While not mentioned in the article, this piece was shot with the Mini35/PD-150 combo.

Quoted from variety.com:

http://www.variety.com/story.asp?l=review&r=VE1117922892&c=31

posted Wed., Jan. 21, 2004. Article by Robert Koehler

>> Michael McDonough's digital lensing is surpassingly beautiful and
>> should
>> finally silence skeptics of the cinematic capacity (or limits) of
>> digital video. McDonough also shot Granik's short, "Snake Feed," from
>> which "Down to the Bone's" story is derived. Lenser achieves
>> crystalline
>> resolution on the bigscreen with fairly modest means, abetted by a
>> high-def transfer.

So do we assume that "high-def transfer" is a misnomer?

I would presume that statement to mean that a high-def up-res and color correct was done before the blowup to film. I have not spoken to the filmmakers directly yet though.