Howdy HHoggers,
I'm a long time producer of documentary photography- first acquiring many hundreds of Super-8 mag-striped sound films in the 70's, then switching over to the consumer video formats that evolved over the years from the 80s to today.
In going back over my Super-8 archive, I need a quality method to convert my original Super8 sound films to the video format for more convenient enjoyment. I am aware that film to video conversion services abound everywhere, but the financial cost of such is out of my ballpark.
So I was wondering if ANY of you in the HH readership had experience in doing the conversion yourself- at home, if you had the right equipment. I still have a high quality Elmo ST-1200 HD mag stripe projector, and a Sony RX-10 digital camera with with to "recapture" the projected image on video. But here comes the well-known dilemma- the on-screen flicker, due to the differences between film (18 or 24fps) and video (60fps). I understand that there are projection solutions called telecine projectors, which essentially eliminate the flicker issue, but again, these are financially out of my ballpark.
I have been told that one solution is to obtain a projector with a variable speed control, whereby one might modify the speed slightly so that the flicker minimizes, but the only Super8 projector I am aware of that can do that is the Elmo GS-1200, which is unfortunately still too expensive for my tastes
I have also been doing some research in modifying the shutter speed of the taking video camera to the point that perhaps the flicker effect minimizes. Older camcorders might have this feature, known as a "night shutter/slow speed shutter". But I have not been able to run any specific tests to verify if it works.
Again, any and all thoughts on this home conversion process would be appreciated.
Sincerely,
Tony Gomez

HHoggers, I had to close out my old e-mail address, and reapply with my G-mail address. Now I can hopefully catch up on discussions I've missed for the past couple of months. In reacquainting myself with the group, I'd like to mention I was the Technical Editor for Digital Photographer and Pro Digital Imaging, two of the national print magazines for digital photographers in the last decade. Alas, sadly gone due to the destruction by the Internet. But that's in the past- I read with great eagerness all that's happening today in the digital photography consumer/prosumer marketeplace and I appreciate the HH's valued experience.
I've also embarked on a huge project to digitally scan selective portions of my 35mm slide archive to my computer for inclusion in my Life Memoir. I'm the kind of guy who likes to repurpose equipment for practical uses. As a result, I've obtained a classic 35mm film scanner, the Canoscan 4000, and I'm readying it for my scanning project. The main issues are the CanoScan software was used when Windows XP was the reigning PC operating system. I now use Windows 7 Pro. I know that's still old, but it's what I've got.
So my question to HH readers is what's the best solution to get Windows XP OS to function on my Windows 7 computer, so I can get the scanning software to work? I appreciate any and all responses.
Regards,
Tony Gomez

Interestingly-YES, the SD card DOES read in the computer! But NOT in the Sony RX-10 camera- in the camera, the Sony diagnostic says to format the memory card!

HedgeHoggers,
For whatever reason, my 64GB microSD memory chip/via adapter no longer works in my Sony RX-10. The camera wants me to format it! However, since there are valuable pix on the non-readable SD card, I was wondering if any of you HH out there can recommend any free "recovery" software out there that might help me recover the inaccessible images before I format the memory card? Have Windows 7 computer! Thanks in advance!
Tony Gomez

Hi fellow HH-ers. i have a dilemma with the potential use of Lightroom and my older Wintel Ultimate 7- 32 bit system that I also use to run my main Photoshop CS4 application. A previous message I left on here recommended Lightroom to help me create pages with multiple images on a page. On reading the Tech Specs for Lightroom, I discovered something curious, and I quote: Lightroom 5 requires a multi-core Intel processor with 64-bit support. Lightroom 6 requires a 64-bit version of Windows. I do have two different boot drives- one with Windows 32 bit (the one I run Photoshop on), and one with Windows 64-bit (which I reserve for certain applications that my be better served, or that might only run on the 64-bit OS). My question to fellow HH-ers is this: are there any of you out there that use LR5 on the older Windows 32 bit OS platform with little or no issues, or have you been forced to use LR6 on the Windows 64-bit platform? Thanks in advance.

Hey fellow UHH'ers, I'm producing a Memoir of My Life that will include images at the end of the document. I wanted to print several images per page, and I was contemplating Photoshop Elements, but the word on the street is that Lightroom would be a better solution. I want something that is easy to use, with templates. But I also wanted to create high resolution prints from the TIFF images. Does anyone with experience with Lightroom have any feedback for me as to which might be easier to use as to my specific task? And would the older Lightroom 5 perform basically the same way as the newest Lightroom 6 regarding printing multiple images on a page?

Which camera mount is your Sigma 150-600 mm lens made for?
What were you thinking of selling it for?

Thanks Mark. I haven't seen Ken Burns' version of the Dust Bowl years, but based on his unique style of using still images, I'm sure it is impressive. The actual reference book on photography from the Dust Bowl Years comes from a series of photos taken by famous photographer Dorothea Lange. It contains more heart-wrenching photos that you probably haven't seen. It also contains the iconic "Migrant Mother" image of the young mother with her children that Lange encountered on her journey through the Dust Bowl states. The original book of images that was created for the US Government is long out of print but can be found on e-bay- however it's a collectible, commanding a very high price. There are many other books listed under her name at Amazon. Also available is an excellent PBS documentary made on Dorothea Lange's life and its listed in the Amazon offerings. -Tony Gomez