[MacDV] Re: DV transfers, camera quality

[Peter Clarke]

I've only played a little with film transfers.  May want to test some 
shutter settings since 8 mm is 16 frames per second and  NTSC DV is 30fps.  
Or some projectors may be able to adjust frame rate slightly.


>From: Steven Rogers <srogers1 at austin.rr.com>
>Reply-To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>Subject: [MacDV] Re: DV transfers, camera quality
>Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 00:54:48 -0500
>
>
>On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 11:40 PM, Paul Williams wrote:
>
>>I'm going to have some 8mm films transferred to DV format. I then want to 
>>import them using a MiniDV camera (I'm thinking the Canon GL2). How 
>>important is the quality of the camera used to do the importing? I'm 
>>wondering if it's worth a big dollar investment just to import (play back) 
>>this footage if the camera itself won't be used to record the footage 
>>being imported.
>
>So long as the camera can play the tape, I don't think it makes any 
>difference. There camera sends out the data that's on the tape. There's not 
>much room for interpretation like there is with analog tape playback.
>
>SR
>
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