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Originally Posted by ARC Tech-109
Video-8, standard VHS, Betamax and U-Matic are all about 240 to 250 horizontal lines of luma resolution and around 30 lines for color in the real world depending on how good the bandpass filters are and the luma carrier. During my early days I recall 16mm was about as good as 3/4 inch tape with a good photographer while 8mm film paralleled a single tube camera recording 6-hr VHS.
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Erm... Umatic is 3/4-inch. Do you mean 16mm as good as Umatic, which is as good - or as bad - as VHS/Beta ?
I mean, this was one of my questions in another thread to get a straight answer whether Umatic was as bad as VHS/Beta/8mm as a first generation recording. I understand that pro versions of Umatic have all kinds of pro features like Y/C connector, genlock, timecode, 1-frame accuracy, remote console, etc, but I wondered whether the sheer video quality of the first generation is kind of the same as VHS/Beta, because this is what numbers show and this is what I see on old Umatic videos.
No, Umatic does not look as good as 16mm if only because of pitiful color resolution.
As for 8-mm comparable to VHS,
here is a 1985 Super 8 processed on a DIY film scanner (YouTube video), I don't think you can get similar color resolution from VHS. There are even better examples of how Super 8 can look, but I don't want to post samples shot on a modern camera with precision electronic control and good mechanics.