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Julian Baquero
Expert Film Handler

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From: Bogota, Colombia
Registered: Mar 2011

posted June 19, 2011 10:50 PM

I am very curious, can someone explain how are super 8 copies created from a 35mm or 70mm film print. What kind of machines and techniques are used?

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Dino Everette
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Long Beach, CA USA
Registered: Dec 2008

posted June 19, 2011 11:08 PM

In simple terms it is almost like projecting the film only instead of making the picture big, you make it small so it will fit on a smaller gauge of film.. The machine would be called an Optical printer...

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Julian Baquero
Expert Film Handler

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From: Bogota, Colombia
Registered: Mar 2011

posted June 20, 2011 12:53 PM

Thx Dino for the answer.

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Larry Arpin
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Sunland, CA, USA
Registered: Dec 2006

posted June 21, 2011 01:55 AM

Here is an example of an optical printer. See figure 3:

http://www.computer-history.info/Page4.dir/pages/Early.Graphics.dir/index.html

It looks like it is in blow up mood.

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Martin Jones
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Thetford , Norfolk,England
Registered: May 2008

posted June 21, 2011 02:49 AM

Doug Palmer has a home made version... scroll down to find it

http://www.filmcamblog.blogspot.com/

Lots of other interesting stuff on this page as well
Martin

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