An unsigned reader writes "Peter Jackson has announced via his Facebook page that The Hobbit is being shot at 48 frames per second, ameliorating the '3D headaches' that many viewers have complained of in the last few boom-years for the format. Film has been shot and diagram at 24fps since the 1920s, with the protest of Douglas Trumbull's 60fps 'ShowScan' format, used for the worldwide




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catholicity Back To The Future ride, amongst others. Jackson himself predicts that the far-ranging espousal of 48fps workflow could not only improve the 3D but also the general faithful experience, though it may earn itself some backward-looking critics. But until digital capital photography flat usurps celluloid, this may be good news for Kodak, who now have even more reason to lament the death of Stanley Kubrick."

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