This post shows a video which was edited from a digital transfer from some good old fashioned analogue 8mm film. Taken with a Fuji Single-8 movie camera; no sound, 16 frames per second, fixed focus, point and shoot – probably the movie camera equivalent of a ‘toy camera’ with wonderful artifacts, colour and retro look to the finished movies.
This example is just a small snippet of some film I shot for Powershovel/Superheadz featuring my favourite plastic Twin Lens Reflex Camera, the blackbird,fly which anyone who has actually been reading this blog (and I know there are a faithful few, thank you!) will be aware of.
Thanks to my lovely family and many thanks to Nick and all at Powershovel/Superheadz.
I have edited the footage in iMovie ‘09 and the backing music is ‘Laconic Granny’ by Kevin MacLeod
Hi Chris, thanks for that. Regarding who transferred the 8mm to digital is concerned, I am not sure as my good friends in Tokyo organized that, I would hazard a guess it was a place called Retro Enterprises – also in Tokyo, they seem to be the go to guys for all things 8mm film.
[...] Another colourful capture of my beautiful (if slightly bonkers) kids, sheltering from cosmic rays under a rainbow striped umbrella. Sprocket holes courtesy of the blackbird,fly cameras different masking options. This image was taken as part of a little 8mm filming project of which a small movie snippet can be seen here: documenting the capturing of Umbrella Girls. [...]
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hey that’s well put together, so how did you transfer the 8mm to digi?
Hi Chris, thanks for that. Regarding who transferred the 8mm to digital is concerned, I am not sure as my good friends in Tokyo organized that, I would hazard a guess it was a place called Retro Enterprises – also in Tokyo, they seem to be the go to guys for all things 8mm film.
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[...] Another colourful capture of my beautiful (if slightly bonkers) kids, sheltering from cosmic rays under a rainbow striped umbrella. Sprocket holes courtesy of the blackbird,fly cameras different masking options. This image was taken as part of a little 8mm filming project of which a small movie snippet can be seen here: documenting the capturing of Umbrella Girls. [...]
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