Andries Molenaar

They may use it as startpoint but they wil have to adapt current technology and expectations. Also environmental demands will force some adaptations.

The earlier version was available in Super-8. And currently is sold out at some places. Just let us be glad they think it is workable to produce Super-8 versions.

Don't splice exposed film. Labs don't want that. If it breaks in the machine they are in trouble. And so is you film and other people's film. After exposing take the film from the cartridge and reel it per piece onto a 50ft reel. Store it in a lighttight container. Thick black plastic bag and wrap it in aluminium foil. Dwayne's had done K40 super-8 clips for me and charged per feet. I even exposed S8 K40 in a MINOX and 16mm in a Rollei 16. I enquired with Andec and they do processing from a reel too. I suppose Wittner will do so too as they offer processing for meterware and Kaccema refills. Other labs should be asked per person. Hand processing labs like super-8.nl or nanolab could possibly fit two 25ft clips onto one LOMO reel. Although a splice which is not smooth may hamper loading the reel. Personally I would use two decks and avoid the hassle. Or use the smaller LOMO for R8 which can hold S8 too.

Well, that is indeed a much underappreciated camera! Considering OP Film type is a choice. Projectable or not and such. Unless you live nearby a lab/reseller film is to be had through mailorder. Getting from abroad can be annoying due to shipping costs, delays and duties. The camera is a choice which much related ot budget and purpose. If the filmer wants many features and a serious looking camera you are bound for the named top of the list. When a laid back style with less carry-weight is wanted a smaller Nizo model will work and still have enough feature. The Movexoom are nice too then. As most film ends up digital only features are important which can not be replicated in editing. Frame rate, exposure, optics and image stablity are important. Faders or backward filming are of little use these days. Don't overpay for cameras who are 'overhauled' or serviced and cost less then an overhaul would cost. These are only dry tested and found good to go. Filmtested is very unlikely. Speculation is then that it will last past a garantee period and that it will exposed correctly.

With the reglomatic it was even heavier. And that assembly was designed to suit a 4008. What is the problem? Only the base looks small but it is not smaller as before.

They didn't sell enough? The factory striping was pasted on. It is not tape but rather the magnetizable-emulsion itself. Which of course is permanent under all circumstances. Mechanic or chemical duress

Wittner has a full assortment. And FFR sells all too.

Nice that they set up this service. This 1998 theory is a bit of nonsense. It is just mystification to make potential buyers insecure. And how could buyers check? They repack the things. There was no change in manufacturing processes so 1997 is just as good. These may ver well have been cut from the same batch of master rolls from the Kodak storage house. While K14 color processing was available until december 2010 people were just as glad to shoot rolls from 1990 as those from the very last runs. Nobody could tell them apart. How could they as amateurs.

Some professors prefer to stay off the Internet-forums and social-media and they only have cell-phone with telephone function. Otherwise they never get anything done. Maybe that is wisdom many can take lesson from. And stay away from people who claim the wind blows because the trees move.

It is oscillating up en down, like in a Beaulieu 4008/6000.

Stop this misleading information. It is not macro. It simply does not produce a sharp image at all.

Consider the New camera thread closed. Lasse will need to start another when posting news on the New one :) The rest has become an attempt to educate a newbee on emulsion-filmcutting and then on the basics of the meaning of long establised terms in photography and optics.

Pythagoras was way ahead of his time :) It is simply the diagonal of the rectangle of the image. Works when it is not too panoramic.

It is unexposed super-8 film on the table. Odd while this belongs in a cassette and there is no purpose in yanking it out as this ruins it. The camera is a Canon Scoopic. Likely for Super-8

Many CS lenses don't produce sharp images at all on a C-mount. The focal plane will never be on the film due to a retro lens and a back focus plane which is in a fixed position. I.e. rotating the focusring doesn't alter the position of the rear lens. It only adjust the front and/or inner lenses.

Or assemble a wireframe viewfinder as accessoiry :)

Added as the post locked out editing... Businesswise you are best off when you could manufacturer a number for rentals and then batches of 5-10 or even on demand. Although people wanting one at Euro 4999 may not want to have to wait long :)

Thanks for the explanation. The shutter, claw, registerpin are all classic mechanical? Or was a new method applied with an electrical optical hole reader, advancer motor, register-pin and shutter actuator? If that could work. The electronics are on a low power ITX board? The heater is a bit of joke-reference to the Mekel SP-1 which has a heater. As this Mekel is more a lab or research machine it might wind up outside in winter and I suppose they wanted to keep the film warm and flexible. Although the heater is only near the loops and it cannot possibly heat the film when it flies by.

The widened Super-8 has been around long before someone started calling it Max8 and claiming it as an 'invention'.

Nice to to see such a piece of work. No yapping but doing something rather then what most do who demand/expect new cameras. Considering the compactness of the frontpanel I wonder how you designed and assembled the beam-splitter, the claw (is there one?) and the shutter. Is this a disc or small panel? And how does it know what it is filming (parking) and what distance that has? As the lens is manual focus and exposure. And is there a film heater like in the VIC Mekel SP-1 :)

Hardly a worthy swap. A Euro 7000 Beaulieu camera for a Leicina set of barely Euro 300

Kahl doesn't want to sell (at all) to end-users and certainly don't want anybody on the phone anymore. How did you get through (and why would you want to).

The R8 takes a button cell for the lightmeter. Check the housing. The battery tester should indicate if it has power. R8 R10 are notories for stuck EE systems. I.e. the actuator lands in hard grease and cannot untangle itself. You can hear the thing humming then :( Connecting an external powersource isn't that easy as plugging a cable. You need to supply 0, 4.5 and 9 volt to the pads in the grip roof where the clips touches them... Testing is recommended!

The Wittner cartridge is actually a standard Kodak factory cartridge. If you buy a box you too can get them from Kodak. The core is a plastic ring which sits at the centre of the supply roll to make it easier to handle and to prevent it from locking itself onto the hub and then render the remainder unusable. Don't go without it.

It looks nice and it is interesting. Possibly you can lay a hand on some of the content from Schmalfilm? They have taken the site off-line just like that.