Andries Molenaar

Lab set-ups et cetera?

Tak has always been sloppy in responding.
Supposedly he keeps up facebook but he simply doesn't>
He doesn't seem to give a sheit about international business.
In the past I would just send fuji singel-8 film with a banknote and that would come back at an amazing speed 🙂

I would think that it was posted here and copied there,
of course poster didn't actually test all these lenses 🙂

The Bauer s715xl only has one lens, the 1.2
The 1.4 sits on the equivalent Porst 1500. I.e. as OEM supplied to the chain of 100-s of shops at the time.
I would expect that that is the same lens but limited in apperture to open only to 1.4 🙂 
Angénieux did'nt start a special production of lesser glass or smaller diameter.

In al the R10 will produce the sharpest images as it has the better lens and film handling using the mini ramps and wood-pecker like stop pins which keep the film still during exposure. Important.  The Leicina space age gate meterial is a myth. And it is a die-hard misunderstanding to think that the film is in contact with the camera-gate or cartridge plate. 

Good luck with them.
Better find a fleamarket cartridge and use that.

In the video it is stated as being an experimental design. Paint is not going to do it.

In USA cartridges may not be so numerous, In Europe there are far more. Especially in Fuji countries like Netherlands and Germany. 

It is a research thing and not working. It is obviously not light tight  from the backside.

Refilling early originals beats using these. Certainly the originals are made to specs and are light tight at all moments

Check if it can be transported by the camera. I.e. not locked.
Put a markt on the film and see it moves away with a brief shot in camera.

4 minutes ago, Simon Wyss said:

Have you ever seen Super-8 camera reversal originals projected? That can have quite good steadiness. I project 8 mm films five feet wide. The only unsteadiness comes from the camera not being placed on a tripod. Everything exposed cam on sticks is steady.

People want easy filming to become next Spielberg.
Dedication is not so strong that they will carry and use tripod ?

2 minutes ago, Jon O'Brien said:

All fixed now. I used the stabilizer function in Davinci Resolve. I'm happy with the results. First few shots are from a Canon 310XL and the clip finishes with a Bell & Howell 670XL. It's just rough test footage to get a feel for how the cameras shoot. The footage was scanned at HD and next time I might try a 4K scan to get a slightly crisper look.

 

Good to have usable images.

That is however not really fixing it ?  The scanning shoudl adopt another strategy for locating the frames.

10 hours ago, Jon O'Brien said:

I've recently done some film tests with four Super 8 cameras: Beaulieu 4008, Canon

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Compared to Tyler's footage, posted above, my footage has a slower, more uniform movement of the frame up and down.

Many scanner setups align the frames using the perforations. This was never meant to be used like that. First of all the perf of a frame is three frames down the strip. 
There is variation in the perf's position and thus the images will become shaky when the perfs are aligned perfectly.  It easy to observe these days as so many publish super-8 with overscan to impress the audience with their good taste and money spent ?
It were best to align on a mark at the edge or a corner of a frame. The VIC scientific camera exposed a small dot near the edge to allow measurements with a fixed reference point.

4 hours ago, Joerg Polzfusz said:

I’m not talking about a „super 8“ group. I am talking about the official „filmshooting“ group: https://m.facebook.com/filmshooting

Very dynamic with a most recent post from 2020. The super8.nl 20th anniversary ?

1 hour ago, Joerg Polzfusz said:

Hi!

While his forum was down for a „short maintenance“ (actually nearly one year), he created a group on facebook as an alternative. So he still might have an active facebook account. Good luck!

Jörg

It seems a/the super-8 group on facebook has a large membership. Andreas posted there a number of times. So he must have an account. It is not his group.

6 minutes ago, Tyler Purcell said:

I don't believe ORWO has any intentions on doing much besides releasing what they have in small batches. 

They are a manufacturer and this a new product. It is not an old recut stock from elsewhere.
Having a lower ISO like 100 or 200 should really be an enrichment of their portfolio. And our EU film industry.

Don't open it. It is just too much intrusion.
Just give it a power-supply through the DIN plug at the rear where the grip connects.

Any chance of lower ISO ORWO film?

Well, that looks beautiful.   
Well done, a lot of detailed labor which pays off!

Likely it has a trimmer to set the speed properly. The question is if the 24 fps is in reach of the trimmer. Otherwise things get more difficult. When opening this camera isn't enough difficulty ? .   Other cameras have been modified from 18 to 24 fps simply by adjusting the speed-regulator. No need to swap the motor or to soup up the power of the batteries ? 

This happens rather often with these Silvery Nizo. Some components detoriate in the trigger/run circuit, likely a electrolyte capacitor.  A trick is to set to single frame and have on a intervalometer (or manual) and have it triggered for several hunderd frames. Somehow this will revive the component. 

Really nice images. And purposeful ?  

I am using my cartridges from stock. Mostly. How real are these troubles with today Kodak cartridges? Haven't they found the problem yet and resolved it?

The cause of super-8 jitter is either the cartridge is feeding to difficult or the pick-up drive of the camera has its friction too tight. Or are there other causes?

1 minute ago, Uli Meyer said:

There is lots of Super 8 footage being shot for fashion adverts and promos. I've seen quite a few on Instagram, they love that Super 8 look. It would be interesting to hear from a big lab how much Super 8 footage they handle. You may be surprised.

I rented out an Nikon R10 for that once. Incredible footage from that machine when using proper film and skilled people in a studio.   No need to find another camera. 

3 hours ago, Heikki Repo said:

One very important thing to notice: this camera is not intended for poor owner-operators, who want to shoot a cheap film format. This is for rentals companies who have customers with deep pockets and who want to have reliable tools for shooting the next music video for an A-list 

Really? Poor?

13 minutes ago, Doug Palmer said:

I won't be buying one myself (not so much into S8 now) but I don't think the price is exorbitant, if it's as they describe.  I can remember paying at least that... in today's money.... for a new Beaulieu.  If it really is a new design of pin-regn. movement that surely makes it  superior.  However, the problem with super-8 now,  seems to be its high running cost.

If the Beaulieu cost like 200 film equivalents. The new camera could be considered cheap as it costs 100 film equivalent. Or possibly film is just as affordable.

Here and there they may be a professional filmer with plenty budget but this is going nowhere.

Likely they are not going to sell more than from the earlier Logmar which only sold out the beta-serie and only after a long time.

BTW NATO is into setting standards for grip equipment?