For sure. Film technology itself has improved over the years. Flattening the silver bromide crystals was a stroke of genius.Will2 wrote:I've seen a few Super 8 negative scans, especially from the new 50D that really seemed closer to 16mm than Super 8; but rarely does Super 8 reversal look this good. I'm sure it has much to do with the colorist but with reversal film the scan itself seems like it would be very tricky and this scanner handled it great.
Unfortunately that means I have a ton of footage that will need to be rescanned. But at least I can do it; glad I didn't shoot this stuff on VHS or 8mm video.
Re.video - yes I've got tapes in my archive that have turned to noise. Fortunately a number of them were digitised before that happened. I've been recently re-mastering/restoring one of them (shot on S-VHS) and I've had to rely on the early digital copies in many cases, because various sections of the the original tapes have degenerated into glitches and noise.
All the video (SVHS and Video8) I shot for a particular theatre group, in the 90s, has been undergoing digitisation as part of a library initiative. Hours and hours of the stuff. They have been coming out reasonably good. The library obviously looked after the original tapes (which I donated years ago) better than I have been doing in my own archive.
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