[matheusmoreira]

The dedication of fans never ceases to amaze.

> When a film is professionally scanned in 16-bit color as DPX image files, every single frame weighs in at 100 MB.

> With upwards of 175,000 frames in each film, a complete scan requires about 21 TB of storage

> 42 TB if you want a backup copy!

> And then you need at least another 21 TB of space to work on it

> over $1,000 just in hard drives is therefore required for every film

[Melatonic]

You probably are not gonna to need 16 bit DPX for anything but high end compositing with CG

Your point still stands but a good quality cineform or something is plenty. And you can definitely get 21TB cheaper than 1000$

[SoftTalker]

A tiny expense in the grand scheme of things. The original film stock probably cost an order of magnitude more.