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by tom hardwick
Mon Feb 26, 2024 3:40 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Where next for the IAC?
Replies: 22
Views: 2300

Re: Where next for the IAC?

What a great chain this post has turned out to be. It could almost be copied verbatim and given 3 pages in FVM. In fact I wonder how many readers of FVM have read this forum post? I bet about 10 tops.
by tom hardwick
Tue May 09, 2023 2:04 pm
Forum: Film Comments - a moderated forum
Topic: 50 plus year old film !
Replies: 10
Views: 22993

Re: 50 plus year old film !

Albert - is that a transfer from 16mm? Looks very good to me.
by tom hardwick
Tue May 09, 2023 1:59 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF RESULTS 2023
Replies: 48
Views: 15696

Re: BIAFF RESULTS 2023

The colour system of film grading does indeed have its merits, but wasn't it superseded by the Star awards to enable our judges to have a greater range of categories in which to place a film? There's also the mythical contestant who flew in from a far off and distant land expecting to receive the br...
by tom hardwick
Sun Apr 02, 2023 1:11 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF RESULTS 2023
Replies: 48
Views: 15696

Re: BIAFF RESULTS 2023

John Simpson and Michael Slowe make good points about seeing films on the big screen at the cinema, but I've long made the observation that most of the modern multiplex presentations are awful. Far too many 'safety' exit lights on. Centre stairwell LEDs all reflecting in the screen. Projectors not f...
by tom hardwick
Sun Apr 02, 2023 12:55 pm
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: 16mm sound film transfer
Replies: 3
Views: 5947

Re: 16mm sound film transfer

Albert - did you get the 16mm digitised? Happy? Where?
by tom hardwick
Sun Apr 02, 2023 12:51 pm
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: 35mm slide scanners
Replies: 3
Views: 1808

Re: 35mm slide scanners

I agree, the cheepie slide/neg scanners are so so, and best ignored. With a little care and a little light table a smartphone can do a pretty good job, as my Positive Image article on the subject pointed out. Alternatively I know a man who does this work to a very high standard, and funnily enough h...
by tom hardwick
Sun Apr 02, 2023 12:44 pm
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: YouTube cut my video short
Replies: 5
Views: 3612

Re: YouTube cut my video short

Did that help you Jill? Have you managed to upload the 1 hr version?
by tom hardwick
Sun Apr 02, 2023 12:36 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF RESULTS 2023
Replies: 48
Views: 15696

Re: BIAFF RESULTS 2023

Strangely enough, being a BIAFF judge for many a year, I thought my 2015 film 'Susanna' wasn't really worthy of the 4*s it was given. I was pleased to get 4*s of course, but it did make me think there's room for a + and - system to be put in place. In other words your film can get 3*-, 3*, 3*+, 4*-,...
by tom hardwick
Fri Jan 13, 2023 5:20 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: FVM - Feb 23 Issue
Replies: 7
Views: 3780

Re: FVM - Feb 23 Issue

I do hope the printers admit their fault, refund the IAC for their errors, and more importantly do some checks before they run off the next batch of FVMs. I know the images I supplied for Positive Image were all printed darker than they should've been.
by tom hardwick
Wed Nov 16, 2022 9:51 am
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: PANASONIC LUMIX GH 4
Replies: 4
Views: 6969

Re: PANASONIC LUMIX GH 4

I'm tempted to ask why go to all the bother of using an anamorphic, Pq? OK, it does give a certain 'look' to images, especially those that contain point sources of light, but on the other hand it does introduce its own selection of compromises, some of which degrade the image technically. Why not si...
by tom hardwick
Wed Nov 16, 2022 9:43 am
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: 16mm sound film transfer
Replies: 3
Views: 5947

Re: 16mm sound film transfer

Sorry, I can't help. I have no personal experience of having 16mm film transfers done, and without that I can't recommend anyone.
by tom hardwick
Wed Nov 16, 2022 9:39 am
Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
Topic: Filming with an iphone
Replies: 10
Views: 10442

Re: Filming with an iphone

To come back to your original question John, all the latest smartphones use a combination of optical image stabilisation (where the lens assembly vibrates 'out of phase' to counteract the camera person's vibrations), along with digital smoothing as a clean-up operation. This real-time processing doe...
by tom hardwick
Wed Nov 16, 2022 9:15 am
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: FVM October 2022 issue
Replies: 23
Views: 12129

Re: FVM October 2022 issue

The good news is that the December issue of FVM is even better, and in almost all respects. The mag was even difficult to get out of its paper envelope it was so well sealed up. So much so that's it's left a bit of a sticky residue on the front cover. That cover photo made me groan a bit, but then a...
by tom hardwick
Wed Nov 16, 2022 8:25 am
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: AGM 2022 - what should we aim for?
Replies: 4
Views: 6383

Re: AGM 2022 - what should we aim for?

And it turned out to be an excellent Zoom gathering. Half an hour of AGM formalities, then another 90 minutes of any other business, when all sorts of interesting topics came to light.
by tom hardwick
Tue Apr 26, 2022 5:25 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF 2022
Replies: 77
Views: 50819

Re: BIAFF 2022

Thirst is just one possible future, isn't it? I liked the way we were drip-fed information about the post-apocalyptic world humans find themselves in. This bleak visualisation is reinforced by the silences, the grey days, the wind, the deserted landscapes, the tattered clothes and sudden outbursts o...