Re: P2 Media Cards vs FIRESTORE 3 hour Value price test.

Of course it was very rough estimate and there are many factors that affects the actual cost per roll. Still it doesn't take an hour to transfer one roll. Several rolls of film will fit on a $100 HDCAM tape. For dailies one-light will do fine. Supervised transfer is expensive because grading is involved - I pay the guy not the machine. I still have to pay for grading at some point no matter what is the acquisition format. If you double my figure I'm sure you won't have to shop around for a good deal.

The cost of deck is totally irrelevant. If you offer editing as a service you need some sort of deck to lay down the master. If you are a client I don't think any facility would give you an additional discount because you brought P2 not tapes. You already cut a lot of hours of digitizing so don't expect more favors.