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Posted by mv on 03/20/07 13:33
In message <etoket$sqt$1@atlantis.news.tpi.pl>, Maciej Szymanski
<ms@no.spam.here.asor.com.pl> writes
>ushere wrote:
>> so, i take it you're going to open a museum? ;-P
>
>Rather private collection ;-)
>
>> so you're going to shoot a retro tv program?
>
>I'm not a professional. I am an amateur (and I hope in meaning
>'somebody who is doing something because he likes to' not 'somebody who
>is doing something poorly') and I'm doing some short documentary
>projects for my own pleasure - and they are shown in local clubs etc. -
>not broadcasted. And working with old gear is part of this pleasure - I
>just like to fiddle with manual controls and hear deck's mechanism
>clicks ;-) And also I like if my final project has this
>not-so-sharp-but-smooth-and-noiseless look of old TV documentary.
>
>Maciek
Sorry Maciek but you're still talking bollocks, especially where you
say; "And also I like if my final project has this
not-so-sharp-but-smooth-and-noiseless look of old TV documentary." The
recording you make on the equipment in question will be very noisy
indeed, even if it is working at its best, which is unlikely, and one
should not mistake appallingly low resolution for smoothness. The colour
registration will flare and saturated colours will go crazy. No TV
documentary outside the Third World or very parochial US Public
Broadcast stations, was ever produced on such equipment. There is
nothing about the equipment you intend to use that has any redeeming
features at all.
Why on earth anyone, except perhaps Walter Mitty, would want to use
such unwieldy, awkward and poor quality equipment today I can't imagine.
Did someone give you the equipment? Perhaps it's hard to get hold of
even a middle of the scale consumer miniDV camcorder in Poland. I could
appreciate that the economic reality might simply be such that you have
no option other than to use the equipment you found in a skip or some
lost cupboard of an institution? How do you intend to edit film?
--
john
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