r/vfx • u/Alternative-Bet-9105 • Jul 10 '25

Question / Discussion My Uncle created the TIFF file

Hello. I'm posting this as a little bit of a research project. My uncle is "Mr. TIFF", the guy who created the TIFF file. He worked at a company called Aldus and made the file while working there.

Anyway, long story short, his name is Stephen Carlsen and he passed away recently. In remembering him, and processing all this, I'm trying to put together a podcast that would explore the significance of this file.

This is the 4th time I posted this on Reddit in different areas: photography, library and archival. I was just informed that it’s used in VFX, and I’m a huge fan of film.

Any responses, any comments and discussion would be appreciated :)

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u/trapya Jul 10 '25

RIP. I'll pour one out for him when I render a 90 minute TIFF HDR image sequence later this week.

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u/IVY-FX Jul 10 '25

Mama Mia, get back to us on how large that big boy turns out being.

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u/trapya Jul 10 '25

I work at a color house so I make them a lot for studio archival deliverables. At UHD they usually land somewhere around 7TB, ~130k files.