still working on my b/w film footage - about to construct a new film-drying rack since i'm doing a bulk development with the Foma kit ~ two separate 8mm films and a Standard 8 [double 8]
all this footage will be home transferred after months and months of having no projector due to debris inside the lens, then having to buy a whole replacement projector just to get at a duplicate lens, after searching for months on the internet for a replacement which never showed up
yes, the b/w film will have a soundtrack - it's a synch with software - just convert your audio to wav and load it to the software 'time-line'. Alternatively someone in Britain still soundstripes film somewhere - intriguing possibility ;)
I practiced several times, with a "waste" Cartier Earrings film loading and open the movie before I installed real. After about three times you can not see it, and then do any of its problems in a changing bag....
my project was destroyed during splitting. the processed footage was accidentally re-processed leaving metre after after metre of clear acetate. am going to re-shoot it but probably in 16mm, which will minimalise chances of the footage going west again. Apologies but what occurred was literally 'out of my hands'.
Use it for new and really confused historians of the future. When they find your surviving 8mm film of a High Speed Train it will make their day as by then all the digital media will be dust!
New web site and this is cine page http://www.picsntech.co.uk/cine.html
wahiba wrote:Why use the old technology for old things.
Use it for new and really confused historians of the future. When they find your surviving 8mm film of a High Speed Train it will make their day as by then all the digital media will be dust!
Yes, digital media do not project forwards into the future because they change every 5 minutes and what was state-of-the-art technology yesterday is obsolete today, like vhs video tape technology.
Haven't checked the forum for a while, Ric, and only now came across your post telling us that your footage was all destroyed. Very sorry to hear this - especially given all the effort you put into this.
As for old technology being used to record new things: well, I do it all the time. The footage I took in Scotland back in 2009 features wide-angle recordings of trucks being loaded with blades for a wind-power station. And recently I filmed a friend of mine in slow-motion, as he walks out of the ICE train in Cologne, also on 8mm with my 1956 Bolex.
Firstly i have to apoligize to all of you that I was out of this forum for a longer period. To be honestly my footage was not succesful and I had other important activities to do, especially my long and boring Phd studies (no i'm still not at the end of it but very near).
I even forgot my filmshooting forum password... Finally i'm back and ready to film my 8mm black and white part again!
It seems to me this tiny 8mm filmmaking group is still alive!!!
"Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavÃÂa estaba allÃÂ."
("When he awoke, the dinosaur was still there.")
Standard 8 is on hold till i look at my projector. Does anyone know if it is safe to widen the film guide onto the pull-down please, I am worried the guides might be pinching the sides of the Standard 8 film now and then?
