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Topic: Standard 8 v Super 8 image quality.
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted October 03, 2015 12:43 PM
Quite true Dominique ...
I'm still holdinh onto most of my earlier Blackhawk Laurel and hardy and Chaplin shorts, (like "Big Business") in that the standard 8mm versions were incredibly sharp, quite amazingly so, while the super 8 shorts left a little to be desired.
Super 8, of course, improved to the "Derann" level. Also, the optical sound super 8 features had the same story. Most of the earlier releases (67 to about 75), had quite variable quality, but as a general rule, the super 8 optical prints improved to the point that you'd swear you were watching a good 16MM print!
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Paul Adsett
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Posts: 5003
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted October 03, 2015 01:15 PM
As I said in a previous post, Super 8mm cameras designed to use double super 8 roll film in metal camera gates, combined with superb Bolex Kern lenses, would have resulted in awesome quality images with Kodachrome film. In tems of projecting prints, I think by and large, super 8 prints on super 8 projectors are a huge improvement over standard 8.
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