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Topic: Derann's 'new 'stripe
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Chip Gelmini
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1733
From: Brooksville, FL
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted November 11, 2007 12:11 PM
This week I have received a print from Steve Osborne of Derann's Pinocchio. This is a cracking print with the laminate grey stripe. Reel 4 there is a glitch. Upon close examination on the rewind bench, there is a very obvious error when the stripe was applied. The track is more like a drip and it actually smears onto the frame picture area at this location.
It appears this new stripe must be a liquid that is carefully applied to the film and dries quickly. This could have been where the applicator became jammed, then when it released, more than the correct amount came out. In theory, this could have been right before the bottle of supply needed to be changed.
For me, I shall probably play the print through the projector speaker and see how bad the problem is for the droput. Before that, I might even do what I suspect will be done: Hand crank to this location and simply remove the two or three frames in question. Since I live in the USA and it took almost 8 months to get the print once the order was confirmed, I'd rather fix it like this and keep what I have rather than deal with time consuming exchanges.
While I am slightly dissapointed with this particular problem, I am still very happy with the purchase anyhow. I have other grey stripe prints that run quite well, so for every few that run well you should expect one out of the crowd to have a slight error.
Chip
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Chip Gelmini
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1733
From: Brooksville, FL
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted November 12, 2007 10:57 AM
Per my earlier post....
Last night I checked my print of Pinocchio. Taking the advice from another post, I pulled out my motorized sound Goko editor and used it's own speaker to check for issues.
What I was expecting was one of the worst droputs in super 8 sound history. You want to know what it was?
NOTHING. Not one little glitch in audio playback. I was completely overjoyed. Now it's just a sloppy picture glitch spread over 4 frames. Now I believe I can live with that. Couldn't really tell though, because the viewer, one of those Ebay bargains, only plays sound. There is an electrical problem so there's no lamp light.
Pinocchio arrived Thursday, haven't had time to really run it down yet. But wow, what a relief this has turned out to be. Of course the true test still has to be done...running it through Pro Logic on the big screen! But I'm not as worried now as I was before.
[ November 12, 2007, 12:48 PM: Message edited by: Chip Gelmini ]
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted November 15, 2007 06:53 PM
I find this a curious subject. This new stripe is greyish, eh? I wonder if the new stripe is "chromium dioxcide" or basically a chrome tape, instead of regular magnetic.
If Chrome or "metal", then that means it will give much sharper recordings than the regular magnetic. When i used to record on cassette tape, I became quite a artist at it, and found that I could get as near to CD oustanding quality from a chrome tape, with the full Dolby B and C noise reduction, so that it had incredible high's and lows with little or NO noise on the recordings.
Actually, I would love to get ahold of one of these grey stripe films, as I would love to experiment with the recording of it.
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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