Andries Molenaar

There is nothing wrong with the image. It comes from 4x5 mm! Mind the wires high across the street. This filter nonsens theoretically only comes into play when shooting from tripod at max wide aperture. Don't bother with it it is only theory. Most people shoot super-8 handheld and modern film is always way too sensitive, aperture is more likely F11 rather than F1.4 Don't bother with collimating your lens or having a hair of thickness removed from you C-mount. Should you persist, refitting gel filters is the cheapest, gel filters for UV or 85 are easy to find. You would need at best some 6x5mm of it.

I have my stall at Internationale Fotobörse Photofair in der Stadthalle Köln Mülheim will be selling some super-8 gear and MINOX on display Große Foto- und Fotografikabörse während der PHOTOKINA Sunday 25th / Sonntag 25. SEPTEMBER 2016 Much appreciated photofair restarted at the well known address and in the closing Photokina weekend. Easy to combine visits as it is only three stops by public transport S-bahn. Visit the Kina during the week, Saturday and attend photofair on Sunday. Of course all on one day is possible too. First to the photofair and spend the rest of the day at Kina. As always there will be plenty gear and materials of all sorts for sale. And at really good prices. http://www.fotoboerse-in-der-stadthalle.de/indexen.htm JAN-WELLEM-STRASSE 2 am Wiener Platz 51065 Köln-Mülheim Deutschland

In general it has long been recommended to idle transport the film enough length such that the film which was in the sharp bend in the cartridge. I.e. half the height and the depth to the rear, some 15 centimeters. When the film had been left standing still long enough the film would adopt a strong curve/bump around the sharp bend and go out off focus when this bump would be exposed at the gate position.

You have no idea about the cameras involved. The sought cameras aren't available like breadcrums. People who expect to have a proper working Canon 1014xls, Beaulieu 4008, 6008 or Nikon R10 at a price of an average consumer thing of the early 80-ies which you may find at a recycle-shop aren't properly informed.

The oddity, even today, is that people seem to adapt to use-film prices of $20 per minute but want their cameras to run these films through at fleamarket prices. I.e. half the price of a single super-8 cartridge. Professionals are more sensible and don't want or cannot risk winding up with nothing properly exposed. The question is indeed 'will people start buying these Kodak camera en-masse or will they defer to the classic full featured super-8 camera'?

Scrapping the lot is bluff. The problem seems more Wittner is driving itself out off business. It is a compact market and this high and higher price policy it going to bite itself in the tail. The looming revival of fresh supplies from Kodak possibly is a factor in breaking this camels back too.

For quite some time a resilient seller was offering these at $200 on eBay :) I have a number of these 200ft cartridges. Good for showpiece or experimental works with the Kodachrome/Ektachrome film or the cartridge. These things be modified to be refilled. The problem is the price of film and the labour which needs to go in :( PM-ed you too.

Should work but pistolgrips make it hard as the optical axis is then way from the baseplate. Best would be to use a Beaulieu 6008 with a leveling block, Leicina Special or Fujica ZC1000. Or a short grip like a Beaulieu 4008 with a leveling block.

Transfer is one of the most popular topics here :)

BTW curious these days how many LOMO UPB1 there are available on eBay. Used to be one or two. Now there are over ten.

Her you have a nice setup with spirals :) Too bad these only take 10 meters.

Foma materials (film & paper etcetera) are best bought from http://www.fomafoto.com (secret tip, no VAT on small shipments when these slip through customs or when the value is below treshold :) or Foma themselves http://fomaobchod.cz/ (unfortunately limited selection of countries servicable :) ) Most economical is to expose 30 meter rolls (N8 or DS-8) and when possible process DIY. The trouble is of course that it may take a while to get a roll fully exposed :)

Seems they had their reservation in on time. Here you have a silvery Kodak S-8 neomatic being used as a prop (I assume/hope) about at 25seconds :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ManM-7kis Or is poor shaky imagery as mass produced using smartphone the new norm? :(

Check here: http://super8man.filmshooting.com/super8_10.html

Maybe ask the seller???

We can safely assume that the Kodak will now turn into likeness of a Leicina Special. Just wondering... How many S8 films have you exposed in all the years which you were absent from this forum or even before that? BTW (ONly) Your posts are much too wide for the width of this forum. I.e. some 3 times the width on a 16:9 monitor.

Well that behaviour of the stewardess is a breach of protocol and security. The lead bags only give reason to turn up the heat. Don't expect that the will let such a dark shadow pass. Anything can and eventually will be in it.

Average people younger than 30 have no idea what photographic film is and how it is packed. If they jump up at a rubbery shadow of dustblower then what will happen when they see the row of shadows of the metal 135 cartridges?

Of course they take it with them to x-ray it elsewhere. They are not crazy.

Contrary to popular belief letters and parcels are NOT routinely x-ray-ed. I would also assume the gamma-ray-ing because bio-active risks has long been postponed. Only on suspicion of contrabande parcels may be singled-out.

That is not supposed how it should go. What you describe is sloppy security checking. Everything goes through an x-ray scanner when procedures are applied properly. Expecting to have a number of rather big super-8 boxes with sealed cartridges go outside any see-through is naïve.

The LOMO UPB-1A needs 600ml for the lower spiral to cover with one super-8. It needs some 1000ml to cover two spirals with super-8. With the proper parts extra it could even hold three spirals with another 400ml to top it :) 600 ml comes nicely from two doses from the Fomapan Rev kit. Or a Tetenal E6 kit.

The film boxes will be scanned themselves. It is laughable to expect they would not be. Considering the size anything can be in them and no risk will be accepted. 50D is low sensitive and a few scans going out and in will cause no harm when going through modern x-ray scanners. There are plenty threads here and on other fora about going through x-ray scans. Lots of myths and few facts.

A number of well known labs with appraised results work using spiral tanks and handling a very limited number of films per run. This can all be done DIY too. With proper equipment temperature keeping is no problem at all and using strict procedures and timing is also no problem for people with the proper character. People use bucket, hose, small tank processing or whatever on artistic purpose and sure enough these don't count as representative for DIY processing :)

Well the Angénieux can be found on Bauer 715xl or its rebranded Porst 1500 :) Somebody ought to find a way to take these lenses off and fit them on a C-mount or even a Leicina Special M-mount :) Or the same for the R10 optics which are know as the very best Super-8 lens. Aperture control becomes a bit of a problem/challange.