G'Mornin' All!
I'm considering the purchase of an E-M5 (or OM-D) with the 12/2, 45/1.8 &
75/1.8 Zuiko's.
However, I have a question about the video function ... one that I cannot seem
to find an answer to, so I'm hoping the assembled expertise here, has some
experience in this matter.
My wife's father was an engineer, by trade, but shot 16mm movies of his big
game hunting trips to Alaska and Mexico, in the 1940's. He shot Kodachrome,
and the colour is still good!
She'd like me to convert them to video on DVD but the cost is prohibitive, as
commercial operations want fifteen to twenty five cents per running foot, and
we have 10's of thousands of feet of film!
BTW: these films were good enough, that her dad traveled the lecture circuit,
throughout Canada and his native US, showing & narrating his silent films on a
semi-professional basis after he retired. He did the circuit from the
mid-1950's through much of the 60's.
My thought is to project them on a small screen and then film them using the
OM-D. I'd use one of several, older macro-lenses that I have via adapters, as
neither focus nor exposure will be issues.
Questions:
1) We have a number of 1200 & 1600 foot reels, which (at 16fps) will run 50 to
66 minutes. Will the OM-D make movies for that long, in one go, without
overheating the sensor? Or will I have to break the recording in to shorter
sessions? (I will, anyway, if the film breaks during projection!)
2) Assuming i can run that long, what size of card will I need, to hold a
session?
3) If I have to break it into smaller sessions, what software do you recommend
to assemble the bits back into a DVD?
3) There will, of course, be flicker, though I'm going to experiment with a
VARIAC, to try to slow projection to 15 fps, thus allowing two 30fps fields for
each frame. If this fails, is there software that can help with this?
This will be no small undertaking as we have dozens of these large reels, and
many more smaller, family films, that she'd like me to preserve.
I'd like to do it as well as I can, thus this hare-brained scheme.
Any and all advice/thoughts appreciated, for while I'm an old-timer at
film/stills, I know nada about video.
Many thanks.
David.
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