Why are you talking about “going in cold”? Who said anything about going in cold with no information? It is you who’s misunderstanding.
I don’t know why you decided to challenge my story, my experience, and every single point here to death. My first reply to you was mostly agreeing with your original take on Gaussians as I prefer them too, based on how good they are at getting rid of aliasing. But I wanted to give that a little industry color and history that isn’t visible to outsiders. Gaussians are visibly softer than other filters, the antialiasing properties come at the expense of sharpness, the softness is visible on film, and while the majority of the time any given random person might be best off with a Gaussian if they haven’t studied pixel filters, professionals sometimes prefer slightly sharper filters even if they might trade it for slight amounts of ringing or aliasing.
challenge my story, my experience, and every single point here to death.
If you say things that aren't consistent or don't make sense someone may say that it doesn't make sense.
People can prefer whatever they want, it doesn't mean a half pixel blur is going to be visible on 35mm film where edges are multiple pixel gradients.
Again, show me some evidence. I see people make claims about the resolution of 35mm film all the time, but when it comes time to show edges anywhere close to a render it never happens.
Yes, at PDI, like I said.
Why are you talking about “going in cold”? Who said anything about going in cold with no information? It is you who’s misunderstanding.
I don’t know why you decided to challenge my story, my experience, and every single point here to death. My first reply to you was mostly agreeing with your original take on Gaussians as I prefer them too, based on how good they are at getting rid of aliasing. But I wanted to give that a little industry color and history that isn’t visible to outsiders. Gaussians are visibly softer than other filters, the antialiasing properties come at the expense of sharpness, the softness is visible on film, and while the majority of the time any given random person might be best off with a Gaussian if they haven’t studied pixel filters, professionals sometimes prefer slightly sharper filters even if they might trade it for slight amounts of ringing or aliasing.