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Since the telecine efforts create many hundreds of JPG images, it struck me that it wouldn't be too hard to set up some kind of colouring action in Photoshop, then batch process all the images to make a colour film from B&W. A couple of hours later I'm older and wiser, but yes, it is possible, even with my limited skills.
This is a short clip shot with c 1923 Pathe Baby camera with the Camo motorised drive c 1926. It was a bad choice of film as the long expired Ferrania negative stock is quite grainy and it's quite jumpy due to my suboptimal telecine methods, but it's still a promising start I think, and it's a bit of fun while we wait for new colour 9.5mm stock to come along...
There are 60 frames here, photographed with DIY telecine, then 3 colour layers made for each frame created in Batch Processing in Photoshop. I then used the Chroma Key feature in PowerDirector 10 to select the different areas.
First an example of the frames, starting with the original:
And the final result:
This is a short clip shot with c 1923 Pathe Baby camera with the Camo motorised drive c 1926. It was a bad choice of film as the long expired Ferrania negative stock is quite grainy and it's quite jumpy due to my suboptimal telecine methods, but it's still a promising start I think, and it's a bit of fun while we wait for new colour 9.5mm stock to come along...
There are 60 frames here, photographed with DIY telecine, then 3 colour layers made for each frame created in Batch Processing in Photoshop. I then used the Chroma Key feature in PowerDirector 10 to select the different areas.
First an example of the frames, starting with the original:
And the final result:
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