Andries Molenaar

200 feet/ 60 meter spools. Used on the Beaulieu 9008 with the SD-8 magazine. Stock available from Wittner and hopefully others.

It is mostly a demonstration of modern film and scan quality. The see-saw rocking of the image is produced by the faulty perforation by Kodak. The Logmar was equiped with a C-mount lens which is common to Beaulieu (and Leicina M-bayonet). So what of the indeed beautiful images stems solely from the Logmar?

NB the torque of the pick-up drive is no indicator of the motor condition. Its adjustment can be off so it can be strong or poor pull. To clarify a bit on this: The pick up part in the cartridge room is connected to the gears using a friction disc. This needs to be adjusted within minimum and maximum pull. Repairshop have measuring cartrdiges for that. Others may need to apply a feeling of the pull :) Too weak will result in sloppy winding or none at all. The film will possibly stop being transported as the claw cannot push so much length. Too strong will result in jitter as the continuous pull can be stronger than the friction in the cartridge film channel. The film will be yanked past the gate when the claw leaves the film to travel up again.

Always a bit bizarre how eager people are to get cameras at pocket money prices and then want to run $15 per minute film through these. But then this is the essence of Lomography too. Not start about Impossible film in Polaroid 600 cameras of $5 a piece either.

I have had an unsharp eyepiece too. Some screws had lost grip. Repair wasn't difficult. The trouble is opening the top. It does require removing the sides too. And of course shipping in and out will make a repair expensive rather quickly.

There used to exist a website of a guy who sells refurbised Nikon 8x super zoom cameras. Real work horses. I would assume he could work on these cameras too. Unfortunately I don't seem to find the website. Google is really swamped with fake content website who want to lure people using the NIKON brand and all type of camera models of the past. NB the torque of the pick-up drive is no indicator of the motor condition. Its adjustment can be off so it can be strong or poor pull.

Nizo Integral have few friends. It is a last model and productionnumbers dwindeled then. Too much plastic parts, too modern. The optics should be good and if it works there is little against using one. Mind the ISO feelers and manual functions. The 4080 is more appreciated. More solid design. The aperture driving belt can be a nuisance when it becomes slippery due to aging. Replacing them is near impossible. As are other repairs. The same for the feelers and manual control. Don't overload the voltage as warned against in the instruction book.

Pre collimated??? Clearly a demonstration what nonsens they produce. They must be laughing their balls off. There is no purpose for collimating without the actual camera connected to the lens. Also considering that Super-8 film flies through an air-channel with considerable play this collimation is heavily overrated. Considering the modern prime focus C-mount you need to be sure that they are C mount and not CS mount. Some sellers really have no idea. CS will never work.

Thus the camera is wrecked for the purpose of putting the Euro 1000 adapter in? Or are people supposed to unmount and mount the gate assembly from the camera? Don't forget about the end-film-feeler and the claw going up and down. And how are you going to adjust for different camera designs? The gates aren't the same on different models and brands. How are you going to put a grain sensation in the prime recording. Postprocessing is not authentic enough. People could then just as well shoot using a Euro 400 DSLR and crop 3:4 with some postprocess grainy look.

The focal plane is very thin. It will be very difficult and likely impossible to extend the bare sensor out so much from the pressure plate of your new cartridge that it can be in the focal plane and still be connected to the electronics. You might want to study things a bit by studying the parts of a disassembled cartridge a bit. Glue a piece of film to the pressure plate. Hold the plate against the camera gate and then think things through how to get your digital camera and its sensor at that place.

There have been so many ideas around this concept. Some as a study in design others as a serious thought. At Euro 1000 per piece this not going to happen. As the idea now seems to be that the S8 camera must run with the cartridge door open for the wires to connect to the contacts one might just as well attempt to create an adapter which will allow a smartphone camera to film the image of the Super-8 camera. It needs a groundglass to project the image on or possibly a block of fibreoptics. Possibly with a 45 degree positioned surface-mirror Then likely the camera will need a close-up lens to focus on the projected image. And of course there must be a holder for the smartphone. The camera needs to film when the camera is running and it needs sync pulses from the camera to find the frames of interest. A software package needs to be developed. Any takers :)

He is alive and well. Operating the webshop as ever. What can possibly be the trouble with email as I get answer in a day. Telephone should work just as well.

I would rather think he just names a coolsounding expertise suggesting top optics brand :) Or is briefly mistaken.

The unmodified 4008 runs of a NiCd set of six cells. There is a connect on 0 volt, 3.6 and 7.2 From the photo it appears they used a locking DIN plug. Possibly the standard thing like on the Beaulieu battery block so it could run from a standard external pack.

Interesting. Which NIZO has a Zeiss lens?

Willard Engineering is hardly an option considering earlier discussions. The trouble with these cameras is that opening them too easily wrecks the leatherettes. So after repair it will not look as pristine as it was :( Which can lead to unhappy customers. Parts are a problem too and some problems aren't so easily resolved. Some mechanics are lodged deep inside. Some of these R8/R10 run smoothly at 40 years old. Others have a sqeaky grinding noise. Lubing the cogs should help. Sometimes there is play in the needle-bearing. Maybe they feel confident: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffilm.club.ne.jp&langpair=ja|en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools Email in english is OK but response is slow at times. There was an anonymous R10 repair guy on youtube. Maybe you can locate that one.

That little bit of maintenance will cost you over Euro 400. Ex parts. If you can't blow them clean removing the filters isn't that difficult. If milling off this hair of depth on the c-mount make s difference is to be doubted considering all roughness and play in the Super-8 design. The film is not really pressed against the gate. It coasts and floats in an air channel formed by the interlocked back-plate of the cartridge and the gate with notches of the camera. Only real thick film will be kept tight in the channel. But then the camera will start to get hick-ups :(

Not for sure but likely it is an attempt at humour. Unfortunetaly too often these days such attempts go lost in electronic communications.

As if sticking a label Do not X-ray on parcels will keep them from being X-rayed. Parcels are routinely not x-rayed at all. Certainly not domestic and if x-rayed it would because it is a suspect parcel. Even next-day delivery when within reach of long-haul truck transport will be send by truck. Beside from that one or two x-ray exposures are not going to affect the film at all.

Just use the email-address or telephone number from the website.

Says who? Why do people bring up this dysinformation. As if all will be the same as twenty years ago.

You are not buying and still want it built you your wishes??? When they make the frame as big as possible they satify the desire of many purchasers and you can still use it in 3:4 ratio in any projector or in teleciné. The reverse is not true so it is only smart.

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A really nice recommendation for the Christmas days. To give away as present or to watch it yourself! I have a full PAL DVD set for sale at Euro 20. Which should be handy when you are in Europe. Saves on customs duties too. Should you be in a hurry then the site has a download facility too :) http://www.retroroadtrips.com/

Management of his website isn't a strongpoint. There are still older versions online. Best to contact through email/phone to check stocks and prices. http://www.buy8mmfilm.com/index.html