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?

      • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
        5·
        1 year 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.

          • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
            31·
            1 year ago

            We have electron microscopes. As long as you have time (which when you’re recording actors doing a scene, you don’t) we have the tech to look at things at any scale we want.

            We wouldn’t even need AI, just a way to illuminate the film and some optics to project it at whatever scale we need onto a sensor, and we could scan every frame on a film down to the molecular level if we wanted.

            Compositing the resulting scan data into digital video would be trivial, and the resulting file would have a level of quality higher than what any digital sensor could have recorded directly.

            • schmidtster@lemmy.world
              24·
              1 year ago

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

              • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
                21·
                1 year 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?

    • bestusername@aussie.zone
      1·
      1 year 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.

    • crandlecan@mander.xyz
      11·
      1 year 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!! 😤