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Jason M Hinkle

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  1. there seems to be one of your lenses on eBay right now with a buy-it-now price of $199, i don't know if that necessarily means anything about the value your lens, though. i found it searching for "canon tv zoom" which turns up a lot of similar lenses. if your lens is a c-mount then it can be used on old film cameras - i have an old canon c-mount which isn't particularly great, but it is a cheaper model than you have.
  2. The 100' loads come on a spool. Once you shoot it you're left with the empty spool. So that becomes your next take-up spool. On and on it goes - you only need one initial empty spool to get started. You can almost always find empty 16mm spools on ebay - search for "100' film spool". At the time I am posting this I see two listings. You want the black ones that have solid sides. It is no problem using the core as a take-up for a 100' load, however I would suggest keeping the core because it will be better for use with a 400' load if you ever decide to do that. You can also find those on ebay by searching for "16mm film core"
  3. awesome - glad to hear the camera is working. man it looks like somebody was filming in a sandstorm with that magazine!
  4. oops - meant to say "as Saul suggested"
  5. Congrats on the purchase! I fuss with my camera all the time and running without film is not a problem - I don't walk around running it all day long, of course. As Nick suggested, you should get yourself a roll of used film - you can use that to practice loading film as well so you don't goof up your good film. It helps if you have a really short amount like 25' or less so you can load, run it through, then load again (in other words you don't need to run 400' of used film just to practice re-loading) Also, i just found the cheapest price on stock here - http://www.tapesuperstore.com/kodak16mmfilm1.html - if anybody knows any better place to get stock, lemme know. I just shot some vision3 for the first time yesterday - I'm psyched to see the results.
  6. Not sure if this is helpful but I have been experimenting with some Nikon primes on my regular 16 ACL (24mm and 50mm primes). I would make sure you look through the adapter and lens in your camera before renting to make sure it will work. I got a cheap c-mount to nikon adapter on ebay and the distance of the lens is not quite right. It is causing some weirdness where I can't get anything further than 4 feet away in focus. But it takes amazing extreme close-up shots, so I may keep it for that. Or I may try to sand it down a bit to shorten it as some people have mentioned that might work. As far as the S-16 coverage, I can't say for sure but I can tell you that the 35mm lenses appear in my viewfinder to cover more of the frame than my 12-120 - I can't see any vignetting or edges at all.
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