Jurgen Lossau

Thanks - if anyone would like to subscribe to the German schmalfilm, just send me a private message with your full address. 6 issues (one year) cost 73.20 Euro. The additional international shipping will be covered by the publishers. It's their thank you for the loyalty of the readers of smallformat.

Issue 6/2008 has been shipped today.

smallformat 6/2008 will be shipped in two weeks. Here are the topics: clapper THE FINAL CHAPTER Jürgen Lossau laments the end of smallformat viewer BIG MOVIES IN A SMALL CINEMA Wolfgang Nacken visits the 5th International NOMOS Small Format Awards in Hamburg viewer NEWS Out now: Kodak Vision3 500T in Super 8 my film diary TOUCH Spurgeon James tries an Ultra 16mm production my film diary SEEING BRILLIANCE Jonathan Guilbert explains his documentary about ?The Art of Hosting? my film diary THE PERPETUAL FAIRY TALE Let?s have a look at Gary McLeod and Derrick King constructing arches for their new movie my film diary THE BIOCHEMICAL BASIS OF DEPRESSION Richardson N. Leao creates a concept for a brainy movie my film diary OVER THE SWALE A film by Brian Pearce ? 50 years in the making my film diary THE WINNERS power pack MAKING CANON?S NIGHT OWL AIRWORTHY Herbert Schmelzer rebuilds the Canon 310 XL for Ektachrome 64T screening OUT OF THE BOX (15) The final curtain ? Keith Wilton and John Clancy are setting up a home cinema screening EYE TO EYE WITH THE STARS Ronald Vedrilla visits the Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show in Burbank, USA single-8 MIRACLE WEAPON WITH EARS Tak Kohyama shows a strange Single 8 camera: It?s a Sony? timelapse 100 YEARS OF COLOR FILM (2) Gert Koshofer spans a colourful arc of images out of sync SHOOTING FOR THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR The work of millions of videomakers will be lost in a few short years, says Dr. Patrick Illinger zoom MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE James Grahame explores the timeless beauty of Super 8 letters to the editor HEAVY-HEARTED Readers react to the end of smallformat ? on five pages no trailer STRANGE ?SOUND? CAMERAS Eric Archer drills holes into 8mm cameras?

Giles Perkins of www.onsuper8.org and Doug Thomas of Spectra Film & Video started a campaign to save smallformat. They are looking for new subscribers for the magazine. Here is the link: http://onsuper8.blogspot.com/2008/11/save-smallformat.html onsuper8 ://http://onsuper8.blogspot.com/2008/1....html onsuper8

Issue 5/2008 will be shipped in two weeks. Here are the topics: clapper A VIVID PHOTO WORLD Jürgen Lossau uncovers trends at the photokina world trade fair viewer HUNGARIAN MEMORY RESCUE TEAM Péter Rózsa and his 7th Szeged Super 8mm Festival viewer BLACK & WHITE IN ITALY Victor Anton chats with festival organizer Graziano Staino viewer EXCEPTIONALLY STRAIGHT Jürgen Lossau visits the straight8 screening in Berlin my film diary STRATEGY OF TRAGEDY Film brings a whimsical music video to life, says Lawrence Montemayor my film diary SKATERS IN SLOW MOTION Janne Pulkkila worked with a 16mm high speed camera interview ?I WANT TO BE UNIQUE IN THE INDUSTRY? Porn shooter Slava Siderman loves both girls and Super 8 cameras? power pack HD TRANSFER OF SUPER 8 FILM Christoph Manz discusses the technical background and image possibilities power pack MY DIGITAL ADDICTION James Grahame presents essential computer software for film post-production 16MM THE FAMOUS P-SERIES Ronald Vedrilla knows all about the Bauer 16mm projector models test LIKE NO OTHER Fuji Velvia inside the Wittnerchrome V50D Super 8 cartridge ? Jürgen Lossau tries it timelapse 100 YEARS OF COLOR FILM Gert Koshofer casts a colourful arc of images screening ALTERNATIVE CINEMA A conversation about the underground film scene: Karsten Weber (Germany) and Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt (Canada) interview each other screening OUT OF THE BOX (14) Synchronized sound ? a report by Keith Wilton, Doug Meltzer, Jean-Marc Toussaint and John Clancy zoom PEET PRINTED! A peek at Peet Gelderblom?s new cine comic book zoom DIRECTORAMA Peet Gelderblom?s cine comic trailer WHAT?S NEXT? smallformat issue no. 6*2008 will be our last issue Inside issue 6/2008 you will find a test of Kodak Vision 3 500T Super 8.

