Thanks to Tim for coming back

Welcome, my friend, you been missed

Very good to see you, my friend!

A warm welcome back Tim. You have been missed.

Thank you Vidar. I've missed the communication with you. I feel good about returning with some recent changes that have been made. ;-) I am looking forward to sharing some films bought in recent months. Both 8 and 16mm. :-)

Look forward to that. Really happy to see you here again. Gregs Iron hand will keep it good I think

Welcome back my friend, to the show that never ends. Looking forward to seeing your posts.😊

Welcome back, Tim! Great to see you back on the forum!

Welcome back Tim,hopefully a few more will return,I'm looking forward to posting again and have a few films to go through that I recently bought,screenshots coming soon,Mark

I anticipate your screenshots Mark! I am not fussy either. Red prints, scratched prints, worn prints, perfect prints...it's all beautiful to me! :-)

Welcome back Tim glad you are back.

Welcome back Tim; been trying to get you to return for some time, but that wasn't possible until today. Really great to see you back as part of the old team. I will look forward to hearing about your news, and especially the 16mm, as I don't remember you were into that guage when I was last here.

Oh yes Robert! I have been collecting both silent and sound 16mm! I love handling the larger reels and running the older machines! :-)

Same here Tim. I watch it more than Super 8. Also I don't mind red / faded prints. You get used to it and concentrate on the action on screen. Even a print with an emulsion scratch is better than never having the title.

Oh man! My fat fingers hit Flop! Was off course Top. Can't correct it.

It do not toggle like Top?

Nope. I am afraid not.

And Top not working?

No it does not :-( Didn't use to be like this. Clicking with a small phone screen it is dangerously easy to hit Flop.

Don’t be offended, I Flop your message to test, no ill meaning ;-)

I am BLIND! There is a "remove rating" link. Got it fixed now. Sorry to off track the subject.

Click remove rating after the flop

Back to the subject: I too don't mind red and scratched prints. I use gel filters sometimes on very red films, of which I have several. Scratched prints is a bit more annoying, but it has to be very much before I have real troubles with them, Much can be fixed with FilmGuard as well.

I have mostly one thing that bothers me, splices that remove dialogue or destroy an important scene, otherwise mostly okay with me. Have a Harold Lloyd 200’ From Safety Last, that is also quite annoying as the faces are white blobs, no detail, so guess that is how B&W fades?

I did like Tim and started with 8mm and went to 16mm as well. Because of space issues, I mostly look for 8 now, but I agree with the feeling of the larger gauge and projectors. 35 is beyond my reach though.

I ruined one of my first Tom and Jerry's. Spliced it but is missing a second. Bothers me every time I watch it. Much worse than a scratch.

For me, the worse kind of damage are emulsion scratches. I have one or two that are red with a heavy emulsion scratch, not a fine line. But I've got used to them. They might be the only way that I will ever own this particular title, or at an affordable price. The alternative is just the disc, which wouldn't give me so much pleasure. I some cases I have both; so i can watch the perfect image if I want to.