S8 Booster

Try to scan (flatbed or film scanner will normally do) a piece of the film from the bad part, colour correct and invert it and examine it. This way you may evaluate if it is film or the telecine. If you are in doubt you can compare it with a scan of your 35mm photo negatives. R

Inorrect. The WEIN cells listed above are 1.35v units - direct replacements. R

Yup that lens coating is one of a kind. :D I have tested mine against about every hyped competitor around and the best of the rest is a bleach charicature compared. Regarding the lens cap I have occationally seen some on eBay for various cams - as far as I remember also for some Canon cams. Do a world wide search. R

I do not know your model but I believe it uses separate batteries for the lightmeter. Check if you find your model here: http://filmshooting.com/manuals/canon.php download a manual and you may find it there. Those special non mercury 1.35v replacement batteries are avail from: Battery, WEIN Cell PX625 Replacement R

What is the exact model you have? E A AZ or XL-S? R

Not sure if this will solve your problem but this downloadable brochure says "Mark projectors". Free downloadable: ftp://ftp.filmshooting.com/pub/scans/eumi..._projectors.zip R

You can download some of the latest printed Bosch/BauerNizo brochures on the Nizo cams which I scanned some time back. I believe that the main difference between the 4080 & 6080 is that the 6080 can take the Kodak 60m mag. Last of all Bauer/Nizo cams brochure with 4080/6080 machinery. There is a compare table over the features. ftp://ftp.filmshooting.com/upload/brochur...R-NIZO_1982.zip Last of all Bauer Cams. ftp://ftp.filmshooting.com/upload/brochur...R%20CAMERAS.zip Last of all Bauer projectors. ftp://ftp.filmshooting.com/upload/brochures/BAUER_PROJ.zip R

Really liked that Ektachrome suggestion and Ektachromes 160T & 320T seem available if it is the same film that you described: KODAK EKTACHROME 160T Professional Film (EPT) The 160T has a technical grain of approx the same as the VNF 7240 which is good. Technical Publication KODAK EKTACHROME 320T Professional Film (EPJ) Technical Publication KODAK EKTACHROME 320T Professional Film (EPJ) R

I think Alex refers to the fact that 100D has an exposure index of ISO 25 when it is shot in tungsten light using an on cam 80A filter and wonders if it still will have an EI of ISO25 if the "T" light sources are blue gelled. Possibly the light drop over the gels equals the light drop over the cam´s 80A filter? For shooting 100D in 3000 - 3400K / tungsten light sources using an on cam 80A filter the 100D is less sensitive than K40 - EI25 vs K40´s EI40 - actually equals K40´s daylight performance of ISO25 using the 85 filter. For "T" conditions the 100D is less sensitive than the K40. R (oops - posted this simoultanesly with Alex)

Sure but that was really only a costs problem. No doubt they could have come up with an alternative or they could have used Wittner in Germany for striping the films since the K40 S8 carts are now only produced in France. Wittner has pre-striped 60m K40 spools up to now. As you know Fuji is still poststriping their Fujichrome as an option when the film is processed. Kodak could have bought the striping material - which I guess is a tape based one (& necessary machinery if need be) - from them. Others: Why can I not edit my posts anymore? Option not avail. Software update? Oh, I just noticed - it is back :) but not on the older posts :( R

You get this all wrong. In reality the question is: Who feeds whom. Kodak never hesitates to shut down whaever they can not get predictable profits from. S8 Sound film for for starters. R

More from: http://www.wittner-kinotechnik.de/neu/news.php Not excactly "Rumours". Quasi translation from Altavisa: R

Exactly, so there is no need for secretcy on these issues because the filmstocks themselves has been known for a long time. Done right the VNF 7240 was a fabolous stock an had the right characteristics being a tungsten balanced film. Allthough the 100D film surely is a nice stock it will be somewhat awkward for S8 use as the K40 surely works fine in daylight while there are no high speed "T" reversals available for tungsten jobs anymore. That is a real problem not solved by the 100D. Example on VNF7240 S8 performance: Modified frame: Click the image to see a full rez image. R

