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Old 16-03-11, 23:25
Phil Waterman Phil Waterman is offline
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Default How did you do the conversion of the film to start?

Hi Keith

As I understand it the Ford film was 16mm how did you get it from film to digital?

Whats the name of the software your talking about.

I have two copies of the film of my truck as 16mm one sound one silent, both are in very good condition I suspect neither of them had been run more than a couple of times.

To begin the problem my digital copy http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.c...%20V1_0002.wmv was done by projecting the film on a flat white screen and using a video camera. Though I do have a short section that was done by a the Today Show from film out of a New York film library.

Given the relatively short segment of film showing my truck I've been thinking of using the high resolution film scanner I've been scanning in all my 35mm negatives with I can push the resolution on that up to 9600dpi to 12800dpi I've tried a couple of frames this way and the resolution exceeds the grain of the film. Here is a single frame dumb down to 72 DPI for the web http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.c...s/NYParade.jpg and already you can see the limitation of the grain.

What I'm hoping to get is really high resolution images of my truck in June 19 1945. What is a really kick in the head is the US National Archives in Washington DC had the original of this and another much longer film of the parade showing a number of other shots of my truck on 35mm movie film I reviewed it one time when I was in Washington. But when I asked them to make a copy they could not find either of the films. Every couple of years I put in a request for the same two films to see if they have been found.

Thanks for your help I look forward to any information on how I might proceed.

Cheers Phil
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