still individually resolve all the 'bits', <<<

An eye does not resolve any bits ( yeah, I see quotation marks ) nor does it deal with any kind of resolution . You could try to come up with some approximations that would help us compare that to the digital, but there's no point really. Also, a lot of it would be very subjective.

What if I transplant eagle eyes into my head? Would that increase the resolution or would it be like just adding a telephoto lens to a camera?

I personally look at it from a different angle. I would use the term dpi, like a scanner or printer. So if you print an image at a fixed dot size, as small as possible, at what dpi can the eye no longer see the empty space between the dots and would see a solid? Now remember the CRT days? A good CRT had a high dpi, something that is totally missing in today's LCDs. A 32inch monitor at 1920x1080 can either have very big pixels or a big gap between them. The same 32inch monitor at 4K will certainly have smaller pixels and a smaller gap. So; how high does the resolution have to be before the eye can no longer see individual pixels, no matter how close you go and that should be the maximum resolution.