Matthew, your message box is full.

Hi Matthew, I will send you a PM.

yes, I have copies of all issues

Norbert, the question is not printed versus online - even an online version is expensive (editor, authors, layout, traffic) but nobody will pay for it - please see my other statement here. Matthew, I am not the one to decide that. the publisher's are the owners of the rights. i don't think they will do that. even this will cost money and manpower. sorry. there are also some articles and photos inside the mag where we haven't the rights for online publishing - this was always a matter of money.

Hi, thanks for the nice words. Wish I had better news... Concerning my books "Movie Projectors" and "Movie Cameras": Of course you may buy some more copies at any time on www.atollmedien.de - to have it for a Christmas present you have to hurry up because the shipping time to USA is always very long (2-5 weeks). Juergen

schmalfilm has more topics concerning the German Super 8 and 16mm scene. Less than 50% of the contents of schmalfilm and smallformat are identically. The printing costs are not the problem. The total costs are our problem. If we could fix our status quo for the next year (same amount of subscribers and advertisers), we would need another 20,000 Euro in 2009 to survive. This means 300 more subscribers or some major advertisers. Unfortunately, we could not find this support. I have to thank my publishers that they gave me the chance to try this project and that they have been willing to support the magazine with the power of their staff free of charge. Layout, marketing, shipping - this was all done free of charge with the hope that this project might get strong enough to finance itself one day and will have a balanced budget. We worked hard to achieve this aim but after 3 years I cannot promise any improvement. I am in personal contact with the editor of Super 8 Today. The situation for Chris Cottrill and his magazine isn't easier as well. He changed from six issues per year to four issues a year (which is an increase in the price of the magazine of 50%) and has to cope a lot of other problems, too (but he is the one to inform about that). We already discussed a merger before but did not get any solution.

Hi Michael, this magazine is a printed magazine. On our website we do only offer first pages of the articles. Without the printed version there is an absence of valid subject matter. The internet is not (yet) the right place to offer content which is not free of charge. Even the advertisers are not interested to invest that much money in an internet based magazine. For smallformat this won't work. Another reason is that 35% of our readers do not use the internet.

Berlin-based Fachverlag Schiele & Schön has decided to cease printing our magazine at the end of 2008, after three years of publication. smallformat ? the international journal for fans of Super 8, Single-8 and 16mm film ? was founded by editor-in-chief Jürgen Lossau in 2005. Unfortunately, the number of subscribers and advertisers in this difficult and shrinking market did not reach our expectations. Therefore, economic survival is not possible. The lack of financial support from the only remaining film manufacturer was also a deciding factor behind the publisher?s decision. smallformat has endeavored to present small gauge film topics in a high quality publication with modern design. From the arrival of the first issue in 2005, we won over many subscribers from around the world who embraced smallformat enthusiastically. The publishers and the editor-in-chief would like to warmly thank our readers for their trust and often enthusiastic reactions. We also owe a great deal to the advertisers who made this magazine possible through their continuous ad placements. We would especially like to acknowledge MWA Nova, MovieStuff, Wittner Cintec, Andec Filmtechnik, Spectra, Laboratoires Cine Dia, Nano Lab, Retro Enterprises, single8film.com, Pro8mm, Clive Tobin, onsuper8.org and filmshooting.com. smallformat will bid farewell to our readers with issue 6/2008. Editor-in-chief Jürgen Lossau would be remiss not to take this opportunity to acknowledge translator and proofreader James Grahame for his great work. The German publication schmalfilm ? which celebrated its 60th anniversary this year ? will not be impacted by the cancellation of the international edition. smallformat readers interested in schmalfilm are asked to contact our editorial staff.

