Re: DIY Tape-to-Film transfer?

From: Scott R (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Mar 09 2010 - 15:52:42 PST


thanks a lot for the advice, edwin!

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Steve Polta <email suppressed> wrote:
> Isn't it tragic when google lets us down?
> Why not just do it and find out?
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> Be a pioneer!
> Live dangerously man!!
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> --- On Tue, 3/9/10, Scott R <email suppressed> wrote:
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>> From: Scott R <email suppressed>
>> Subject: DIY Tape-to-Film transfer?
>> To: email suppressed
>> Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 12:58 PM
>> Hello,
>> I've been wondering if it would be possible to do a rough
>> DIY
>> tape-to-film transfer, perhaps using a Bolex and a bright
>> video
>> projector. I have a home-made telecine box that works well
>> for 8mm
>> telecine, and was thinking of using that in reverse...
>> probably by
>> laboriously filming the video frame by frame. I'm not
>> hoping to end up
>> with a professional quality transfer or anything, I'm just
>> interested
>> in playing with the way video changes once transferred to
>> film (e.g.
>> Anthony Dod Mantle's video work). I'd expect it to come out
>> pretty
>> rough, but I'm mostly curious whether I'd need to
>> constantly be
>> changing the exposure on the Bolex, or whether I could keep
>> it
>> constant as long as the video source had relatively
>> consistent
>> contrast and brightness.
>>
>> I couldn't find anything about this on Google. Has anyone
>> ever heard
>> of someone trying this? Thanks for any help or links.
>> Scott
>>
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