8mm Forum: Blu ray on 16 mm

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Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on September 28, 2014, 04:41 PM:

I saw (at "Les cinglés du cinéma" in Argenteuil/Paris) trailers in 16 mm that had a blu ray source. The man who projected the reel said he had them made specially for him. The quality was perfect. I couldn't get many informations about the lab that did the job as obviousely the owner of the film didn't want to say more about it. All I could know was the country (I will not mention here, nor will I mention the titles that were shown) and the price (24 euros a minute) as I asked the happy man if he had thought of sell copies. the answer was that at this cost, it would not be viable, it is only for the pleasure (just imagine : you get a copy unique in the world !).

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on September 28, 2014, 04:44 PM:

You can also have a single 35mm print made with this system...

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on September 28, 2014, 05:15 PM:

I know but I think that few members of the forum use 35 mm which is more a professionnal gauge. I asked if the lab also made Super 8 copies but I was answered no.

Posted by Doug Thompson (Member # 3381) on October 04, 2014, 01:24 PM:

I suspect that this is how the projectionist acquired his footage.

Edit:
Now that I have clicked on the youtube link, it says that the video is unavailable, which is unfortunate. It showed the entire process from manipulating the video to projecting the processed replacement film which was spliced into the damaged print.

There's a seller on ebay who sells 16mm reductions of 35mm snipes which are produced on polyester base film using the standard negative process. But they had this snipe made up in both flat and scope by Marco in Italy. By the way, the youtube of this used to be full frame. I guess it was changed to prevent downloading and reuse.

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on October 04, 2014, 04:04 PM:

Interesting link, sad indeed that the video has been removed from YouTube but from other members' comments the results are also good when the source is a dvd (what I saw at Argenteuil was from a blu ray source). It would be nice to have that also in other gauges than 16 mm.

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