Still the new 500 & 200 were out in Europe before anyone at Kodak USA could confirm it even existed - which is correct and true and to my memory your info or comments on this was not avail before long after it was avaiable in Europe and that was well before it was released in USA. The same European sources who reported about the new 200 & 500 and showed up to be 100% relieable except for some delay in the release date now reports about the 100D. Anyway, I agree that you should be the first to know - maybe you should do some research of your own - it may be in the pre-progress evaluation somewhere within the Kodak group. Someone within Kodak have to know something about it. Otherwise this info would not have surfaced. Rumor or not. The 100D is no big deal to me personally as the K40 is the best S8 filmstock deal it is possible to get here in Europe with the processing paid / logistics included. What is a loss to me though is the discontuage of the VNF 7240. But I understand that Kodak have their resons to end it and unfortunately the 100D is not valid as a replacement for it. Anyway, I suggest you to do some 100D research within your group and possibly contact Kodak UK which most likly is the source of this "rumour". If it after all is only a rumor it is better to stop it asap. R

You may want to check this out. It is from a reliable source. We have seen recently that Kodak Officials do not know what is going on within Kodak - that is with both the Vision 2 500T & Vision 2 200T for Super8 which apparently was released in Europe before Kodak Officials in USA even "knew" it existed - for some reason. Ektachrome 100D set to arrive in Super8...... So it sounds as though the new E6 process Ektachrome 100D is on its way to us in super8 cartridges - I can't think of any other stock that fits this description. http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/16mm/pro...1.4.5.6.4&lc=en Sounds interesting. Matt R

Actually with the right gear & knowledge the S8 will look better than PRO 16mm gear with K40. Read a "shock" story from the real world: Super8 K40 vs 16mm K40 please help. R

Alex is perfectly right and there is absolutely no problem to shoot grain free K40 with the right gear and knowledge. R

Figures are not thrown around. They are from Kodak specs. How to take full advantage of film resolution is a different story but it is accessible. DV will maintain its resolution under wider range of circumstances than film for S8 but S8 is capable using some artifice. Sharpness and resolution are two different things in this context. Film has more colour resolution than DV thus carries more information per "pixel" (colour depth). DV has less colour information to handle and will look "sharper" but in reality it is edge/contrast "sharpness" due to lack of colour contrast handling and not actually higher resolution. But that is not actually the point since each frame is "sampled" exactly the same way. With film all frames are "sampled" differently and will all pick up details differently from frame to frame and the summa is an "overlaid" image with higher resolution and the difference is actually quite big. Anyway, S8 compares well and avoids hard the contrast "sharpness" and flat dead imaging which many dislikes with the DV originated material. Another important factor that seems misunderstood is that S8 in fact needs better transfer systems for blowup than bigger film formats. That is to extract more information from the film frames. This is not nessescary with big film formats - they will do anyway. Allthough not directly compareble I fancy this sample from the Audio world. shows the difference between normal 2x oversampling and MASH 168x oversampling. The point is that details hardly handled at all with 2x sampling is easy to process and reroduce with 168x. The same goes with film sampling so without doubt more is better. The point is to handle subtle neuances not accessible with systems designed for bigger film formats.. In my view the optimum film scanning system for S8 is yet to be made by a long shot. R

It is possible to shoot K40 grain free using the right gear and techique. May add that a recent test shoot of Provia F400 S8 showed grainage compareable AVR K40 when slightly overexposed. R

According to Kodak specs Super8 / K40 can resolve up to about 430 line-pairs/cycles (80 per mm film at 20% response) or approx 860 pixels (DV equivalent). With a filmstock like 50D NEG the technical available resolution is up to appox 1080 line pairs or 2160 DVpixels for a Super8 frame. (ideally up to 200 cycles per mm film) If I remember correctly the 100D technically will resolve about 540 line-pairs / 1080 DVpixels a/S8 frame if it gets available for S8. These are max ideal values and depends on more factors like lens performance/exposure etc. PAL SD DV : 720x576 pixels - NTSC SD DV: 720x480 pixels. Horisontal resolution about 500-530 line pairs. Still there is no doubt that S8 matches DV SD resolution easily because "film in motion" will give a better resolution than a single frame. Lets call it dynamic resolution. When 24 frames a second "overlaps each other" the summa "dynamic" resolution is higher than 1 frame res. Simplified; one frame/grain structure will catch details the previous one did not and so it goes on and sums up. R

Not the same camera that is a 1014 XLS. The AZ 1014E is the fore runner of the most advanced S8 camera ever made The 1014 XLS: 1014E 1014 XLS R

Not sure but you may find a free manual for download here: http://filmshooting.com/manuals/canon.php I think it is the same as the "E". More details from: http://www.kolumbus.fi/puistot/c.htm R

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Some info if of use: Swizz Reel for processed K40 Since day1: Rocky Montain Lab (USA) E160 processed reel "Euro" mailer for K40/Switzerland since Day1: R

To me it seems like the magenta cast you describe is due to a storage problem. It is typical for heated or long overdue/some heated K40. R