> On Jul 29, 2017, at 11:08 AM, ANDY HOLT via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> I guess that depends on your opinion of "reasonable".
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> I have a number of 8mm home videos my father made but every place I looked
> at was prohibitively expensive (several hundred dollars per reel!!)
Wow. I just did a quick web search and found prices in the $10 to $20 range.
On 8 mm types: there's the original 8 mm (later called "double 8" because the
unexposed film is essentially 16 mm film which is exposed on one side, flipped
over, and exposed on the other side, then slit in half to make 8 mm finished
film). Then there is super 8, which is a different format entirely. Around
the time super 8 was introduced, some company came out with yet a third format
called "single 8". I haven't seen that lately, and I don't know anything about
how it relates to the other two. If I remember right, it came in a casette
with the two spools enclosed in a single figure 8 shaped enclosure, for ease in
handling.
paul
