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Topic: What is it with Standard 8mm?
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted September 08, 2007 12:04 AM
Thats the funny thing Steve. Especially if you are talking about Blackhawk's, the image quality of the Blackhawk standard 8mm films tended to be slightly better, as a rule, than the Super 8 of the same title from Blackhawk, (this holds true until you get to the late prints done by Blackhawk, which were really good Super 8 prints.
I have found Blackhawks super 8 prints rather hit or miss, but somewhere along the line, I understand that Blackhawk switched film labs that they used and the quality took a down turn.
Now, not all standard 8mm prints were great. Most other companies that manufactured standard 8mm didn't seem to put the same care into it.
Disney was another one of the good exceptions. I have some standard 8mm color prints that are still stunning after all these years.
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Joe Caruso
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Posts: 4105
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted September 08, 2007 04:21 PM
As a long-term Blackhawk collector, those early Std 8 Silent and Sound prints were (and in many cases, still are), excellent because 8mm started in 1932 and where else would choice pre-print come from, but existing 16mm originals or at least top-dupes - By the time Super 8 came by introduction in '65, labs changed, prints were pretty much consistent with the occasional bad one coming now and then - Still Blackhawk held its own, far outshining the other distributors, especially in the bright and practically new Std 8 prints which I find better than most - So, if a Std 8 Blackhawk appears, try for it - They still sparkle - Shorty
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