Baraka (1992) - 8K Scanning & Restoration Process

Baraka - 8K Scanning & Restoration Of The Original Film Stock. Baraka was shot on 70mm film and then scanned at an oversampled 8K Ultra High Resolution (8,192 pixels across the frame) with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 @96k/24bits. It was then output onto Blu-ray in Full High Definition 1080p at a 16:9 Widescreen aspect ratio. The scan done at 8K was oversampled, which means the film was scanned at a higher resolution than what was necessary for the final 1080p output that they intended and produced. The purpose of the 8K scan though was to create a super sharp, but downsampled version of the film scan once it was output at only Full HD 1080p. Thus, the resulting image from the 8K scan is a sharper quality 1080p output than if they had just scanned the film at 1080p or at a 4K scan resolution. The 1080p output from the 8K scan is also now perhaps an even better quality version of the film itself than the original film print when viewed digitally on either a 1080p or 4K display. The unanswered question thou