Talk:Microfilm

How many pages can one get on a standard microfilm?

It would be great if someone were to expand this page, which is barely more than a stub. It would also be interesting if someone could explain microfilm blips.

It should probably be pointed out that the image on this page is a microFICHE reader, not a microfilm reader. --Trevheg 11:54, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Reply: The image is now a microFILM reader

So storage space is listed both as an advantage and a disadvantage? Perhaps this should be clarified to say something like "less space than paper, still more than digital"? --Tagith 03:09, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

When was microfilm invented?
When was microfilm invented, and when did it come into common use? --Metropolitan90 04:37, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

Is this page accurate? I have my doubts because this page looks exactly like the microfiche page.Aceman2009 23:41, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Incomplete sentence
There seems to be a word missing from this section: "these information (called "blips") are used to create an, which is an index database" - SimonP 03:55, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Suggest merge to "Microform"
I suggest we merge this article, and "Microfilm" with "Microform." The articles are practically identical, and their differences will be more clear in comparison with eachother. --Mdresser 03:30, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

What to do
I agree with the suggestion that the page needs expansion. I can do this because thirty years ago I did a lot of work on the subject. For training I developed a total summary; I hope that I can remember it all. This is probably still relevant because microfilm is past its prime. I will start work but I hope others will help. Please can someone let me know where I should put the first draft. Responses to issues above : microform is a part of microfilm; there are many standard sizes of microfilm and microfilm images, the number per film ranges from 1 to over 5000; blips are digital ( not analogue as the article states ) codes printed onto a roll of film so that the roll within a suitably made viewer can be automatically positioned to display any frame desired; it became generally used to record engineering drawings of steam engines, I do not know the date. Reg nim 20:29, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your interest in improving the Microfilm article. You might take a look at the talk page for Microform to add your opinion on the proposed merger of this article and Microfiche.  As far as "where to put the first draft," just go ahead and edit this article as you see fit.  That's how Wikipedia works!  --Mdresser 14:42, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your support Mdresser. I cannot edit the page because I want to completely recast it and that takes more than one session. I am learning about Wiki, I suspect sandbox is the way forward.Reg nim 11:47, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Done, goodwill to all contributors. I am pleased that some detail is given on the siege of Paris, comma but, it does not hang together. I removed 40,000 images on one pidgeon as this is impossible now, let alone 1870. Microfilm itself was not available as it was fifteen years before photographic film was invented by George Eastman. Objectives were mediocre until the invention of the Tessar, 1902. At that time they used wet plates in large brass bound wooden cameras, the results were contact printed on to paper. The best that I can imagine would be that they photographed messages, reducing about 10 times; from the negs they made contact prints which were flown. Are there any contemporary reports ? Reg nim 20:28, 12 November 2006 (UTC)