Andries Molenaar

Even once per year. Complete nonsense. Do really think people would bring in their camera every year? Nobody buys a consumercamera of equivalent Euro 2000 and then still be required to spend a 400-500 on a yearly lube-job. The maintenace guys who laugh their balls off! The would 1000-s of employees just to handle the cameras coming in and going out. Do you have an idea how many of these there were manufactured? Nizos were designed to be maintenance free. An that is it. The only things that fail are electronics, glued parts or rubber drive belts on the thousand series. Never the gears. Is anybody lubing the electronics?

The vaseline is for the glasspane with the compendium. Not for the interior of the camera. These Nizos are maintenance free. There is no place for lubricating anything. The squeeking comes from the micro drive belts. Don't play around with these. If you break them you are fcuked. :) Finding replacements and getting them in place will be very difficult. The only thing I could imagine is to rinse the belts insutu using natural soap. But you need to keep and make the camera dry before you put in batteries!

The article is old and from july. What McCurry says or a journalist writes has little legal value. Most important is what they have on their own website as public statement. Far better would be if Kodak and Dwayne's would extend the deadline. As there are still zillions of frames of Kodachrome to expose. Which can be a chore if you are not working a daytime job. Who do we need to pester at Kodak? Any clues?

Why are you fulminating about a product you don't want and are not using? Polaroid is no longer a consumer product although shooting it at occasions gives still very good reactions and makes it worth the costs. The Impossible project are evolving their products and the latest BW film gives really nice pictures which look a lot like AZO prints. A reason alone to start with this material! Soon they will have Pak 100 again and apparently big polaroid (8x10 and 20x24) is in the works too. I read somewhere that Polaroid is starting up again the production for Izone or something of that kind. So your wishes are heard. Prices will likely be more affordable. Considering the new S8 camera. It would be difficult to get anything going and sales are likely limited to a few 100. If at all. Somebody ought to start a business and offer refurbish top cameras of the past. I.e. Leicina special, Canon 1014, Nikon R10. Beauliexes Oh, that is allready happening :) Some even charge half the value of car for them. These Agfa Movexooms are really nice too and usually have very low milage. Their housing is very well sealed so little suffering of the environment (cellars, attics, cupboard etc)

Just be glad the film stays in the repertoire. Why so complicated? A splitter will cost like 5-10 Euro and you can send your film anywhere with a top machine The perfs on DS-8 are much smaller then 16mm ones. Do spirits use perfs?

Oh, got further info on a Sunday-evening. :) Wittner has two BW film types and a Fuji reversal color in DS8. They also have Ektachrome 100D in DS-8 I asked them, Wittner, how things would evolve in the future and they answer, on a Sunday-evening!, that Kodak will stop supply of small quantities (20 x 122meter) DS8 but continue to supply rolls of 610 meter which are used for S8 cartridge. Wittner will continue to purchase these long rolls and will supply customers with DS-8 on 30meter rolls. :)

Well, that should allow Wittner to keep the product in their catalog. :) They also have a Velvia in DS8. Plus two BW films. Cinevia should have their version of some Velvia in DS8 (and 16mm, S8, R8?) Seems there is now some real production of it.

So if you need a wide-angle you should find the 5.5mm Fujica or this specal 3.8 (?) . Also the UWL III from Schneider could work as you will not be shooting BW patterns too often. With such dynamic situations a wire-frame viewfinder as used underwater might do the trick. Easy to aim the camera and keep an eye out for people moving about.

ISO 100 is way too sensitive for practical use outside. So indeed you get extreme readings outdoor. Test the camera indoor. Best of course to compare with a lightmeter reading at ISO 100 shutterspeed is slow like 1/50. Don't know actual speed. Check the instruction manual.

What is the point of getting interchangeble lenses? Wide angles shorter than 6mm? These are difficult to find. The Leicina Special has only two fitting lenses. Only the zoom with EE motor. The Beaulieu has more options through the C-mount. But only the original zoom has reglomatic. If the light isn't changing you actually don't need adapting the aperture. The reglomatic can cope with changing light but not while the camera is running. It will always lag behind and if the batteries are a bit off (mid-voltage) you will notice that the control will shoot past the intended value and will need to back-up. Not very pretty on film. Run and gun at $10 per minute (ex transfer) is tricky and expensive. Better practice using something other than S8

Thanks for your comment. Glad to have you posting here :) Do you have a recommendation on the procedure and chemistry with times for processing the K40 into BW. It would be nice to do something useful with films which don't make it before dec 2010 And what with really old K40 which would process into faint pink images with K-14. Can these be used with some reduced exposure?

