Bryce Lansing

I'm no expert, but I think that film resolution is as good as it's mm times 100 in lines. For instance, 8mm is only as good as 800 lines of resolution, 16mm is as good as 1600 lines (perfectly fine for 1080 HD scan), and 35mm is as good as 3500 lines (which is why it's usually scanned at 3k or 4k). I've seen well scanned 16mm that looked sharper than my HVX at 1080. There will come a day when 1080 HDTVs will be old and cheap, and we'll me looking at 5k TVs. There will be more cameras with 5k sensors, ad people will start asking the question "is 35mm good enough for 5K TVs?". But I will always love the grainy look of film over the sharp, through the window look of HD digital.