I always knew video was "expensive", but my mark for what expensive meant was a good few orders of magnitude off when I researched the topic for a personal proj

I always knew video was "expensive", but my mark for what expensive meant was a good few orders of magnitude off when I researched the topic for a personal project. I can easily imagine the author being in a similar boat, knowing that it isn't cheap, but then not realizing that expensive in this context truly does mean expensive until they actually started seeing the associated costs.