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Topic: BLOWN Away!!
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Martin Jones
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1269
From: Thetford , Norfolk,England
Registered: May 2008
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posted December 16, 2014 03:40 PM
Today I transferred a couple of 50ft reels of Standard 8 taken in about 1984. I hadn't seen them since then and dug them out from the back of a cupboard. The first was Kodachrome; as expected it sparkled with the usual sharp images and vibrant colour. Then I turned to the other.... and saw the word "AGFA" on the box. My heart sank: I had transferred 1600ft of Agfa Moviechrome Super 8 earlier in the month and suffered splodge, colour shift ad faded colour on reel after reel. And I knew that the content of this reel was of a very dear family friend, long since dead, who was so important to us in the early years of our marriage... so I knew my wife would be so disappointed. WOW!!!!!! I could not believe my eyes: the only reel of Standard 8 AGFA film I had EVER exposed was every bit as sharp and vibrant as we have come to expect from Kodachrome, and our old friend was up there on the screen as if it were only yesterday instead of 50 years. If only AGFA had continued to use the same formulation when they went into Super 8 production... if only! The transfer of that film was the culmination of the enormous task of transferring to computer 30 years of Standard and Super 8 filming to the point when we started to use VHS, then Video 8, Hi8, MiniDV, and now HD. Less than half the film has been through editing and other post processing...... and I haven't even started on the Video! So the nightmare goes on, but today's transfer of that one AGFA reel was a real light in the darkness. Onwards and upwards!
-------------------- Retired TV Service Engineer Ongoing interest in Telecine....
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