Andries Molenaar

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 :)

If you expect to need splitting more you could also check for LOMO splitters being offered on eBay. There a few guys from Russia or Oekraïne who have a permanent list of all kind of ciné and photo gear. Often with handling partners in USA or Wesern-Europe. With paypal :)

If it must be in driving distance I don't know of any addresses. IF USA or East-Cost is your 'region' :) then http://www.super16inc.com/ should be a good address. Good luck.

Thanks Art, Super8man to the rescue :) It is wonder how that website holds up in time. Too bad it lost it domainname. So the filter is forced out by the cartridge. The speednotch is set to 100? Just one step slower then 7240

What is notchless? No ISO notch at all? That would cause many cameras to expose incorrectly as a really low ISO :(.

Is Super-8 the format to use? The images may have some atmosphere but for are an outsider there is very little to see. You need more frame filling events. Super-8 was always recommend to the be applied in close up. It is a consumer format. For your kind of work 16mm would be better and/or you need to make things happen in the frame. That would mean get on a board/jetski and get a underwaterhousing. These exist for Beaulieu 2/4008, 6008, Bauer Aquarius C-series, Fuji for P1 and AX100. The EWA things should work too. And there are small watertight Eumig's Surfing is not a sport to enjoy watching through a telescope :)

Tricky too speculate but... This strictly means that by demand or other factors the end-date could be postponed :)

European Kodachrome ciné prepaid mailers have not been accepted for years. You need to send the films directly to Dwayne's labs before end of 2010 or use a service like Wittner's which is better if you have only 1 or 2 films. BTW Kodachrome 135 cassettes are still handled by the Swiss office and just are sent to the lab in USA

Indeed there is progress on the development. If you click the cinevia order film picture you will be taken to cinefox site which now seems to handle the selling process. Maybe ask and order there. The www.gkfilm.de site has change too. Check the recent velvia topic in this forum.