: [Frameworks] Super 8 to 35mm Optical Blowup (from Ross Lipman)
Hi Mark,
Ross here (writing from Charlotte's account) -
as always you make many excellent points! However I thought it important
to write, because I fear that some of the opinions expressed here veer
dangerously to thou
Hi Chris,
I'm glad you asked, as it's a subject I feel fairly passionately about.
I'll first just clarify that the super 8 to 35mm blowup I'm seeking is
purely for a project of my own which has to do with the large stretch
between the two formats (i.e. it's a film which has specifically to do
And as for 35 outlasting 16, we've seen where that's gone -
only a handful of devoted cinephiliac venues and museums can handle 35mm
now, and a lot of those handle 16mm too.
Thanks Mark. That's my feeling, too. Just wanted to make sure you didn't
have some other observations that I was missing
frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Super 8 to 35mm Optical Blowup
Hi Chris,
I'm glad you asked, as it's a subject I feel fairly passionately about.
I'll first just clarify that the super 8 to 35mm blowup I'm seeking is
purely for a project of my own which has to do with the large
I'm surprised no one mentioned the master; Bill Brand. Here's his website:
http://www.bboptics.com/biography.html
Ken
www.kenpaulrosenthal.comwww.maddancementalhealthfilmtrilogy.com
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Bill didn't, to my knowledge, do 35mm. And unfortunately he's actually no
longer doing optical work, last I spoke to him (month or two ago).
Mark
On Mar 15, 2015, at 8:16 AM, Ken Paul Rosenthal
kenpaulrosent...@hotmail.com wrote:
I'm surprised no one mentioned the master; Bill Brand.
Tommy Aschenbach at Video Film Solutions (next door to Colorlab) can do
beautiful 5K digital scans and 5K filmouts to both 16mm and 35mm. There are
many virtues to a proper digital blowup, including the ability to deal with
differing gammas in the originals on a frame by frame or shot by shot
