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Author Topic: Media splices! Carl Welles Film Handler Posts: 82 From: Cali Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-24-2000 10:03 PM                     So what's up with this media nonsense? I keep seeing SPLICES within the media. Has Kelmar decided to take a lesson from the labs and start splicing their leftover rolls together to save a buck? This is annoying and I see it quite frequently. Anyone else notice this, or am I the only one who is noticing this because I'm winding my pads over to the plastic Film-Guard cores?  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-24-2000 11:35 PM                        Well, I don't personally notice this since I don't use the Kelmar pads. I use "Filcro" pads. They are a bit thinner and smoother. But they work well. Splices in a media pad is unacceptable! Perhaps some other company should make the media pads. Hmmmmm....  |  IP: Logged Masao Garcia Film Handler Posts: 34 From: Lancaster, CA, USA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 01-25-2000 02:16 AM                     Bwahahahaha! I've never EVER noticed splices in my media rolls. That's unheard of....I didn't understand what that picture was at first. I'll keep an eye out for this in the future.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-26-2000 09:55 PM                     You'd think it'd be MORE expensive to sew the silly things together like that than to throw out the short ends!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-26-2000 11:24 PM                     You'd think, but I see it all the time myself. The problem I've got is when the pads are cut narrower than the film itself. I brought that to Kelmar's attention awhile back and since then I've seen a drastic improvement in their slitting and the splices has been cut down considerably. I have never seen a splice in the Neumade/Filcro pads.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 02-04-2000 08:51 AM                       OH-ho-ho! You've got to be kidding! How chintzy can they get?! Some guy had to sit there and stitch it together, too! That's BAD!  |  IP: Logged David Koegel Film Handler Posts: 55 From: Alexandria, VA Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-04-2000 09:47 AM                     whew! At first I thought that you were posting a newly-discovered FILM splicing technique....  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 02-04-2000 09:52 AM                        Literally a "thread" on splicing. ------------------ John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist Worldwide Technical Services, Professional Motion Imaging Eastman Kodak Company Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419 Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA Tel: 716-477-5325 Fax: 716-722-7243 E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-04-2000 10:29 AM                        I know what it is. It's a corset from the 1850's. I'll bet it was used in "Gone With the Wind" to bind Scarlet's tush. I'll bid $2.  |  IP: Logged

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