Ferrari Mailing List: Re: NFC: Riverside International 1968

[Les Thompson (les21]

Peter,

Glad you enjoyed my foray into the past.

I've played with the method your Dad used with some success. There are tricks to help reduce flicker, but none work really well. You can find special projectors with a 5-blade shutter, but still a lot of work. There is a lot of information on the different cine to digital processes on the internet. This time, I went the professional route with a local business near me called DVDyourMemories. One of the pluses was that I could hand deliver my film and not risk it via post.

They scan each frame individually and then use software re-animate it. As part of the process they used software to reduce jitter, correct color and exposure problems. Cost was about 42 cents per foot, not cheap, but I feel the results were worth it. They were busy and it took them about 3 weeks to get my 3,300 feet of film back to me on a hard drive.

The film will continue to disintegrate, but the digital copies should remain pristine for years to come. I made backup's of the hard drive and keep the original one in a fireproof file cabinet. Easy to burn DVD's from the files or share like I did this footage.

Cheers,

Les Thompson

-----Original Message----- 

From: Peter Rychel 

Sent: Oct 17, 2015 12:04 AM 

To: Les Thompson 

Cc: The FerrariList 

Subject: RE: [Ferrari] NFC: Riverside International 1968 

Amazing story and great video.

Speaking of that, how did you convert from 8mm to video? My Dad was experimenting a while ago with his old 8mm movies... FPS is different between movie (I think 24 FPS?) to modern digital (I think 30 FPS?). He essentially just projected the movie onto a screen and videoed it directly (camera and projector side-by-side), but what he did to correct the difference of FPS, I don't know (maybe his camera can do that automatically?). 

Peter

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:59:36 -0700

From: les21 [at] ix.netcom.com

Subject: [Ferrari] NFC: Riverside International 1968

CC: ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com

To: dino308gt4 [at] hotmail.com

A while back I posted some photos of RIR back in the day. Just got my old 8mm movies digitized, so here is some footage of me running a speed trial in my 1652 MG TD (#21) back in February of 1968. 

All taken with a wind up regular 8mm camera, so no nifty engine noises. My uncle rode along and took the in car footage. Had to wind the camera back up just as we came into Turn 6, so missed seeing the old boilerplate close up.

Bought the MG in 1965 and still own it 50 years later. Some other nifty cars in the background, this was before they were too valuable to play with. Didn't get a picture of the brand new SAAB that had been rolled going it 6 and then slid on it's nose and roof into the boilerplate. Dealer tags and plastic still over the pristine interior.

https://youtu.be/QG45gBNdJnA

Enjoy,

Les Thompson

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