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Those are some great videos! The B&W at LeMans with all the bicyclists on the track is nuts. Thanks for sharing them.
I have done a little film editing (wish I could do more) and it is VERY time consuming. That 2+ minutes probable took over 40 hours of editing time. I once did a 13 minute how-to for my other job, with shooting, editing sound and music it took me a month
I was once the Producer, Director, Editor, Music Conductor, and Supreme High Nurgle for creating 12 hours of converted color 8mm home movies of jalopy racing to VHS. I was able to bark out instructions to the guy who was pressing all the ****ons for about 8 hours a day, and getting about 12 minutes of quality tape each day. 3 times a week. 18 months. Looking back, WOW!! what an experience. It take discipline and patience.
Hello, We were fortunate that our dad bought a 16mm color movie camera as his way to express his photographic abilities in taking family movies and films for the neighboring community friends. It was a point and shoot style of camera small in size, but being 16mm, had the color and clarity to make it stand out well. Many times we wished that it had a telephoto zoom lens as the places for the non professional movie maker or photographer was quite a ways away from the actual action. Those professional guys were so close to the action. Sometimes, it was better to go to the other side of the dragstrip on the tower side at Lion’s Dragstrip for better shots. Shorter, but being closer makes it look real. Because I stood next to my friend Mr. Childers, the ambulance driver, it was like a professional courtesy and I got very close to the action. He was contracted from the local Long Beach mortuary, Dilday Mortuary Services. In between the races, I was able to get to know him well. He was impressed when I told him that the two young teenagers from the Dilday Mortuary Family were students at our local high school cl***. size does matter for clarity... When showing on a large screen or projection surface. The quality of the size does matter in photography. At least with images being made from the various size film. If we all had 35mm movie film cameras, they would make the Hollywood film cameras an ordinary household item. But, since they use rolling carts and cranes, what would we consumers use if we had those huge 35mm film cameras for movies? A back ache for sure… How would that look at a kid’s birthday party with everyone holding a huge 35 mm film cameras shooting those cl***ic moments? The larger format film cameras for general photography allowed us to see the quality of the size that presented itself. Those 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 cameras and film made images so much clearer for viewing and printing. But for most, accessibility and convenience was bigger in demand than those larger film formats for the general public. Today, that is why we have high mega pixel digital cameras for quality (composition) movies for our TV screens and laptops, as well as being able to take high definition still photos for our own history and s****book prints. When the era of tape recordings of music came to all of us, we found out that those LP albums were not recorded on tiny c***ette tapes, but on huge tapes, whose machines almost took over a room. Then they were converted to LP albums and 45 rpm records. Those tapes were then stored for longevity. But, we got to play with the end result that fit our needs. As the consumer market developed, again, the sizes went from the large tape to 8 track size to c***ette size and with the development of technology, the sound was able to get better, not so in films. When I was talking to some camera guys using the latest $40,000 video recording cameras, they allowed me to hold one. I almost dropped it as it was the size of a normal size Albacore. (Shoulder Harness, Braces, etc.) The tape being used was the size of the 35mm film and then from there, the copies for the general public at the VHS size were made. But, technology allowed the VHS industry rule until the quality was able to get smaller and then finally go digital. Jnaki Thank goodness for 16mm film cameras back then and for today’s digital efforts, kudos for making life a little easier. Now, to get those old films changed over to the new digital techniques would be fabulous. We would be living in the old days, looking like they were taken yesterday by an old grandmother with her new digital camera and/or phone for quality. It is another great way to preserve our history and create new jobs for the future enterprises.
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