smallformat 4/2008 will be shipped in two weeks. We are very happy to present a lot of great articles from our readers - submissions for the "my film diary" contest sponsored by Kodak. Another 3 examples in this issue; 6 articles will follow in the next two issues. Here are all the topics: clapper CUSTOMERS AS GUINEA PIGS? Jürgen Lossau about problems with Super 8 and 16mm film stocks my film diary NO USE Philip Evans from Dublin (Ireland) about a different visual approach to his skate videos ? using Super 8 my film diary SIXTEEN BRIGHT NIGHTS Elias Djemil from Canada describes ?one hell of an experience? my film diary THE CHAPEL WALL Pelle Koornstra was filming with his Nizo in Belgium portrait SUPER 8 IN SINGAPORE A little Asian company works with Super 8. Jürgen Lossau asked Gözde and Russell Zehnder about their experiences portrait GILES ON SUPER 8 An interview with Giles Perkins, the man behind www.onsuper8.org super-8 CANON STRIPTEASE Michael Wirthig from Austria stripped his 1014 XL-S. Have a look at a camera exposed? super-8 A REAL FIND Con Koutsomitis from Australia is exploring the Canon 1014XL-S super-8 SALVAGING SAVONAROLA Nathan Coombs from Great Britain had to rescue a Super 8 short 16mm FRENCH ELEGANCE The history of the Beaulieu R16 series, revealed by Dr. Carl-Hellmut Hoefer (part 2) test A MOUSE AMONG ELEPHANTS Jürgen Lossau takes a look at Gakken?s hand cranked S8/N8 projector power pack IT?S THE CLUTCH Terry Mester presents his solution to image jitter. Daniel Wittner of Wittner Cinetec and James Grahame answer to Terry Mester?s hypothesis the old babies LADY IN BLUE Hans-Lothar Wisskirchen takes a look at the Pentaflex 8, a Double 8 camera from the former GDR screening A MIRACLE OF COLOR AND SOUND The great documentary ?Shikashika? kidnaps viewers for a colourful trip to Peru. Jürgen Lossau talked to filmmaker Stephen Hyde (USA) screening OUT OF THE BOX (13) Comedy classics ? another episode in the history of the package movies, reported by Keith Wilton, Doug Meltzer and John Clancy forum LETTERS TO THE EDITOR about the right film stocks and about the first Santorini film festival (Greece) zoom DIRECTORAMA Peet Gelderblom?s cine comic

good idea!

Send in your Super 8 film! Click www.smallformat.de to find out more on the next NOMOS International Small Format Awards - now includes entries for 16mm users as long as they don't exceed 8 minutes! Entry forms are available at http://www.smallformat.de or directly here (http://smallformat.schiele-schoen.de/schie...als/nomos_e.pdf) and don't forget entries must be submitted by 15th October 2008.

Hi Michael, I already contacted Terry to publish his story in smallformat. It will be published in issue 4*2008.

