Weir's Way: Inchcailloch

[@Flurb_Xray]

Thank you very much for this upload. Perfect preparation for my walk on the West Highland Way next week. I decided to take a step a side made reservation for one camp night on Inchcailloch. Looking forward to it.

[@GasmetersWay]

Have fun 👍

[@emiscand]

Love watching Tom. After all this time he's still authentic and true. Just a man that loved Scotland. 😊

[@bikeboy6674]

Thanks for putting these up on yt. An absolute joy to watch. My partner and our son and I walked up a windy Conic Hill today and were looking down upon Inchcailleach and the wider Loch Lomond archipelago - a beautiful sight indeed!

[@jatlarge6354]

I’m very impressed with Dr. Boyd. Like anyone of his kind worth their salt, he knows his stuff to the max and is extremely engaging with it. When he says Loch Lomond must be forever, I agree completely!

[@stevensteven2663]

Beautiful island, camped many a time. Happy days. 😁😁

[@dougiemilnephotography756]

Excellent and informative, but a shame about the picture quality - it has obviously been copied a few times, and this is two or three generations down. I wonder if STV still have the original film that this and the rest of Weir's Way was shot on. It would be nice to see these restored and rereleased.

[@GasmetersWay]

It's only available on DVD hence the quality I'm afraid. Remember, it's well over 40 years old this series and when displayed on modern telly's it really shows up its imperfections.

[@dougiemilnephotography756]

@@GasmetersWay indeed. Which is why I'm wondering about the availability of the original footage. A lot of modern releases of archive footage go back to the original, first generation filmstock if it is available, and recreate any graphics or text that was overlaid on it. Because when that happened back in the day, it meant copying from the original film to a new one, dropping down a generation and subsequently losing quality. They would copy again once all of the pieces of film had been edited together - they were literally held together with sticky tape, so copying to a new film meant they had a version which didn't risk falling apart on broadcast. This one looks like it has been through the telecine (film copying machine) a few times (editing, graphics, maybe a safety copy). By recreating all of that digitally from original first generation film, they would do justice to the work of Tom Weir and the camera crew that he worked with.

[@GasmetersWay]

Agreed. As you say that if they had digitised from first generation or master they would be no more degeneration preserving it as it was intended. I suppose we are lucky to have it available to view at all. Its just a pity they couldn't do a restoration but I think you need original film stock not copy's of copy's for that to be viable.

[@jatlarge6354]

@@GasmetersWay I agree too, but this is perfectly fine to me.