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Film vs Digital - carbon footprints compared?


Dominic Case

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One day, long ago, all the film and camera companies got together and decided that they were going to fit their products for such and such dimensions.

 

That's not quite how it happened. The origin of film standards was less chaotic than with digital, but there were other attempted formats such as 17.5 mm and some in the 20's of mm, 55 mm, etc. that came and went.

 

In the early days, it was big established companies with loads of cash and experience in other businesses that were the major players, Edison and Eastman. The only smart thing to do was follow their lead. (They also had most of the patents, and through the Patents Company, tried to pretty much control everything.) Add Bell & Howell to that a little later, they modified the shape of the perforation to make it more robust and easier to make registration pins.

 

It took a couple decades for things to settle down, at which point the engineers got together, IIRC about 1916, and formed a standards body, the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (to which Television would later be added). For anti-trust and collusion legal reasons, laws originating in the Teddy Roosevelt days, companies can't get together on anything. It has to happen very arm's length through the neutral, open, due process SMPTE procedures.

 

 

 

 

-- J.S.

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Only asceticism leads to salvation :rolleyes: - Oh well, almost every religious movement is trying to sell that to us since decades.

 

If someone believes in such a thing as "man made global warming", yeah why not, go ahead and buy some CO2 certificates from Al Gore to purify your conscience - it´s your money and his swimming pool (he heats with your money) after all.

 

Those who don't understand history are doomed to repeat it (and pay for it).

 

Frank

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I think Frank that you have it wrong. Nuclear bomb or nuclear star power promises us infinite energy and it is a million of times more powerful than the bean fart power that the oil companies try to sell us on. And nuclear power is carbon free. We just can't continue to pour billions of tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and not expect catastrophic effects. Nuclear star power is the obscene technology of Dr. Strangelove pyromaniacs but the Sun itself is the definition of pyromania.

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