My life in a day?

By MartnA

9.5mm

Found three small reels of 9.5mm home movies. Tried scanning yesterday which worked really well but the EXIF data wasn't liked by Blipfoto...
Back in the loft today and found a really ancient projector.

Amazingly the thing still works, probably hasn't been touched for 40 years or so but the bulb and motor still worked. Rigged up a small back-projection screen, ran the film back to front (9.5mm has sprockets in the middle between frames so it can run any which way round or up - useful) and record from the back using my EOS7D. Bit of fun, may blip the set-up some day. Not the best of quality but cheaper than commercial transfer and gives an idea of what the content is.

Took some screen grabs:
Top Left - Bodiam Castle
Top Middle - Mum and me on Hythe beach with the fishing boats and lifeboat station
Top Right - Mum and me by a fishing boat
Centre Left - me, Stephen, Susanna and Pip (the dog). I'm the cute little one on the left.
Centre Middle - Me
Centre Right - Susanna heading out to the Saltwood path (we lived in Hythe near Saltwood castle)
Bottom - Amazing car transporter plane (Bristol Type 170 Series 32 Superfreighter) at Lydd Airport (left) and 'somewhere in France' Le Touquet Airport

May have another go at getting better quality results and post online.

Update - I've put the first attempt here

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