"Gonna be show & telling my Double/Regular8mm optical printer (merci Matt
McWilliams for all his essential help)."

I've been blessed to see this up close and it's radder than it even
sounds 🤘

On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 6:04 PM Sandy McLennan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hell yeah! See you there. Gonna be show & telling my Double/Regular8mm
> optical printer (merci Matt McWilliams for all his essential help). Looking
> forward to it; glad you're going.
>
> Sandy
>
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 5:57 PM Anna Kipervaser <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, optical printing is a route I also use often, and hell yea making
>> magic Double 8mm and Reg8mm films in the JK and tape splicing . Can't wait
>> to see your new films, Sandy, and hope to see you in Toronto next month!
>>
>> Scott - Presstape ain't what I would use. But, then again, I'm just here
>> offering to tape splice folks' negatives. Re the blur, again - depends on
>> the tape being used, the person doing the splicing, and the eyes/glasses
>> the person is using. Anywho, I'm not trying to start an argument about tape
>> vs cement or get or give lessons. Just asking whether folks are cutting
>> their own negs these days or if y'all are sending things out to get cut,
>> or, as Jeff points out, if folks are doing film-outs instead.
>>
>> Always,
>>  Anna
>>
>>
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>> anna kipervaser
>> annakipervaser.com
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 5:45 PM Sandy McLennan <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Good on ya, mate. Perhaps not in the same boat, but I’ll be tape
>>> splicing some camera-original Double8mm and Regular8; not worried about
>>> seeing it when optically printing then contact printing from that. Visually
>>> part of the process.
>>>
>>> I didn’t realize splicing towards a release print is as common a current
>>> topic as it apparently is.  Been decades since I did it. Difficult, yet
>>> defining. Splice on!
>>>
>>> Sandy McLennan
>>> Port Sydney, Ontario
>>>
>>> > On Apr 22, 2023, at 5:32 PM, Scott Dorsey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > A-B rolling with a couple frames of overlap, you can get away with
>>> tape but
>>> > there's always a little blur at the splice because the tape never goes
>>> over
>>> > the sprockets in the printer perfectly.  With a dissolve where there
>>> is a
>>> > couple dozen frames of overlap I can't really tell the difference.
>>> >
>>> > I once edited a short film with a Kodak Presstape Splicer, using a four
>>> > frame overlap, and it went okay.
>>> >
>>> > But these days you can buy an M-H hot splicer for pennies on the
>>> dollar so
>>> > there isn't so much of a need anymore...
>>> > --scott
>>> >
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