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- Path: sparky!uunet!uscghq!lederman
- From: lederman@taney.uscghq.uscg.mil
- Newsgroups: rec.video
- Subject: Re: transferring film to video
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.121159.118@taney.uscghq.uscg.mil>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 12:11:58 EST
- References: <1992Dec23.222509.20684@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> <28DEC199210292852@addvax.llnl.gov>
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- I transferred some of my 8mm films to video with a similar
- method which is a bit easier. I have a table-top viewing screen
- which contains a mirror and a back-projection screen. The idea
- is that you can show your movies on a small screen which can be
- carried around, and without having to darken the entire room.
- It's possible to rig up "shrouds" to exclude all light from the
- image path. My one problem is that my old video camera has a
- seperate color temperature sensor rather than sensing color from
- the image. I had to shine a separate light on it to correct the
- color. A new camcorder probably won't have this problem.
-
- A better transfer ought to be with no screen in the path. I
- have considered doing this by buying one of those "spy" devices
- you can put onto a lens which contains a mirror so you are
- shooting at right angles to the direction you are facing: this
- will correct the right-to-left aspect of the image. Then if your
- camcorder can focus very close, or if you put a field lens
- between the projector and camera, you should be able to do a
- direct transfer with no screen. I haven't tried this yet, but it
- should work.
-
- The "best" transfer would probably be with a camera where you
- can remove the lens and project the image directly onto the
- pick-up (tube or CCD) but my camera can't do this.
-