smallformat 3*2008 will be shipped in one week. This is what you will find inside: *cover* THE BEATLES -- at a London photo dealer watching their first 8mm movie *clapper* SUMMER IS HERE -- and it offers perfect footage for everybody. There are no more excuses, says Jürgen Lossau *viewer* SUPER 8 DAY IN AUSTRALIA Rodney Bourke about some events down under *viewer* NEWS All about a real find in London and about the first Santorini Super 8 festival *viewer* 100X BERLIN When 100 projectors rattle at the same time... *my film diary* THE CRAZY WEDDING Unbelievable - Fabrizio Mosca shoots his own marriage on 16mm *my film diary* THERE MAY BE PLEASURE A diary for Christopher Wallace's short film *16mm* TO THE MAX Jürgen Lossau talked with filmmaker Max Sacker about his way up *16mm* FRENCH ELEGANCE The history of the Beaulieu R16 series, revealed by Dr. Carl-Hellmut Hoefer *portrait* RISKING A FEATURE FILM Kivmars Bowling discusses his debut, "Donovan Slacks" *time lapse* ALL YOU NEED IS 8MM Is that what the Beatles said? Jürgen Lossau digged up some interesting photos and a story from 1964 *sound* TESTING - ONE, TWO... Interesting microphone facts, collected by Oliver Kochs *power pack* WHERE FILM GOES ELECTRONIC Jürgen Lossau visited British transfer wizards Cintel *test* NO GRAIN - NO PAIN Oliver Kochs tests Kodaks's new Vision3 negative film 500T *super-8* THINK BIG Super-8 enlarged for 35mm cinema projection? Daniel Henríquez-Illic says "yes" *screening* OUT OF THE BOX (12) The history of the package movie: Piccolo Film, Büscher and UFA. A report by Andreas Eggeling, Keith Wilton and John Clancy *forum* LETTERS TO THE EDITOR about how to paint the wall to get a screen, about Pete Gelderblom's great comics and about life long subscribers *zoom* DIRECTORAMA Peet Gelderblom's cine comic Exclusively for readers of cinematography.com and as agreed with Tim Tyler, here is one article from the newest issue: No grain ? no pain smallformat tests Kodak's new Vision 3 negative film Text & Photos: Oliver Kochs Kodak?s new IS0 500 Vision3 artificial light stock promises increased latitude, finer grain and better color reproduction in mixed light situations with extreme contrast range. Kodak has already delivered such improvements with the introduction of the Vision2 series in 2003. At the moment, Kodak 5219 is the only member of the 3rd family to see the light; the others will come out of the shadows later. smallformat put this new negative film to the test and compared it to the older Vision2. In direct comparison ? with the same scene, lens and lighting ? the improved grain and contrast of the newcomer are evident. To be able to conduct the test quickly, we had to realize an unconventional film idea. A friend who inhabits a large artist?s studio was enthusiastic about the idea of shooting a ?real? film with her one-year-old daughter. However, the spacious studio was still too cold in the spring, and the highly sensitive stock allowed us to abandon the idea of heating the room with floodlights. The warmer adjoining room would suffice, and we covered the windows with black cloth to create an artificially illuminated scene in the foreground. Our lighting rig included two 100 W Dedolights, a fan-cooled 1kW Hedler Halogen for indirect lighting, along with a candle. We wanted to create a lighting situation in which it was possible to shoot the corner of the room lit only by candlelight. For the test, we used two identical Super 16 Bolex H16EL cameras with 122 m magazines and PL Mount adapters. This enabled us to quickly swap lenses between the cameras. Vision2 and 3 films were loaded into the magazines, enabling filming in synchronization or by swapping the prime lenses to capture comparable images. Exposing the test series The 25% light loss from the Bolex prism was compensated by metering a shutter angle of 135 degrees. With two 100W Dedo lights and the candle, the exposure meter reads f/2 from the grey card. In the brightest spot (the candle), an f/8 aperture is desirable, because then the image blends less into the darkness. Nevertheless, for our test we generally chose f/2, even when we later used indirect ceiling light in the form of the 1000W Hedler lamp. Indeed, these images show much lower grain in the shadows, although the composition doesn?t work well with candlelight. The actual f/4 exposure would not have altered this dull mood. For comparison, we shot our ?proud mommy with playing baby? scene with PL-Mount Zeiss T2 lenses and their suitable RX counterparts. The Bolex viewfinder turned out to be conspicuously problematic. With so little light, one can hardly see anything in the viewfinder. The additional light loss to the prism aggravates the condition. In this case, only cameras with rotary reflecting shutters can score with this image composition, although while shooting, the image will be even darker. Over and over again we manage by measuring and using additional lighting, which is a good help when arranging the scene in the viewfinder. Development and scanning Ludwig Draser from the German lab Andec Filmtechnik in Berlin handled the development and cleaned the film for scanning, which we carried out in Munich though AVP Videotransfer. We should acknowledge the friendly support from both companies when conducting this test, because Andec and AVP offered their services free of charge. Right from the start, the images from the Vision stocks looked promising on the Cintel URSA film transfer machine. The sharpness at f/2 with the Zeiss optics ? which must do without RX correction on the Bolex ? was generally satisfactory. The shots with 200W artificial light and a candle offer persuasive lighting and the Vision3 scenes exhibit slightly lower noise in the shadows. Mr. Sandl of AVP confirmed this on the URSA scanner by scaling the screen image by approximately 400 percent, which makes the grain structure clearly visible. In the RGB color extracts, particularly the blue channel, a reduction of grain is recognizable in the shadows when compared to its predecessor. However, we admittedly have to strain our eyes to see a difference. This may be valid when scanning to video, but not for projection, which sees the image increased to cover several square meters. Super 8 filmmakers may be happy about the fine grain, because Kodak has plans to manufacture the Vision3 stocks soon for Super 8 cartridges. Our tip: By all means try it out, but also remember that high speed stock like 500T should be refrigerated and used within a short time (less than two years) because fogging might occur otherwise. Scanned frames of the film stock - please see inside the article.

