tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7168838311233857690.post6158666184805699570..comments2023-10-08T08:57:46.703-06:00Comments on My Vintage Cameras: Saturday's Online: What Losing Acetate Film really means......MyVintageCamerashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02305373259154226492noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7168838311233857690.post-8314799628253240452013-08-11T13:18:14.635-06:002013-08-11T13:18:14.635-06:00Bill you are so right about the preservation issue...Bill you are so right about the preservation issue. And that frightens me the most. As a fan of silent movies I know that close to 90% of all the silent films ever made were lost due to nitrate films. Digital in its own way is just as volatile as nitrate film, so we are taking a step backwards.<br /><br />I am also alarmed by the numerous small regional film festivals in the Denver and Rocky Mountain region that are struggling to raise money for the new digital projectors. I am sure this is a nation-wide problem I also wonder if they are still going to distribute motion pictures on reel-film overseas? I just can't see the entire world making this change overnight.MyVintageCamerashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02305373259154226492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7168838311233857690.post-59464651097136660932013-08-10T22:10:37.462-06:002013-08-10T22:10:37.462-06:00Thanks for the information on Seattle Film Works. ...Thanks for the information on Seattle Film Works. I shot many many rolls of their film and many photographers really gave me crap about it. Yet my shots are as good now as they were back in the 70s & 80s. I thought that Seattle switched to polyester with the E-6. I do remember the quality went down and they were sold or something. I quit using their film probably in the early 90s.<br /><br />Digitizing is not the way to go. It'll be like digital TV, poor quality and audio / video sync problems. TV stations love digital (and it shows in the poor video feeds) because now they can and do air any old garbage sent them from anyones camera whether a low-res. phone or a pro DSLR or digital video camera. 90% of the time the audio is out of sync with the video even from the studio.<br /><br />Digital preservation is also a problem. Formats change so often and the digital processing changes and with each change will be problems with conversion.<br /><br />Long live the old B & W and color films. Like decades old Kodachrome they will long outlast digital.Bill Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14649212489891769390noreply@blogger.com