From: 40 Frames Directory (email suppressed)
Date: Sun May 15 2005 - 16:26:42 PDT
A few comments in repsonse to Fred Camper's recent post:
> The people who are using film now mostly use it because of
> its better resolution. As the resolution narrows, fewer and fewer will
> use it.
Resolution is one reason. But for many, commercially speaking, it's also
the exposure latitude (which HD is currently no where near), ability to
shoot highspeed (HD kinda does this) and variable speeds, color rendition
and accurate skin tone representation, and the archival or as they say
"future proof" nature of film when compared to the no-standard formats in
video, HD or whatever you want to call the 70 format culmination into
HiDef.
> Someone should try to raise money from
> experimental film lover George Lucas and Kodachrome lover Paul Simon for
> a "Foundation to Preserve Celluloid," or something like that, a not for
> profit with a few employees that would repair projectors and splicers
> and other equipment.
Projector repair is a desperate situation. There's but a few people left
who have this knowledge. A number of these people are plenty happy to move
on without passing it along for various reasons, some of them commerical.
A lot of money would have to be thrown in that direction to persuade some
of these people to teach this skill.
Let's pull Tim Plew from Eiki out of retirement with a wade of cash and
sit him down to teach an organization.
> It would
> be nice if someone would design and manufacture a non-scratching,
> non-self-threading, high quality 8mm and 16mm projectors and continue to
> make and maintain them; that's a job for a not for profit.
A repro of the Pageant would be nice, something as you say which is
manually loading. Slot loading mechanisms are convenient but complex and
need to aligned more than manual load projectors (eg, Pageant, RCA,
Graflex 900). Something that takes an ELC, and has a modular style
switchable lamp power supply to permit use of xenon and Gemini 300 lamps
(or whatever models are still being used by the medical industry). And no
on-board sound amp of anykind. Balanced Line out from the projector only.
The speaker out is a holdoever from the classroom/boardroom days and
should be removed altogether.
Alain
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