LFNR—Large Format Negative Repurposing
Ben Brunkhardt · SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal · 2006
Filmmaking occasionally encounters projects that cannot be practically choreographed or economically recreated multiple times, or in some cases it is not feasible or economically practical to photograph an event with multiple cameras. The Large Format Negative Repurposing process addresses these problems with a novel application for 70mm film in which the large format negative is composed as a wide master scene from which various types of shots, both static and moving, can be extracted without undesirable grain, resolution, or motion artifacts, using a specially equipped telecine. An example is presented in which the process was used for the production of a historical short subject.