In message , Paul
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
The recent thread (in the W7 'group only) about converting VHS (to
DVD was in the title of that thread, but to disc file equally) made
me wonder:
What experience have people had with converting old cine film? (Or
new for that matter! But I can't imagine many people are still
shooting it.)
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You can find a thread on the topic.

https://www.photo.net/discuss/thread...sfer-do-it-you
rself.38847/

Paul
Thanks for that.

It runs to 7 pages; I've just spent several hours reading page 1, which
took me from the original post (2002) up to about 2011 or 2012. Just
waiting for page 2 to load ... ah, it seems to be empty, as do pages 3,
4, 5, 6, and 7.

Certainly an interesting page 1 though! (And interesting how many -
though a small proportion of the total - think we're talking about 8mm
videotapes, not 8mm film.) Back on page 1 now - the last post is
2012-8-23.

I see the word "telecine" has more interpretations than I'd thought: it
seems some machines with that name are in effect film viewers, using
rotating prisms or other mechanisms. (I had only come across it in
broadcast professional circles, where it means a machine that has a
_line_ rather than frame sensor, and scans smoothly-moving film.)
There's also frequent mention of "aerial transfer", without however
anyone saying what it actually means. (I _think_ they mean using a box
with a mirror in it rather than projecting onto a wall/screen and
videoing that.)

I'm intrigued by the guy using a flatbed scanner! But only links to his
results, not his method. Also in the camera that actually screws in
place of the projector lens, but that link no longer works (it was from
2011): http://www.easy-transfert.com/product.php?id_product=21,
apparently in France.

Has anyone here done this (capture of material on cine film - to
anything digital, i. e. DVD, hard disc, memory stick ...) recently?
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