Anon03/05/26, 20:01No.4499724
Today I'm doing the math on the total cost of digital capture vs 6mm Ektachrome, assuming both will be edited in DR. Yes the film is an upfront cost, but the cost of the cameras and subsequent lens options + downstream costs storage, subscriptions of a new modern digital camera is high compared to nonexistent in film gear.The ektachrome image has more than sufficient picture quality & can be rescanned in the future as digital tech improves, whereas in 2 decades, 2 decade old digital images always seem annoyingly poor. In fact there's a quantifiable cost in time and expense to color grade each scene to look as good as the last century of work chemists did to get Ekta to look that good, the cost of which is built into the film.Time to go get some numbers.