Summary: Extra Podcast episode where we share the 25 mins we spent talking about Royce's fascinating film and photography background. If you like the idea of getting into the weeds on aspects of how film for movies was edited, color corrected and hear about it from the perspective of a photographer who greatly enjoyed the transition from Film to Digital. Then you will enjoy this bonus excerpt about Royce Bair's professional background. Regular Podcast episode returns on Monday the 6th. NOTE: During the podcast Royce mentioned some early digital to analog film output and couldn't remember the names of the machines. They were the Solitaire and the Kodak LVT. The Solitaires were used to output digitally retouched files to 35mm slides or negatives. The cost up to $60,000 each. The cine models were used to output special computer effects for some of the Star Wars movies and other special effect movies (often done by Lucas' "Industrial Light and Magic" division). They often had up to a dozen of these film recorders going day and night to output the film for the movies (because it takes 24 frames for just one second of on screen time); http://www.promarketinc.com/pdf/mgisolitairecineiiiflx.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_recorder For larger color transparencies or color negatives, used for large printing (4x5 and 8x10), the Kodak LVT was the better film recorder technology. They cost about $170,000. https://artofplatinum.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/light-valve-technology-lvt-platinum-printing/ Back in the mid 90’s Replicolor.com, here in SLC, had 3 Solitaires and one LVT.
