Super Printing

[jenchau]

Hello everyone -
I'm a still photographer but am interested in shooting with a Super 8 as an experiment. Does anyone know whether I can print from Super 8 negatives like I would from photographic negatives, or anything of the sort? Or maybe someone to ask?
Thanks!

[Alex]

The Irony of Ironies, I get better results if I make a High-Resolution video transfer of the Super-8 film, then use the Sony-DPP-MS300 Video Printer which will make nice looking 4 x 6 inch prints.

The Sony Printer acheives 306 DPI for color prints that are 4x6. If you import into an NLE environment, I've heard that the effective DPI is only 72. I don't exactly understand how that works.

[Alex]

The BW images from the "Body Glove" music video were done in this matter, and from images that were several generations form the original, the last two being on VHS! [img]rolleyes.gif[/img]

[cameraguy]

<font color="#a62a2a"><font size="1">[ August 29, 2003 06:30 AM: Message edited by: cameraguy ]</font></font>

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Originally posted by noodlita:
Hello everyone -
I'm a still photographer but am interested in shooting with a Super 8 as an experiment. Does anyone know whether I can print from Super 8 negatives like I would from photographic negatives, or anything of the sort? Or maybe someone to ask?
Thanks!

<font size="2" face="verdana, sans-serif">From Kodak there is mostly reversal film for Super 8 which is ready for projection. You could build a macro set up where you take a picture of the Super 8 frame with a 35mm (or digital) camera. Then you make your print from the 35mm negative.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ September 21, 2003 02:50 AM: Message edited by: Alex ]</font>

[Alex]

I went to an actual Hollywood BW photo developing place in the early 90's to try and get some nice BW enlargements from some super-8 frames.

The place was called Alan's Custom Lab, a very popular place for actor headshots and artistic BW.

My situation was unique, and the final result was not very good. 10 years later, I can get superior results from my Sony Video Printer, and in color!