I took some incredible photos this morning at G Ross park. It reminded me that I promised to write about a few funny things that always happens.
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Now most of you met either me or Marianna at the first appointment. But in some cases (like today, stephanie booked us over 748 days before here wedding) I probably wont recognize you unless we come up with a code.
Here 3 things you can do to help me identify you are the people I'm looking for.
- If you drive into the park and see a blue jaguar s type. It's probably me. Stop say hi Jean we're the couple you are supposed to be meeting.
- Drive around the parking lot 5 times, turn your radio station to 103.5, get out of your car, look for the blue jaguar s type then come up to me and say hi Jean.
- Get on your knees, look up the in the air and say -- Oh thank you for not raining, then jump up and down say wooohooo for 3.5 minutes - look for the blue jaguar s type then come up to me and say hi Jean.
Seriously. I've sat in my car waiting for almost 30 minutes while the couple waited for me to get off the phone thinking I was busy.
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8mm & Super 8 Transfers
8mm
8mm film is a motion picture film format in which the filmstrip is eight millimeters wide. It exists in two main versions: regular, normal, or standard 8mm and Super 8 (see below). There are also two other varieties of Super 8 which require different cameras but which produce a final film with the same dimensions.
Use of 8mm mainly took place between the 1930's to 1990's, Kodak then ceased producing standard 8 mm film in the early 1990s.
The standard 8 mm film format was developed by the Eastman Kodak company during the Great Depression and released on the market in 1932 to create a home movie format less expensive than 16mm. The film spools actually contain a 16mm film with twice as many perforations along each edge than normal 16mm film, which is only exposed along half of its width. When the film reaches its end in the takeup spool, the camera is opened and the spools in the camera are flipped and swapped (the design of the spool hole ensures that this happens properly) and the same film is exposed along the side of the film left unexposed on the first loading. During processing, the film is split down the middle, resulting in two lengths of 8mm film, each with a single row of perforations along one edge, so fitting four times as many frames in the same amount of 16mm film. Because the spool was reversed after filming on one side to allow filming on the other side the format was sometimes called Double 8. The framesize of regular 8mm is 4.8mm x 3.5mm and 1m film contains 264 pictures. Normally Double8 is filmed at 16 frame/s.
Common length film spools are allowed to film about 3min to 4.5min at 12, 15, 16 and 18 frames per second.
Today nearly all the 8mm film stored in basements, closets and garages are slowly fading away. Most people will have 3 different size reels.
3" reels are the size of a hockey puck and contain 3min to 4.5min of footage. In the past people would often take these reels and edit them together on larger reels for convenient viewing. Thus the other two popular sizes are 5" and 7".
Super 8
Super 8 is a motion picture film format that was developed in the 1960s and released on the market in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement of the older 8mm home movie format.
The film is 8 mm wide, exactly the same as the older standard 8 mm film and also has perforations on only one side, but the dimensions of the perforations are reduced, allowing the exposed area to be increased in size. The Super-8 standard also specifically allocates the rebate opposite the perforations for an oxide stripe upon which sound can be magnetically recorded. There are several different varieties of the film system used for shooting, but the final film in each case has the same dimensions. By far the most popular system was the Kodak system.
Launched in 1965, the film comes in plastic light-proof cartridges containing coaxial supply and take-up spools loaded with 50 feet of film. This was enough film for 2.5 minutes at the U.S. motion picture professional standard of 24 frames per second, and for 3 minutes and 20 seconds of continuous filming at 18 frames per second for amateur use, for a total of 3600 frames. A 200-foot reel later became available which could be used in specifically-designed cameras, but that Kodak cartridge is no longer produced. The most significant difference between 8mm and Super 8 is audio. The Super-8 standard also specifically allocates the opposite of the perforations for an oxide stripe upon which sound can be magnetically recorded.
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