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2 standing the test of time An introduction >>> Film archives are of great historical importance as they represent an important part of human culture developed over more than a century. Unfortunately, many of these films are in either poor or bad condition and the content will be lost forever if not digitized soon. Before digitizing film, it is important to consider the resolution required to scan the film at the beginning of such a preservation process. In fact, it seems reasonable to conclude that the only limitation that should be applied at the scanning stage is the information-carrying capacity of the film itself. This paper examines the questions of just what that limit is, what the required parameter values are both analog and digital to capture it, and what practical issues are relevant in designing a film scanner that pursues such values
3 MTF on Camera Negative Film (Eastman Kodak 5274) MTF on Camera Negative Film (based on ITU test results) Figure 1 Figure 2 Reference : ITU report by Vittorio Baroncini, Hank Mahler, Matthieu Sintas and Thierry Delpit Notes: The Information Capacity of 35 mm Motion Picture Film The predominance of 35mm in motion picture cinematography means that film scanners should primarily consider the image frame formats associated with this gauge. In calculating how much information a 35mm film can hold in digital terms, it is necessary first to begin with the Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) characteristics of a particular film sample. This complex analog quantity must then be transformed into a digital equivalent, via the application of sampling theory. MTF on film First, we consider the published data for the MTF of a particular film stock. We can assume we will find the highest readings on a camera negative. The example shown in Figure 1 is taken from the manufacturer s data for Eastman Kodak 5274 color camera negative. Modulation in the three color layers is plotted out to 80 line pairs/ millimeter (lp/mm) at a level around 45% in the green recording layer, with blue a bit higher and red much lower. However, this is not necessarily the level of modulation that would be obtained in practice. To expose an image on film, we have to get it there via a camera and taking lens. Lenses have MTF responses, too; the image resulting on the film is therefore a convolution of the lens characteristics with the film s own response. A useful test that incorporated this fact was conducted by the ITU in as part of a project known as Large Screen Digital Imagery. Although the overall objective was to examine film answer print and release print resolution, the data that was collected also included measurements of the MTF of the original camera negative (OCN) (Figure 2). In this test, the ITU measured a close-to-limiting 1 modulation 1. The horizontal lines / picture height scale is format-sensitive, here based on a frame mm x mm (1.85:1). Slightly higher numbers would occur with a Super 35 mm frame, but the added line pairs/mm scale is absolute and can be compared with the scale in Figure The Normal lens means spherical, as opposed to an anamorphic lens used in another part of the test sequence. depth of 6% at 106 lp/mm, on the OCN (Eastman Kodak 5274). The ITU s report also included information on the camera lenses used. Although these were normal production lenses, they were set to a fixed aperture for optimum MTF, i.e. minimizing resolution losses from both aberrations and diffraction (a constraint that might not always be possible in a normal production). A typical production process ; might not use a standard taking lens and opt instead for a zoom lens, likely reducing the resultant film exposure and resolution will be impacted accordingly. It could therefore appear that rather than the highest spatial resolution indicated on the manufacturer s data sheet of a film stock (80 lp/mm at 45%), the close-to-limiting resolution of 106 lp/mm at 6% found by the ITU might be a possible target for capturing all of the information on the highest quality 35mm film. However, this has to be considered in the context of three interrelated parameters: limiting resolution, sharpness, and aliasing, because these are the factors that concern us when 1 - If the ITU s result at 80 lp/mm of 17% is compared with Kodak s published figure of about 45% for the same frequency, the difference may seem large. However, the MTF difference can be explained by the way the film was exposed (through a good-quality practical production lens, through a scientific diffraction-limited lens, or using no lens at all?). In any case, the two sets of data merely illustrate possible targets for a film scanner to aim for, and should not necessarily be compared directly 4 5
4 MTF and Alias of a single sensor approach with Bayer CFA MTF and Alias of a 3 sensor approach Figure 3 Figure 4 we make the transition from the scanned with a digital sensor. Limiting the target resolution to We must therefore consider how scanner? Before we conclude occurring within the window. analog information on the film Avoiding such aliasing is the 80 lp/mm rather than 106 lp/ many millimeters total distance that 4K is indeed the answer, The window therefore has its to a digital representation in the most important factor in deciding mm, therefore, makes sense, we are scanning horizontally. let us look a little more closely at own MTF, which is convolved scanner. the necessary digital resolution because the reduced MTF via For Super 35mm format, this is the scanning function. (mathematical operation on Limiting Resolution, Sharpness and Aliasing At an MTF