The detail and sharpness this method produces is often stunning.
I remember that moment in astonishing detail: the sharpness of the blue sky against the mountains; the cool, moist air rising from the torrent; most of all the sense of disbelief.
It lets you zoom after the fact and still see ultra high resolution detail and sharpness.
Being able to retain 8K's incredible detail and sharpness when showing movement contributes hugely to just how good native 8K playback looks.
At its best, the 85Q900R's upscaling clearly adds more detail and sharpness, more definition and texture, that moves the picture comfortably beyond its 4K origin.
This allows the single-color pixel wells to be exposed to different parts of the image, creating tiny variations which, properly processed, create more detail and sharpness.
"Each generation of copies loses detail and sharpness, and there's always damage [to the master] along the way". To create the new generation of mounted busts—standing 8 inches tall and 4.5 inches wide the Alumni Association turned to a team that included in-house design engineers, 3-D imaging experts, and a medical artist.
Similarly, in shots in this sequence that show the alley of buildings running behind the kids down to the main street, the nearest brickwork benefits from the most extreme extra detail and sharpness, to help enhance the image's baked in sense of depth and 'real world' space.
But with digital restoration, "the original negative is kind of the Holy Grail in this kind of work because the detail and sharpness were there in the negative so we wanted to work with that".
In general, contrast enhancement is evaluated subjectively in terms of details visibility, sharpness, appearance and noise sensitivity [33].
