Luigi Castellitto Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 Someone has a photo of the reel/coil in which the Fomapan R100 2x8 30.5m (100ft) is usually contained? I can't find it at home anymore, I don't remember how it's made, I needed it for a project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Haney Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 It’s called a “100 foot 16mm daylight spool”. I just checked and there’s some on eBay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andries Molenaar Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 It is a standard 30 meter camera spool. What is the trouble? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Castellitto Posted April 10, 2019 Author Share Posted April 10, 2019 (edited) Roger and Andries, it's 2x8, it should have a round hole compared to those for 16mm camera. Or not? I used it one year ago on the Bolex H8, which certainly doesn't have a square pinion. Or it have a hole with some adapters? I don't remember. Edited April 10, 2019 by Luigi Castellitto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Haney Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 There is a 25ft regular8mm spool on eBay for $7.95. I really don’t think there is a difference between 100 foot 16mm and regular8mm daylight spools. I shot regular 8mm reversal and did not have it split; had it returned on a 16mm spool and was able to project it on a 16mm projector. I’m thinking they’re the same spool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Castellitto Posted April 11, 2019 Author Share Posted April 11, 2019 I'll explain. More than a year ago, I shot a film with this emulsion and lenght of film, and with a Bolex H8 Rex4. The Bolex H8 Rex4 has round shafts, in fact I have 2 original Bolex daylight spools which are like this in photo attachment, with round holes (the photo is mine): If you try to use a daylight spool with a square hole (like for 16mm cameras) on the Bolex H8, it enter, but it's unstable, vibrates. Now there's the part I don't remember, and there are two possibilities: 1) I place directly the Fomapan R100 2x8 100ft daylight spool (in this case spool had a round hole or an adapter), it fit well, and the film passed on the take-up spool that I showed in the picture. Being Double 8, then I shoted the other half of film. OK. 2) As the Fomapan R100 2x8 100ft daylight spool had the square hole, I wrapped up the film on the spool in the photo (in the dark, of course), and used it for feed spool. And I used another daylight spool with a round hole that I have, equal to the other in photo, for take-up spool. Again, obviously, then I shoted the other side. OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Haney Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 Well, I have a specially modified Bolex that shoots a 2.8-1 image on 2x8mm film; it's not split and I show it on a specially modified 2.8-1 16mm projector. I get my unsplit 2x8mm film back from the lab on the original daylight spool; which is a 100 foot 2x8mm daylight spool. It does have square spindle holes in the spool. I don't know why yours has round spindles/holes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Simon Wyss Posted April 11, 2019 Premium Member Share Posted April 11, 2019 A reel pity that Foma Bohemia don’t use correct spools. ISO 1020 defines the 25, 50, and 100-ft. sizes. They should all have three- and four-splined openings. The GIC 8 takes 50-ft. spools for example. https://www.filmvorfuehrer.de/topic/27598-der-chic-der-gic/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Haney Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 I just looked at a Bolex H-8 online and they do have round camera spindles. A friend of mine borrowed my Bolex UltraPan 8 Camera; so I can't look at it. The daylight spool that I shot that 2x8mm Cinechrome does have square holes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Haney Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 Also there are daylight spools; with round spindle holes; on eBay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Castellitto Posted April 11, 2019 Author Share Posted April 11, 2019 Roger, I have seen square spindles only on Bolex H8 modified for DS8. But perhaps also other modified H8 have them, who knows, I can't tell you precisely. Remains the mystery as what daylight spools Foma using for its R100 2x8 of 100ft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Castellitto Posted April 11, 2019 Author Share Posted April 11, 2019 Simon, the 50 ft would be useful, but alternatively you can buy a 100ft one and rewond on GIC spools. But it's not very comfortable... I seem to see that even the GIC has round spindles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Simon Wyss Posted April 11, 2019 Premium Member Share Posted April 11, 2019 Yes, because it’s a Double-Eight film camera. Spool spindles with square lugs are normal with 16-mm. and 35-mm. film equipment. The Double-Super 8 conversion comprised push-on square-to-round spindle adapters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Castellitto Posted April 12, 2019 Author Share Posted April 12, 2019 Simon, what other Double 8 cameras have the possibility of 50ft and up (100ft, etc.)? Including those that use external magazines. However I think I have found the Fomapan 100 2x8 spool: it' with square hole, so I must have done the first pass on a round hole spool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andries Molenaar Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 (edited) The Elmo Trifilmatic 300 DS-8 100ft has square hub-pins and Foma supplies DS-8 100 ft on spools with square holes. The Elmo 8-TL has round pins with a knob in its 100ft magazine. The Elmo 100ft spool has square holes. Edited April 12, 2019 by Andries Molenaar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Castellitto Posted April 13, 2019 Author Share Posted April 13, 2019 (edited) Elmo 8-TL was very interesting, I didn't know it. The Trifilmatic yes, of course, particular machine. I see in some photos of 8-TL, it has proper round spindles, with a knob to close the spool on site, but I can't see the specific Elmo spools out of the camera. However, I imagine that Fomapan also provides the 2x8 of 100ft lenght to allow cuts and uses also in smaller cameras without 100ft feature, such as the classic daylight spools that all machines have. Edited April 13, 2019 by Luigi Castellitto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Haney Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Well, he needs spools with round holes; so the solution is to buy them on eBay. Lots of em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Simon Wyss Posted April 13, 2019 Premium Member Share Posted April 13, 2019 Double-Eight cameras of 50-ft. film capacity Kemco Homovie 16-8, not compatible with regular 8mm projectors, 1929-1931 GIC 8 (Groupement Industriel Cinématographique), 1949-1953 Pathé Lido 8, 1958 Fairchild Cinephonic Eight, 1960; takes 50 ft. of prestriped material, maybe 58 ft. of non-striped film Double-Eight cameras of 100-ft. film capacity Paillard-Bolex H-8, 1938-1969 Pentaflex 8 with accessory magazine, not marketed, 1959 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Baumgarten Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 The Double Super 8mm camera conversions standardized by using the same 16mm spools with square keyed shafts; adapters were made to slip over the original shafts on the BOLEX H-8 conversions and others. Actually, a piece of good quality vinyl electrical tape on the round shafts will snug up the 16mm 100ft(30.5m) spools and works quite well. This is a quick fix until you find the proper film spools. Just mark the 16mm spools so you know which side is ONE and TWO. I've used this tape method for years and it works fine. Alternatively you might be able to make or have made shaft adapters via 3D printing. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Simon Wyss Posted April 14, 2019 Premium Member Share Posted April 14, 2019 Forgot the Elmo Zoom 8 TL that takes a 100-ft. magazine on top. 1965 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Castellitto Posted April 16, 2019 Author Share Posted April 16, 2019 Thanks for the advice (and for the interesting cameras list!), the one of the adhesive tape is also very useful. Now, I have TWO 100ft daylight spools with a round hole available, so I should have no problems with my Bolex H8 However, I understood why the Fompan does not sell the R100 2x8 100ft format on a round hole spools: not all Double 8 cameras had a round hole for 100ft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Tuckfield Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 On 4/11/2019 at 5:55 AM, Luigi Castellitto said: Someone has a photo of the reel/coil in which the Fomapan R100 2x8 30.5m (100ft) is usually contained? I can't find it at home anymore, I don't remember how it's made, I needed it for a project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Simon Wyss Posted May 18, 2022 Premium Member Share Posted May 18, 2022 That’s a spool for microfilm. The standard hundred-foot spool for Double-Eight film looks like this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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