IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

Uher, Beaulieu , Arri? Us poor kids from oop't North couldn't afford such kit! Seriously, such equipment was fantastic, but with regard to sound I've came to appreciate how crude tape recorders were in some respects, having spent some time "under the bonnet" recently. It's not far off the ...

I'm just breathing in the heady atmosphere of hot valves and electrical contact cleaner!

Just a word of thanks for all your replies. I'll keep looking back at this in case anyone has anything else to add. I've managed to resurrect one of the old machines I mentioned and can definitely endorse Ned's comments re. bulk and weight. Although I was a bit sniffy about compact cassettes when th...

Ned The weight and bulk of old tape machines is something I'm aware of as I have three 1960s vintage "non runners" bought from e-bay, one of which I hope to get working again. (Note that the emphasis is on "hope" rather than "expectation"!) In the 1960s I had a portable...

Michael seems to echo the comments of Ned in finding synch sound hard to achieve with 8mm but possible with 16mm; could this be due to both the size of the film and the fact that 16mm was used in a professional / semi-professional way such that both protocols and tools existed to edit it? For instan...

Ned, thanks for taking the time and trouble to post your comments which I found quite interesting. Although I have to admit to having no experience of editing cine film, I did do quite a lot with sound / tape when I was younger and have edited sound and pictures digitally. This being said, the books...

It's an interesting comment you make, Dave, about coming to grips with the aesthetics of sound. While the 1940s-50s issue of Amateur Cine World have many practical examples of DIY synchronization hardware, there are also letters that can only be described as antagonistic to the adoption of sync soun...

Hello I became interested in film and video after making a retirement video for a colleague in the day job about five years ago. I'm retired myself now but unfortunately live around fifteen miles from the nearest movie makers club such that joining one would be problematic. I also suffer from indiff...