Talk:Cellulose acetate film

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Are we sure this is accurate? From what I've heard, 35MM film tends to be, at most 4k, and modern film scanners can work in 4k, and some go up to 8k. "current standards do not allow for scanning at sufficient resolutions to produce a copy of the same picture and sound quality as the original." Bumblebritches57 (talk) 20:07, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Film Preservation

The references for best practices on film preservation are dated 15 years ago. The section mentions that digital transfer is insufficient to capture all of the detail on film. This could still be true, but considering that 25 and 50 megapixle imaging devices are readily available in cheap consumer electronics, its likely that it is not. A quite search of google did not turn up any definitive information. An more in depth review should be done to determine if this is still the case. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.55.54.39 (talk) 22:19, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Proposal of a new main article "Vinegar syndrome"

Most of this article is about the vinegar syndrome and dealing with it. For this reason I would like to restructure the article in this way:

• Move the three sections "Decay and the 'vinegar syndrome'", "Preservation and storage" and "Rescuing damaged film" to a new main article "Vinegar syndrome", leaving an abstract thereof here in one short section, with a link to the main article.
• Make a new section "History" from the 2nd and 3rd paragraph of the introduction.

Please let me know your opinions about that. --Peter Buch (talk) 08:31, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Full support. Also, as it is now, the article seems to be about a mix of vinegar syndrome and fungi damage. Fungi damage *CAN* be halted or even reversed by means of various alcohols that attack the fungi, but not the film itself. I have a German university research paper here that deals exactly with this topic of repairing fungi damage to film, but the problem is that it's part of an expert report on the examination of a collection of private family home movies and as such cannot be made public at the moment for privacy and copyright reasons. This research paper, however, contains footnotes referring to other publications on the repair of fungi damage on film that could, in theory, be cited by Wikipedia, but they're mostly in German as well. --2003:EF:1704:7205:843C:C673:6D28:ED99 (talk) 23:50, 11 November 2021 (UTC)