The air shows takes me back to the 80’s when we watched The Blue Angels in San Diego where we were stationed. Thanks for the memories of the best time in my childhood ❤️
What a fantastic family history - among the best home movie compilations I've seen. I really enjoyed the family story and watching the kids grow. Lots of action with aviation & Apollo. My favorite scene was the Christmas presents. Nice color, nice scan, great editing.
Wow you did a great job. I can appreciate all of the hard work. Nearly every scene reminds me of our childhood times in NJ and PA, and annual trips to FL. What ski resort was this, by the way?
Hi Michael....thanks for the compliments. I have less than an ideal system for this so there are some technical aspects of this that drive my perfectionist self a little crazy. It's deep in the weeds stuff that us home movie digitizer nuts can appreciate. As for the ski areas. Sadly the documentation, and everyone's memory of where things are, are a bit sketchy 50 years on. But some of the ski areas could be Hidden Valley near Pittsburgh, but more likely King Ridge in New Hampshire. There might be some Sunapee Ski Resort in NH tossed in there for good measure.
I think it was some kind of Bell and Howell. Not a particularly high end camera. Although it was 16mm, it was a consumer level camera. There were a lot of exposure errors, and a fair number of focus errors when the film was shot. And to be honest this was not my best digitizing effort. I wanted to get it done as quickly as possible, and I was forced to take a lot of shortcuts for a lack of equipment upgrades. I was lucky to get it done, but my Workprinter 16 projector had some interface equipment from 15 year old PC technology, and I was lucky to find an inexpensive conversion device that allowed the scanning projector to talk to a modern PC. The original images were acquired in standard definition (720 X 480 pixels) and it was interlaced. That's kinda Grade Z stuff in my book. But it's viewable. Tons of scene by scene color correction pushed the footage into acceptable. If I live long enough I may do it all over again. I have this theory that with the advance of AI and software, scanning old films will allow for amazing transformations. With crude rudimentary low resolution 8mm film, you will be able to re-create and replace stuff to the point of the finished project being 4k/8k and utterly photo realistic. Never throw away the old film. "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson demonstrated this with some grainy degraded World War 1 film that his tech folks utterly transformed to make it look like it was shot yesterday with modern equipment.
@@calvertthedad was it like a Bell & Howell Filmo 70 series? It’s amazing how many ppl during the 80s And 90s transferred their films to videotape and got rid of their reels because they thought they had the latest and greatest not knowing there was going to be an Even better way to do it.
@@vinylbuff1515 my kids didn’t play outside near as much as I did as a child. With the invention of pay station, the computer, and Nintendo, we usually had all three going at once on any given day.
The air shows takes me back to the 80’s when we watched The Blue Angels in San Diego where we were stationed. Thanks for the memories of the best time in my childhood ❤️
That boat looks alot like the Mini Ha Ha on LG. Very cool old Movies.
What a fantastic family history - among the best home movie compilations I've seen. I really enjoyed the family story and watching the kids grow. Lots of action with aviation & Apollo. My favorite scene was the Christmas presents. Nice color, nice scan, great editing.
Wow you did a great job. I can appreciate all of the hard work. Nearly every scene reminds me of our childhood times in NJ and PA, and annual trips to FL. What ski resort was this, by the way?
Hi Michael....thanks for the compliments. I have less than an ideal system for this so there are some technical aspects of this that drive my perfectionist self a little crazy. It's deep in the weeds stuff that us home movie digitizer nuts can appreciate. As for the ski areas. Sadly the documentation, and everyone's memory of where things are, are a bit sketchy 50 years on. But some of the ski areas could be Hidden Valley near Pittsburgh, but more likely King Ridge in New Hampshire. There might be some Sunapee Ski Resort in NH tossed in there for good measure.
On the question of camera type. I will have to ask. The camera isn't around anymore, but the owner is still alive, so I'll ask him.
Thanks for sharing, lovely times and a wonderful family! Do you happen to know what film camera was used? Just curious.
I think it was some kind of Bell and Howell. Not a particularly high end camera. Although it was 16mm, it was a consumer level camera. There were a lot of exposure errors, and a fair number of focus errors when the film was shot. And to be honest this was not my best digitizing effort. I wanted to get it done as quickly as possible, and I was forced to take a lot of shortcuts for a lack of equipment upgrades. I was lucky to get it done, but my Workprinter 16 projector had some interface equipment from 15 year old PC technology, and I was lucky to find an inexpensive conversion device that allowed the scanning projector to talk to a modern PC. The original images were acquired in standard definition (720 X 480 pixels) and it was interlaced. That's kinda Grade Z stuff in my book. But it's viewable. Tons of scene by scene color correction pushed the footage into acceptable. If I live long enough I may do it all over again. I have this theory that with the advance of AI and software, scanning old films will allow for amazing transformations. With crude rudimentary low resolution 8mm film, you will be able to re-create and replace stuff to the point of the finished project being 4k/8k and utterly photo realistic. Never throw away the old film. "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson demonstrated this with some grainy degraded World War 1 film that his tech folks utterly transformed to make it look like it was shot yesterday with modern equipment.
@@calvertthedad was it like a Bell & Howell Filmo 70 series? It’s amazing how many ppl during the 80s And 90s transferred their films to videotape and got rid of their reels because they thought they had the latest and greatest not knowing there was going to be an Even better way to do it.
Seeing kids play outside is almost unheard of today, especially in this PC paranoid world we live in now
What are you talking about, my street is always full of kids playing
@@vinylbuff1515 my kids didn’t play outside near as much as I did as a child. With the invention of pay station, the computer, and Nintendo, we usually had all three going at once on any given day.
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