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Complete Restoration of a Black Shadow
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<blockquote data-quote="Magnetoman" data-source="post: 127691" data-attributes="member: 2806"><p>Videos can be very entertaining, but their information content isn't the same as the written word. I've yet to see a video on a technical topic that is a substitute for written words plus photographs.</p><p></p><p>If I'm going to document this project, I want to produce something as informative as possible for someone in the future who might face restoring a Vincent themself, not as entertainment. Two rules of thumb for good non-fiction videos are that you need to shoot 10x more "film" than will be in the final video, and that editing just a rough cut takes an hour per minute of final video. Those two "rules" alone explain why I won't be documenting it on youtube.</p><p></p><p>I must say, I'm very impressed how clean Mike's hands always are in those videos. I've only skimmed through maybe a dozen of them but I have yet to see a dirty hand in any of them.</p><p></p><p>Coincidentally, I appear briefly in one of his videos, starting at 1'33" into [MEDIA=youtube]fzTsIyfGkg8[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>For what it's worth, I haven't done a lot to my Shadow over the past 29 years, but just the Kodachromes of that work that contain non-redundant information that I scanned, plus digital photos from the 21st century, make up 173 images. So, not to worry, I take a lot of photos.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magnetoman, post: 127691, member: 2806"] Videos can be very entertaining, but their information content isn't the same as the written word. I've yet to see a video on a technical topic that is a substitute for written words plus photographs. If I'm going to document this project, I want to produce something as informative as possible for someone in the future who might face restoring a Vincent themself, not as entertainment. Two rules of thumb for good non-fiction videos are that you need to shoot 10x more "film" than will be in the final video, and that editing just a rough cut takes an hour per minute of final video. Those two "rules" alone explain why I won't be documenting it on youtube. I must say, I'm very impressed how clean Mike's hands always are in those videos. I've only skimmed through maybe a dozen of them but I have yet to see a dirty hand in any of them. Coincidentally, I appear briefly in one of his videos, starting at 1'33" into [MEDIA=youtube]fzTsIyfGkg8[/MEDIA] For what it's worth, I haven't done a lot to my Shadow over the past 29 years, but just the Kodachromes of that work that contain non-redundant information that I scanned, plus digital photos from the 21st century, make up 173 images. So, not to worry, I take a lot of photos. [/QUOTE]
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