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Posted by Steve King on 10/10/59 11:45
"David McCall" <david.mccall@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:4j71g.5698$_w6.3481@trndny09...
> I'll buy that BetaSP is better than 3/4", but the ONLY thing better
> about 3/4" over 1" was the weight of the equipment, and perhaps
> the convenience of a cassette.
I admit it. I got carried away.
2" quad was at least equal to 1",
> except that you needed an engineer close at hand to clean and
> tweak the machine every time you changed a tape. 16mm was
> one of the best consumer formats ever developed, but it pales in
> comparison to 35mm for robustness.
>
> 16mm a consumer format? Yes it was early on. As was 3/4" and
> DV. They all just turned out to be "good enough" for the professional
> market to adopt them.
I just did a short memorial video for a friend. We used some 16 mm footage
that had been converted to VHS long ago, but not enough long ago that the
Ectachrome hadn't faded to blah. Conversely, a few years ago I helped to
put together some historical footage of sailing in chicago. We had reels of
Kodachrome from the '30s. The Kodachrome was still wonderful looking. (I
suppose it could have been another formulation, but I seem to recall that
that was the designation on the film boxes the reels were in.) There were
lots of those wind-up 16 mm cameras about in the 30s and 40s, both Kodak and
Bolex.
Steve King
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