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Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Scanning 8mm movie film to digital
From: John Hermanson <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:58:44 -0400
8mm was 16 or 18 fps.

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Walt Wayman wrote:
> Chuck,
> 
> Not sure enough about the 8mm to give an answer, but a roll of 16mm film of 
> that size is 100 feet in length.  At 24 fps, 100 ft. runs 2.75 minutes (166.5 
> seconds, to be precise).  If you know the length, it's easy to figure the 
> time, because at 24 fps, three feet runs five seconds.  I've got boxes of the 
> stuff somewhere "down there."
> 
> Walt
> 
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from 
> the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
> Edward Weston
> 
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
>>Holy smokes!  I just dug a little deeper and discovered two rolls of 
>>16mm B&W.  I have some leftover bits of the 8mm camera but I never knew 
>>he had a 16mm camera.
>>
>>Anyhow, any notion of what the run time might be for different reel 
>>sizes?  All but one of the reels are quite full coming to within a few 
>>millimters of the diameter of the reels themselves.  The outside 
>>diameter of the reels for the 8mm stuff is either 75 or 125mm.  The 
>>diameter of the 16mm reels is 90mm.  I think the frame rate on these 8 
>>and 16mm cameras was about 24 fps but I have no clue as to how many 
>>frames fit on a reel.
>>
>>Chuck Norcutt
>>
> 



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