MovieStuff wrote:
That is 9.5mm film. We will soon be releasing some 9.5mm Sniper Specials for frame by frame telecine of this material. We will also be offering it as a service in the near future.
Roger
That's great! I'm sure there is a lot of archival/family material out there that could use a Sniper transfer.
But what about new footage? Who's shooting this stuff? Does it have the same kind of following that Regular 8 has, or is it even more exotic? Film stock availability? What about cameras? I'm intrigued that you can get 16mm to 9.5 conversions. Maybe that is a direction for the A-Cam to move to (instead of DS8). LOL!
I've been intrigued by 9.5's near-16mm quality since I first read about it in Lipton.
I don't think I'd waste my time converting a 16mm camera to 9.5. Yes you can get stocks from a few companies who slit 35mm but really, 16mm gives you more possiblilities for the price. If you found an old 9.5mm camera that was in great shape, I'd say jump on it though.
9.5mm is indeed an interesting format which was introduced to the market in 1922, a year before 16mm came out and ten years before Regular 8mm came out. I have a few 9.5mm films in my collection and they all appear to be in good shape. Only one has slight Vinegar warping. I have a Pathe 200B projector that just needs a power supply to run. if anyone has an extra adapter, let me know.
When I give tours of my film archive, people always get blown away when they see 9.5mm for the first time.
super8er wrote:if it is possible cut three strips of this stuff out of 35mm than that means a company similar to pro 8(who cuts 35mm into three strips of super8 ) could produce it for the same price as super 8, and it would have much better image quality than s8!!that would be pretty cool 8)
Just click the "Cine" link at the top and you can navigate to the 9.5mm camera and projector section (among other formats).
It's mostly a dutch language site, but the site owner has a nice collection with lots of excellent images. There are also some good 9.5 links, as well.
imaxfan wrote:. It´s totally impossible to cut 3 rows of 9.5mm film from an ordinary perforated 35mm film.
I used to think that such claims were nonsense too when Pro 8 boasted of getting 4 strips of S 8 from 35mm film. But then it occurred to me that they split it from film that is not perforated-go figure! And I would imagine that it is cheaper to buy unperforated 35mm film stock from kodak than perforated stock. I would not be surprised if the costs of perforating, with the equipment costs, man hours to operate it and wear and tear, was higher than the cost coating the film and then splitting it into 35mm strips without perforating it. So, I am guessing that what WIKI got wrong was the existence of and cutting off of the sprocket holes.
Ahh this thread is making me want to dig out my pathe camera and actually shoot some!!
makes me want to go to England. This was on their site. So they're not that out-of-it. Definitely a 9.5:
Osama Bin Laden sends George W. Bush a coded message to let him know he is still alive:-
"370H SSV 0773H." Bush is baffled. Condi Rice and her aides and even the FBI and CIA
can't decipher it. So they ask Britain's MI6 for help. Within a minute MI6 replies:-
"Er, tell the President he's holding the message upside down.".
for those of you interested in, 9.5mm format is quite common here in France, and I'm equipped with a telecine to transfer it.
the telecine is an old Elmo TRV16, which was completely rebuilt to cope with the format by a local engineer, and then equipped wtih modern (well, not so modern at the time) CCD camera. Delivers full PAL resolution (576 lines) with sometimes astounding results. Quality is sometimes as good as 16mm can be, from my point of view.
will definitely post 9.5mm samples on Youtube soon to show you.
