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?

  • @bestusername@aussie.zone
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    82 years 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.

          • Pons_Aelius
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            52 years 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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          12 years 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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          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!! 😤

    • crandlecan
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      22 years 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… 🤡!