A short film about "100x Berlin": http://www.tvbvideo.de/video/iLyROoafYg57.html

Thanks for your hints, Olex. Well, this time we have to concentrate on the 100 Super8 projectors. It is more than enough work to fix them so that they are running for about 4 weeks. We have about 60 more projectors "on stock" to secure the whole event.

Sorry, was not able to edit the original message. Here is the correct link again: Click http://onsuper8.blogspot.com/2008/05/100-a...-in-berlin.html for the poster for full details (in English) or visit www.100xBerlin.de for more (in German).

Take more than 100 Eumig 607 and 610 projectors, put them in the 1000 sq metre cellar of a former brewery, add amateur film loops spanning every decade and major event from 1930 to now and you've got yourself the world's biggest Super 8 screening. "100x Berlin" is exactly that. Open from 2pm to 10pm daily ('til midnight on Fridays and Saturdays for screenings with musical accompaniment) at the Prenzlauer Berg Brewery from June 7th to July 6th, this incredible feat of small film screening paints a fascinating history of Berlin, from the war, the wall, the city's zoo right through to family Christmas's, 8mm has captured the ups and downs of an ever changing city. Hope to see you in Berlin! :) Click http://onsuper8.blogspot.com/2008/05/10 ... erlin.html for the poster for full details (in English) or visit www.100xBerlin.de for more (in German).

Thanks, Paul. I am a little bit surprised. I always posted the content of smallformat magazine, and sometimes some articles with it, on cinematography.com and there was no discussion about that in the last year. Chris of Super 8 Today did the same thing. This year was different, some threads have been deleted here. We also do these postings on filmshooting.com and some other European forums where the members are happy to read it. To speak about a commercial product is a little bit too much of honour. The German publishing house of smallformat (I am only a freelancer of this company) is far away from making money with a magazine for such a small community...

Here is what you will find inside smallformat 2/2008: clapper TAKE PART! WIN! Jürgen Lossau about a co-operation between Kodak Motion Picture and smallformat: My Film Diary viewer A NEW SINGLE 8 CAMERA? And other news from festivals, Wittner Cinetec, pro8mm and no.w.here lab (UK)** viewer CAMBRIDGE COMES INTO FASHION Jürgen Lossau visited the film festival near London special INGENIOUS DESIGN Have a look at instructions, brochures, posters and packaging of the last 60 years test TRAVELLING WITH KODAK'S LATEST Ole Dost made a trip to Albania -- with his Kinor movie camera and the new Kodak Vision3 500T film stock lab BUILDING WITH LUKAS Lukas Fritz from Bavaria (Germany) is just 14 years old -- and he has already built his own E6 processing machine lab PROCESSING MADE EASY Clever service from European's largest Super 8 and 16mm lab, Andec in Berlin interview CREATING MAGIC WITH SUPER 8 Jürgen Lossau talked to the mistress of cinematic poetry, Dagie Brundert. She will be Artist in Residence at the Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles portrait DAVID, KING OF ISRAEL Oron Cohen and Nathan Coombs about a Super 8 look into the Iranian Jewish community movie school WATER WORLD Con Koutsomitis describes underwater filming with easy-to-use cameras power pack SPEED CHECKER Determine if your camera or projector is running to slow or fast -- tips provided by Con Koutsomitis, James Grahame and Martin Rowek screening OUT OF THE BOX (11) The history of the package movie: Globus Film, Film Office and Mirage Films. A report by Andreas Eggeling, Jean-Marc Toussaint, John Clancy and Keith Wilton forum LETTERS TO THE EDITOR about problems with Fuji Velvia 50D in 16mm, digital competition for the chemical film and other topics zoom DIRECTORAMA Peet Gelderblom's cine comic And here is more about the competition "My Film Diary":