Re: Home movies

[P3D Norm Lehfeldt <norml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Actually, I kind of miss the old Super-8 days. Then, when your neighbor
>subjected you to his home movies, it was usually only a few 3 or 4 minute reels
>of the baby babbling. Now you get two hours at a stretch!

Exactly as I predicted when home video first began to catch on. Kodak used
to advertise that a single roll of 8mm Kodachrome was enough to record the
highlights of a week-end. They were right.

That's one of the reasons that, after a brief early fling with video, I
continue to use 8mm, Super 8 and, occasionally, 16mm film. The film has a
storage life that far exceeds tape and the all-metal projectors will still
be running when the ABS VCR have turned to dust. If your tape DOES survive,
there won't be a compatible machine to play it on.

My latest equipment find is a vintage 1960, Ricoh standard 8mm SOUND projector

If you think you might want to dust off that old movie camera, I can  tell
you how to get 8mm and Super 8 monochrome and color film. There is even a
source of ASA 160 double 8mm Ektachrome.

Yes, I am a stick-in-the-mud. That's why I still take stereo pictures, too!

Norm Lehfeldt


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