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My paternal grandfather passed away in December and since I'm the only one in the family that goes for 8mm home movies, I got all his old home movies and old 35mm slides. I finally got around to watching them this week and I was surprised.
My grandfather would often shoot R8 and take slides of the same exact scenes. What really surprises me is the similarity between the Regular 8mm and the 35mm slides. The 35mm slides are more detailed and the color is more intense, of course, but the Regular 8mm home movies look very similar--the colors are virtually the same, and they're only *slightly* less intense than that of the slides.
I expected a greater gulf in color intensity, detail, contrast, etc. between the two formats.
Judging from the virtual lack of grain and Technicolor-like colors, I'm assuming my grandfather shot everything on Kodachrome.
Tom
Double 8mm Home Movies and 35mm Slides: Surprisingly Similar
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Tom
You are a lucky man! I wish my grandfather or father had a movie camera. Kodachrome memories are hard to beat! Kodachrome is
without equal in my book for not only its Technicolor like beauty, but
the archival qualities are unreal for a color stock. Interesting comparison
between the 8mm film and 35mm slides. 8)
David M. Leugers
You are a lucky man! I wish my grandfather or father had a movie camera. Kodachrome memories are hard to beat! Kodachrome is
without equal in my book for not only its Technicolor like beauty, but
the archival qualities are unreal for a color stock. Interesting comparison
between the 8mm film and 35mm slides. 8)
David M. Leugers
Well, thanks.
I'm upgrading to a WorkPrinter so I'm between telecine machines at the moment. Otherwise, I'd upload a few clips--there's a lot of Europe, particularly 1966 Denmark, Italy, and France.
Just one question: Aside from the obvious frame and sprocket hole size, does Double 8mm Kodachrome differ from Super 8mm Kodachrome? If you were to shoot the same scene using 40, one on R8, the other on S8, would there be a difference in color, saturation, contrast, etc.?
I've never noticed a difference, but, frankly, I've never bothered to really look.
Tom
I'm upgrading to a WorkPrinter so I'm between telecine machines at the moment. Otherwise, I'd upload a few clips--there's a lot of Europe, particularly 1966 Denmark, Italy, and France.
Just one question: Aside from the obvious frame and sprocket hole size, does Double 8mm Kodachrome differ from Super 8mm Kodachrome? If you were to shoot the same scene using 40, one on R8, the other on S8, would there be a difference in color, saturation, contrast, etc.?
I've never noticed a difference, but, frankly, I've never bothered to really look.
Tom
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Angus
Kodachrome memories
It is great when you get handed some old family films.
My maternal grandfather was a std 8mm nut in the last 5 years of his life and shot about 100 reels in that time. He died before I was born so I don't feature on them but my parents do, and my older cousins as babies...which is amusing!
The films were all passed to me in 1993 along with his beautiful Eumig P8, since I was the only person in the family then who had an interest in cine films. I also got his Quarz camera, which I returned to service 8 years later but that is another story.
What I had was over 5 hours of my family's history and memories from the the 1967-72 on Kodachrome II film, all perfectly preserved. Some were shown from time to time, particularly the films known to feature my cousins (I'm nasty, aren't I!) but for the most part they were under used.
In the middle of 2000 I decided to re-splice the reels he'd made up from multiple rolls, his cement splices had almost all disintegrated so I replaced them with new tape splices and gave all the films a good cleaning before viewing each and every one and trying to work out the correct chronological order.
Most were labelled and many dated but some reels had come out of their packets/cans and had no date. There were also some films that he'd obviously intended to edit or at least splice together but he didn't complete before he died. I attempted to complete this work too. Finally I transferred the whole lot to VHS video tape in time for Christmas, it was a labour of love really. I had a telecine chain set up in our living room for weeks, which didn't please my wife at all!
Anyway I passed the "mystery tapes" to my mother for Christmas without telling her what was on them. She was so surprised she actually started crying tears of joy. Later her brother came to visit and commented that the films, even on video, looked so fresh and vibrant as if they were shot yesterday.
There's no doubt that Kodachrome is a fantastic archival film. With a bit of a clean and some TLC my granddad's films look like they are brand new, of course projected they're even better than a VHS transfer but even the tape looks great.
The thing to remember is that here is over 5 hours of film, most of it very high quality, shot by a man who never had much money. All of his equipment was second hand bought on a shoestring and he never experimented with anything other than Kodachrome...but the results are a priceless and hopefully permanent record of what life was like in that era which looks perfect after 30+ years...try that with videotape!
My maternal grandfather was a std 8mm nut in the last 5 years of his life and shot about 100 reels in that time. He died before I was born so I don't feature on them but my parents do, and my older cousins as babies...which is amusing!
The films were all passed to me in 1993 along with his beautiful Eumig P8, since I was the only person in the family then who had an interest in cine films. I also got his Quarz camera, which I returned to service 8 years later but that is another story.
What I had was over 5 hours of my family's history and memories from the the 1967-72 on Kodachrome II film, all perfectly preserved. Some were shown from time to time, particularly the films known to feature my cousins (I'm nasty, aren't I!) but for the most part they were under used.
In the middle of 2000 I decided to re-splice the reels he'd made up from multiple rolls, his cement splices had almost all disintegrated so I replaced them with new tape splices and gave all the films a good cleaning before viewing each and every one and trying to work out the correct chronological order.
Most were labelled and many dated but some reels had come out of their packets/cans and had no date. There were also some films that he'd obviously intended to edit or at least splice together but he didn't complete before he died. I attempted to complete this work too. Finally I transferred the whole lot to VHS video tape in time for Christmas, it was a labour of love really. I had a telecine chain set up in our living room for weeks, which didn't please my wife at all!
Anyway I passed the "mystery tapes" to my mother for Christmas without telling her what was on them. She was so surprised she actually started crying tears of joy. Later her brother came to visit and commented that the films, even on video, looked so fresh and vibrant as if they were shot yesterday.
There's no doubt that Kodachrome is a fantastic archival film. With a bit of a clean and some TLC my granddad's films look like they are brand new, of course projected they're even better than a VHS transfer but even the tape looks great.
The thing to remember is that here is over 5 hours of film, most of it very high quality, shot by a man who never had much money. All of his equipment was second hand bought on a shoestring and he never experimented with anything other than Kodachrome...but the results are a priceless and hopefully permanent record of what life was like in that era which looks perfect after 30+ years...try that with videotape!