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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted January 13, 2009 12:29 PM
I was reading through that "Film Collectors World" magazine, from March 1979 (still available for purchase if anybody is interested, dropped to 12.50), and I noticed that a lot of the dealers selling super 8, were already selling video copies of thier indivisual releasses. It was interesting to look at the difference between the price of a VHS and the same feature on Super 8.
Even then, in march 1979, the writing was on the wall for Super 8. Though stalwart super 8 lovers would still buy film, (yep, even to this day, as we can all attest to), yet, for the average consumer, where buying something is always optioned on affordability, Super 8's days were already numbered.;
What's interesting though, is that, at that time, to own a VHS player/recorder, was quite expensive!
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Paul Adsett
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From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted January 14, 2009 08:26 AM
I totally agree. Every time I put on my 40 year old Kodachrome 8mm movies, which were shot on a Bolex C8 camera, the richness of color, the contrast, and the total look of the picture just blows me away. It makes you realize that in many ways digital home movies are really so inferior. Of course nobody wants to hear this and people are sold on everything digital and will give you an odd look if you tell them that you are still using film. But all my 8mm home movies are neatly edited, spliced, labeled and stored in bookcase reels, and are a joy to watch, whereas my miles and miles of digital stuff just lays around unedited, and most of it has only been watched one time. I am still using 35mm film for still photography for many reasons, not the least of which is making a small personal contribution to keeping film, and a great US company, Eastman Kodak, alive. But also because you are compelled to get color prints, which will last for decades. With digital you shoot hundreds of pictures, most of which are stored in computer files, never looked at, and never get printed out.
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Think about it: What's the best contrast ration of an good digital projector? 30,000:1 w/ a $5k projector and a gray screen? Well film is 300,000:1! It's organic alive and breathing just like analog audio! Sure there's drawbacks in film just like tape head noise or needle noise and occasional popcorn on a good record. But the trade of is SO WORTH IT in terms of living quality of the pictures and the sound. LONG LIVE ALL THINGS ANALOG! 
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when projected onto a large screen and at present on the look out for a two slide projector linked to a dissolve unit set up, been thinking about it for a while. 
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