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Posted by davesvideo@aol.com on 12/19/05 14:20
David McCall wrote:
> At this point I would hesitate to put film that I valued into
> a 40-60 year old projector. Ods are it will shred the film.
> Unless you use the projector regurally, there is a good
> chance that it the grease has hardened up, and all of
> the rubber wheels and belts have started to fail.
>
You also have to be sure which 8mm it was. In the early days it was
8mm and later came super8. The sprocket holes were different size and
super8 exposed a larger surface area within that 8mm. There were some
projectors that were dual format.
For those mot old ebough to remember, a 50ft reel of 8mm was actually
25ft of 16mm. As you ran it in camera an 8mm wide strip was exposed,
then removed the little canister and turned it over and ran it through
the other half. When developed, the 16mm was split and spliced into
50ft 8mm reel that was as I remember a bit less than 3 minutes long.
Good old days.
Dave
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