I always hear people/actors/directors say, this tape or film is x meters long, it is this size, etc. do they really still use physical film? If so why aren’t they using terabytes of storage in a way more compact form?

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    8 months ago

    What is quality to you? The image size/resolution, the audio sample rate, the noise?

    There’s a point where the difference is imperceptible.

    I think it’s largely nostalgia behind replies like yours, analogue and digital are different, not a blanket better or worse.

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            8 months ago

            You are correct.

            The figure I was given at art college was that a well exposed and developed 35mm negative had a minimum resolution of 90 million pixels, which is higher than 8K at ~75 million.

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                  8 months ago

                  Is it just me, or does that not contradict the statement you said of “film doesn’t have infinite resolution”?

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                    8 months ago

                    What? Not at all.

                    I’m saying we can already scan stuff at way beyond the resolution film is able to record, how is that mutually exclusive with there only being useful detail in the film up to a certain scale?

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          8 months ago

          Well you’re definitely right about remastering/digitising old film…

          But if Star Wars was done on old DV, Lucas wouldn’t have been able to digitally butcher it, so there’s that.

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          8 months ago

          Ergo, analogue for now still beats digital at the highest ends of the market. There’s no digital camera outperforming the analogue ones. I want some of them upvotes back!! 😤

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      8 months ago

      Sure… Nostalgia is what drives the movie studios… That’s why they still use analogue despite the superior results of digital, at lower total costs… 🤡!