Originally Posted by Bruce Meyers

I know lots of people say it's hard to quantify the resolution of 35mm film given that it's composed of grains and not pixels but surely there is a resolution that gets printed when film is scanned digitally, when animation is done, when compositing is done, there surely must be a resolution frame size on the computer, so what it is? How many pixels is comparable to that? How many pixels are they working with on effects shots? How long before digital closes that gap? we HD people deal with 1920 x 1080, so what's 35mm film like?