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[Thomas Worth]

I don't think you need EXR for images made in a Digital Cinema Camera, for computer graphics maybe they are useful in special ways, but for what noise and banding you can see, a gamma 2.2 48bpp TIFF file shoud be able to hold what a camera can photograph and your eyes can see after that is graded down to the range the monitor/projector can show.

Yeah you're probably right -- I was thinking more when true HDR cameras become available. You'll need somewhere to store all that data, just the way you do now with HDR stills.

Simply exclaiming that "TRANSCODES ARE SO OLD SCHOOL!!!" is to ignore the reality of many established mission-critical workflows, and further perpetuates the stereotype of many RED proponents as quasi-religious fanatics. Please cease and desist

Well, in a world where the only camera that exists is a RED, that would probably be okay. But the fact is that post facilities deal with many different formats, and oftentimes within the same project. In cases such as this, it might be better to have everything in the same format.