My dad has about 6 hours of old home movies (no sound) - taken in the late
60s and early 70s. He had a movie camera which recorded
3 minute reels. He spliced his film back then into 30 minute reels. It's
all super 8mm. He also still has his old movie
projector. It's a GAF AnscoVision 488 (Standard 8mm and Super 8mm).
Ultimately, I would love to copy our home movies onto DVDs.
With the movie projector, I projected the film on a sheet of white bristol
board from about 2 or 3 feet away and in complete
darkness. The picture is pretty good and smooth, but a little dark.
I copied about 3 minutes of the film onto my canon digital camera which I
had mounted on a tripod next to the projector. I was then
able to upload those 3 minutes from my canon camera to my computer and
it's in digital format. Unfortunately, the image quality is
terrible.
I did manage to copy 30 minutes with my wife's video camera. The quality
was better but the image flickered all the way through.
Besides that, the video camera is a 8mm video tape which I can't easily
copy to my computer in digital format.
Does anyone know how to copy old home movies into a digital format - and
without the flicker?
Thanks for all info,
Guy D