of 6%, the ITU s measured result at 106 lp/ mm on the developed OCN was evidently close to the theoretical limiting resolution of the film stock; the response at much lower spatial frequencies 20 to 50 lp/ mm has a better correlation with perceived sharpness. However, what is important about the limiting resolution is the potential for any of the film scanner. Nevertheless, the conclusion has to be that reading film information at 106 lp/mm is not of the highest significance, because it is at too low a level either to be visually significant or to trigger visible aliasing. Instead, the ITU s measurement at 80 lp/mm in the same curve seems more meaningful, because it is higher in level at about 17%, and also because it confirms the validity of the the camera lens has already led to a much lower modulation level, so that any aliasing that does occur from frequencies beyond this will effectively be invisible. (provided the film scanner sensor s pixel layout is appropriately chosen) From MTF to Scanner Resolution We need to find the number of pixels required on the scanner s sensors to read 80 lp/mm on the film and describe the information 24.92mm across the exposed frame width, meaning that we need enough horizontal pixels to read 80 x or 1994 line pairs total. Sampling theory tells us that since a line pair is one complete cycle of a sine wave, Nyquist frequency for the sensor will equal the line pair count per scan line, and therefore pixel frequency will be a minimum of twice this (Standard Nyquist Theory), or 3988 pixels per scan line. Is our answer therefore that we need at least a true 4K Another MTF to Consider! A digital scanner is analogue in one sense: its sensor has its own MTF. This arises because each digital sample has to be created by looking through a window at the continuous information on the film. The window is of course an individual pixel, but because the pixel measures just one level for the whole of its window, it must average all the variations two functions producing a third function) with the MTF of the information on the film (which is itself a convolution, as discussed earlier), reducing the detected level of the detail on the film even further. In the context of an image sensor, this function is also known as the geometric MTF of the sensor (to distinguish it from other sources of resolution loss in solid-state image sensors). Like the MTF curves for the film, the geometric MTF curve has a limiting modulation at this frequency to induce visible aliasing when limit of 80 lp/mm plotted on the Kodak curves in Figure 1. in the popular K 2 notation, i.e. quoting only the horizontal axis. 2 - Example: 4K means 4096 pixels of horizontal resolution, 2K means 2048 horizontal pixels, etc. Vertical pixel count is not stated, because it can be calculated from the aspect ratio, since pixels in film scanning are usually square 6 7
5 System MTF above f N will wrap around the camera lens, the MTF Nevertheless, further as shown to produce a high of the scanner s projection examination of practical evidence frequency alias lens and the geometric MTF indicates that provided the a much higher signal frequency close to f S will produce a much lower-frequency alias. created by the layout of the pixels in the scanner s sensors are all multiplied together in determining the system MTF between scene details and the sensor layout is optimally chosen (close to 100% fill factor, 100% active pixels), all resolution up to the 80 lp/mm for OCN published by film stock manufacturers can digital data captured by the be adequately captured with a Figure 5 frequency and a shape. Unlike the film MTF, however, the geometric MTF curve has a very regular shape and a very clearly defined limiting frequency. Because sampling is involved, the geometric MTF curve also has an alias curve associated with it, also of very regular shape and extent. However, the layout of the pixels on the sensor has a profound effect on the geometric MTF curve and its aliasing, as will be seen later. And Yet Another MTF! Between the film and the sensor is the scanner s own lens, which has its own MTF, too. However, since this lens operates under completely fixed geometry, with a magnification factor close to unity, and with very favorable lighting conditions, it can avoid the optical compromises inherent in most camera lenses. For example, it can be set to operate with a fairly small aperture, thus making any lens aberrations insignificantly small, while the relatively large optical format of the film and sensors means that diffraction losses are also very small. Furthermore, defocusing loss with irregular film can be minimized via a large depth of field. In total, therefore, the convolution of the scanner lens MTF with the other MTFs can be designed to be quite insignificant (see Figure 5 ) The left side of Figure 3 shows some pixels (photosites) in a single sensor scanner, and on the right the resulting geometric MTF and alias responses with no prefiltering, i.e. input frequencies are allowed to extend beyond the Nyquist limit f N to sampling frequency f S and beyond. The Nyquist limit is a function of the pixel pitch: the smaller the pitch, the higher the Nyquist frequency. The geometric MTF (solid curve) of this layout is quite high (90%) at f N, but the undesired alias is also 90% at f N and does not decay very rapidly back towards zero frequency. This is a consequence of the particular sensor layout, where the shape of both MTF and alias curves is governed by the ratio of active photosites (e.g. only green pixels are active) to available photosites, in this case 50%. Considering the effect of the Color Filter Array (CFA) on aliasing: a signal frequency below f N will theoretically produce no alias a signal frequency not far The concern here is that from f N onwards the alias amplitude is the same as that of the signal frequency that causes it. While the sensor layout gives a high geometric MTF, it also produces high alias amplitudes. Most seriously, the amplitude remains high in alias frequencies close to zero, which are much more visible than aliases at high frequencies. In Figure 4, the sensor now has 100% active (touching) photosites, i.e. photosite pitch equals photosite width. The geometric MTF (solid curve) of this layout is now lower (63%) at f N than with the Bayer pattern, but we can see too that the undesired alias amplitude is also lower at f N and, most importantly, decays very rapidly towards zero amplitude at zero frequency. Figure 5 shows that the MTF of the film in conjunction with 3 - True 4K means: a 4K sensor per colour channel RGB film scanner. Nyquist frequency in the scanner corresponds to approximately 80 lp/mm on the film. So, is 4K the Optimum Scanning Resolution? What the above sections initially suggest is that if a film scanner were designed to capture all resolution up to the ISO limiting resolution, alias-free, in the most extreme cases, such a scanner could be calculated to require a digital resolution much higher than 4K, perhaps as much as 11K digital resolution. An 11K scanner would be extremely expensive and slow in operation, and could have poor performance in other parameters, such as signalto-noise ratio. However, in the majority of projects, the extra scanner pixels would not be capturing any additional image information compared to a lower resolution machine. true 4K 3 sensor architecture, because any aliases arising from unfiltered signal frequencies above this will either be: at very high frequencies and low amplitude and therefore not visible, or at lower frequencies and so reduced in amplitude by the pixel fill factor as to be invisible. Scanning a first-generation OCN is also the extreme case. What the ITU tests also showed (Figure 2) was that after just one film generation (Print), the MTF fell to zero well before 106 lp/ mm and even at 80 lp/ mm was only about 4%; in fact, 20% modulation level was maintained only to about 50 lp/mm. This second generation s information content could therefore be captured adequately with far less scanning resolution than 4K; 8 9
6 probably a 2.5K scanner would suffice, providing the capturing sensor system was true 2.5K RGB, and not a single sensor with a Bayer Pattern CFA. Benefits of the True 4K Design Decision There are several benefits to limiting the information captured from 35mm film to that, which is useful, i.e. scanning at 4K maximum. The most important is the speed advantage. It is now possible to construct a high quality 4K scanner that can run at up to >15 frames/second. Although this is achieved partly by the adoption of some special techniques, such a speed would not be possible at a higher resolution of, say, 6K or 8K, because of the limited electron charge integration capability of the much smaller sensor photosite area (one quarter the area, assuming 8K versus 4K and equal fill factors). Conversely, attempting to run an 8K scanner at the same speed as at 4K would severely degrade the signal-to-noise ratio, detracting from the theoretical resolution benefit in the overall subjective assessment. Summary of the Scanning Requirements 1. Assume first generation 35mm OCN film, exposed via a high quality production camera using prime taking lens, and design for this challenging but practical case (leading to a true 4K scanning resolution design decision). 2. Minimize scanner lens MTF loss with small-aperture low-aberration optics with large depth of field. 3. Employ a 3 sensor RGB approach with close-to-100% fill factor pixel layout for best separation ratio between wanted signal recovery and aliases Scanity and Scanity HDR A Realization of these Design Principles Based on the requirements derived in this paper, Scanity and Scanity HDR use a native RGB; prism based three-sensor front end. This design of 3 * 4K CCD TDI sensors facilitates a better correlation to the actual native resolution of the film itself and limits the appearance of unwanted aliases effects. Unlike using a frontend, which is based on a 1 * 4K, sensor with Bayer CFA that subsamples colour information and merely adds extra visible aliasing artefacts to the resultant data image. Making Bayer CFA scanner sensor front-end technology unsuitable for cloning accurately films for historical preservation and downstream restoration. References: 1. From 2. Adapted from Figure 3 in a report by Vittorio Baroncini, Hank Mahler, Matthieu Sintas and Thierry Delpit (available at ) Scanity film transport system Conclusion To support continuing future improvements in preservation and restoration of archived film-based content, it is recommended that the maximum useful image information contained in 35mm film material should be captured at the scanning stage. This paper analyzed the extent of that information with reference to both image recovery and avoidance of visible aliasing in order to find the limit of the necessary scanning resolution in practical applications. A limit of 4K resolution in the scanning device was found to be appropriate only if a true 4K front end with one sensor per colour channel is used. Scanity and Scanity HDR use such sensors (>4K RGB+IR TDI Sensors) that liberate not only excellent true 4K (4096x3112 RGB) scans but provide simultaneously high dynamic range and at high speeds
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