> I feel we reached transparency for professional analog recordings some time in the 1980s, and I would argue that this applies to analog film as well. Not sur

> I feel we reached transparency for professional analog recordings some time in the 1980s, and I would argue that this applies to analog film as well. Not sure what you mean by 'transparency'. Either way, go back and look at an 8k scan of 'Lawrence of Arabia' or 'The Sound of Music'. The image quality is robust and resolves everything perfectly. Even an '80s title captured on 35mm that is scanned properly will hold up against something shot on an Arri Alexa today. The 'blurry' reputation comes only from the subsequent formats like broadcast television and VHS that people caught a lot of these titles on.