Re: Chopping up 3Discover

[P3D <TimMaf@xxxxxxx>]

>>I know it sounds bad, but has anyone thought of chopping up
>>a 3Discover cassette to mount the chips in single mounts
>>(RBT full frame, 7p or 2x2)?  At $6 a piece, I am tempted.
>>Why?  Use a better viewer?  Use in projection?
>>
>>-- George Themelis
>
>Yes it's been thought of and done. Check digest 1945, item 1 and 3
>for the post describing exactly that. By your truly. :-) 
>
>Gabriel

I just got my 3Discover last weekend from Dalia and in playing 
around noticed motion picture keycode on the film. I'm guessing
that the originals are shot using motion picture film and they
are having a movie lab do the printing. I keep forgetting to check
on which stock they're using.

This falls right in with a little item of interest from our local 
industry rag. It seems that VM's newest product (with sound
I believe) has a slightly different size frame which required
them to go to Portland's film lab to have dupes printed. The 
lab reports running 1 Million feet of film during the year
for VM.

Of course, for this doesn't bode well for those of use who want 
this stuff to last for a while. Motion picture film is pretty 
unstable.

Tim Maffia 


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