The striping is on the margins of the same film of 8mm. A 'wide'strip on the outside at the perf side and 'small' width on the unused margin on the unperfed side.

Unloading 200ft is a bit tricky. It is not as straightforward as it may seem. If you load the film in 50ft Kaccema or any thing else you can of course expose them. Dwayne's can process the film from the core so that you don't have to send in the cartridges. After return you can record sound on the striping. If you would load the film into sound S8 cartridges you can use the striping for recording. Considering that there are considerable offerings of S8 sound cartridges you may be better off selling the 200ft as such. Or get yourself a 200ft enabled camera and shoot the film yourself. There are some 15 models of 200ft cameras. Better hurry as the processing is only available until end of 2010! :)

Better check that the electrical tape is not letting through any light. In my experience it is not. :) Certainly when it has to keep light out for weeks or months on end.

That thread is ancient. The 5 year past budget with a dollar at 1-on-1 is extreme on a camera of some $200. I suppose you don't mean the last few posts there which are hardly a recommendation :) Better mention where you are maybe somebody has an better and closer idea.

you just joined to get an answer to this, which is your own doing, and get impatient too? just take the lens from macro and it will be fine. I.e. yellow distance-numbers instead of orange.

Where ever, just get a binding price quote before you send it off. Because it will be several 100-s of Euro

Isn't it stuck in a macro setting? Make sure the eyepiece is set for your eye and use the groundglass (disc in the middle) with the lens at full aperture to check if it focuses correctly. It is a low budget starter thing and this lens is hardly the lens to have with such a camera. Better find an original high-end rather than spending money like Euro 100-200 on collimating or repair. If you get it that low. Think of www.super16inc.com. even from Uk it may be attractive. And good!

Eh, anyone? Meaning want it or has tips on repair/diagnosis :) How much would shipping to Europe be? Non-express.

The batteries, 6 x AA NiCd, go in a black plastic container. This then fits in the handle of the camera. The Nizo Professinal can be operated, best on a tripod, with the handle swung back. Keeps a lower profile and the optical axis nearer to the swing point of the head. Other silvery Nizo's need an extra cable for that. You can also run the camera from a mains adapter. But then you need nearby mains :)

Some project in a public park (at night) using a real projector and a real screen. Subpage with newspaperclip So why not in a theatre?

The website has moved to http://www.super8today.net/ Don't send any money until you know you are going to get delivery. If you get any response please let the people here know. Good luck.

Why do you mark the righthand dial in the photograph instead of the lefthand one? This is making things complicated were they are not. Simply adjust the left ASA dial to fit the film. The correct value is on the box. With and without filter. The righthand dial is for Frames per second. The change of shutterspeed is automatically taken in account.

Well, his luck is certainly pushed a lot. What is is the point of storing film unprocessed for 13 years? I suppose his recollection of what is on them is a faded as the images. :) Kodachrome film stored this long with images on it usually comes out pinkish and vague/faint. So likely they rather need to pull than push.

Would be interesting to see if there is enough response. These manufacturers likely need runs of several 100pcs. Don't forget commitment from people over the Internet is only 1/100 of value compared to people with whom you shake real hands. Working from reels is likely best but in USA limits your options of material severily. Better partner up with Wittner but these are already heavily into refurbished pro8 things. Never understood that. Reputationwise it is a total mismatch. Real Super-8 of course comes in S-8 cartridges :) Better adopt an inside filmhandling scheme like in de Mekel super-8 camera. That should make for jitter and breathing free images. But is still S8 then, rhetorically. If you want a reliable machine you could use a S-8 like focallength on a 16mm camera, Frame it as S8 and in teleciné just capture the intended frame. Not my idea, read it in someone else's recommendation. You could run quite some length of film before you equal the costs of a special new camera. And for that one you would still have to purchase film :)