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Topic: South Africa 1971 - 1975 - Zulu - Family in SA - Middleburg Tvl - Wolverine PRO scan
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Jake Mayes
Expert Film Handler
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From: Bath, UK
Registered: Sep 2012
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posted January 27, 2019 08:23 AM
For years I have carefully stored my grandad's cine film of our family, some of the footage is historical such as them meeting the Queen and her visit to Qatar. Not scanned those yet. I have screened these many times over the years. They had a few lines when they first fell into my possession and despite many viewings over the years still look good, kept the projectors clean <3
I have never been able to afford a pro scan, and he has many reels to do, but I have made use of the wolverine PRO to do a reasonably good scan of them for backup purposes.
The video here is my family in South Africa / Middleburd Tvl in the 1970s and the Zulu tribe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vMWVPdwkxg&feature=youtu.be
It has been nice to scan them. I am waiting to scan the others until I can get some filmguard.
The wolverine is no professional equipment, but it is what I can afford and it is actually reasonably good for what it is. Any tips to further increase the quality of that one would be great! To anyone using it, make sure you clean the gate and film path with every film you run through, and always test with a junker first.
Of all of this reels, All the kodachrome has held its colour, the ektachrome has held nearly all of its colour, the agfachrome has faded to blue and is starting to go transparent (there is only a small amount of that), so will be converted to B&W.
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Jake Mayes
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posted January 27, 2019 08:56 AM
I think it was agfachrome 40.
All the K40 and E160 look very good, with the K40 showing no signs of fading and minor signs on the ektachrome, but none of the Agfa stuff held up. In fact, you can see even the blue in the base becoming transparent slowly, still a deep blue but no black. I can convert these to B/W, though.
To be fair, these films were over the course of their lives moved to ten different countries. Stored in humidity extremes, left on a runway in 45C heat in the middle east for nearly a day and all their records warped that day, left in a damp house until I took them and stored them in freezer bags with silica gel in my house which is constantly kept at 22C. My grandparents are still alive and felt they were best left with me.
So i think storage conditions did play a role in them fading. Only a few of his films were agfachrome, though. I did however see agfachrome slides from the 1970s? that looked almost new.
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Jake Mayes
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posted January 27, 2019 10:45 AM
Well, compared to the originals on a projector (w. or without filmguard as i sampled filmguard only once on one of them a while back with a friends bottle of the stuff, but he no longer has it), there is no contest that the originals look better on a good projector, but i will say that that scan is very good, and at TV viewing distance more than adequate and plenty of detail is rendered, and it does not detract from the soul of the video, despite the compression artefacts. If i could afford a pro 2K scan, I would have done that in a heartbeat, though. Until then, I will keep the originals safely stored.
We are going to have a family do sometime in may and im going to bring the original reels + projector to go through them all and give copies of the footage away. I want to wait before giving the scans away as I don't want to detract from the day gathered round the projector, the social aspect, though this one shared as a sample bought my uncles and aunt to tears xD my mother is no longer with us and one of my uncles has amnesia from his childhood due to a motorcycle accident, so they are very valuable.
The wolverine PRO is very good for the money in fact. It doesn't like splices but seems to be very gentle on the film for the most part and after some experimentation it lies perfectly flat in the gate. They could improve it by giving you to the option to turn off all compression and improving the sensor a bit, but other than that they seem to have ironed out many of the problems the early units had.
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