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Andries Molenaar

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  1. You could try a Zigview thing from Kaiser. Otherwise experiment with bullet-cams, webcams etc. You could also try a Coolpix camera. A model with hinged LCD of course. There are some solutions on the web. One in France for a beaulieu 4008. The Movexoom has a really nice and almost high-eye-point viewfinder. Almost as good as a Nikon R10 viewfinder! And much better then these poststamps in the distance things of the seventies :)
  2. Prices are a bit steep for recelled holders with $12 value new components installed :( Wittner has NEW ones with 800mAh at Euro 120 including tax.(outside EU ex tax Euro 100). These have built in electronics to protect against overheating. Wittner is fully equipped for international communications, payments and deliveries. http://www.beaulieu.de/pages/s8_azub8.php Akku 1000 mAh NiMH für Beaulieu 4008 (alle Modelle) Bei diesen Akkus handelt es sich NICHT um nachgebaute Exemplare oder gar um aufbereitete Alt-Akkus. Es sind ausschließlich neue originale BEAULIEU Akkus aus aktueller Fertigung. Nur selektierte Akkuzellen höchster Qualität, thermisch abgesichert, 14 Karat vergoldete Kontaktflächen. Sicherung gegen Kurzschluß und Überstrom. Best.-Nr. B472118 - (100.00 EUR netto) 119.00 EUR brutto
  3. certainly good and smart looking cameras Many filmers don't bother with a 2/3 stop overexposure. Whichs is the difference when exposing 64 ISO as 40. You can adjust the exposure by using the compensation or use manual exposure. I.e. measure and go to manual and the close down a bit of 2/3 on the aperture. Another option would be to have the camera internally adjusted to make it expose correct on 64 when a low sensitive film is in. ! Don't send it to Luxembourg as this guy is not doing any actual work. The site is up but the response is dead. And maybe the guy is too :)
  4. The insertable thing for the grip can be found at Wittner's You could also get an external batterypack and connect this to the 9 volt inlet. The 8.4 volt ones are popular in modelcar racing. Dirt cheap. Even a small one has over 2000mAh and could be strapped on top or to the camera. Make sure the connector remains in fully or you may short the battery and wreck it. :( Too bad it has no lock screw facility. Better find a 3.5mm plug with a partial plastic shaft.
  5. Depends who you ask. :) Allegedly Leicina Special gates are made from some magic material. Design is quite simple when compared to Minolta D-10 or Nikon R10 R8 and earlier models. Possibly shared source? These have guiding ramps and force the curve of the film into flatness at the postion of the gate. R10 and R8 also have a really special arresting pin. In general jitter/stabiltiy problems stem from friction in the cartridges or the camera not having the pull it used to have. Friction from the metal of the gate is the least likely source. Make sure if you have special homebrew Super-8 that the film is lubed and not too rigid for the curves in the cartridges. I.e. get film from Wittner. Also a check on the present torque from the wind-up driver is a must on these ancient cameras of all brands. Wittner kinotechnik sells Gate Lube to juice the gate a bit for few rolls :) Should you insist. PS I have no relation with Wittner :) PS2 Leicinas are still serviceable. Isn't it a powersupply problem?
  6. add: There was a Lecina Special extra sepcial edition which would go over 100fps :) Now find one of these...
  7. The Mekel Super-8 does 250 fps from a standard S8 cartridge. Although it has a special way of handling the film outside the cartridge. The Mekel 300 does 300fps from a Polavision cartridge. No modifications!
  8. If the example of the boiler applies then it applies even more to a 6008 comparing to 4008 somewhere else. Just plug in a better powersource and check the workings before sending it off for a repair of some unknown part. In USA you might also use super16inc.com. Best pricing and references. Beaulieu cameras are best compared with Citroën DS cars if it must be a car, lifelong lots of complicated maintenance rather then german ran Lamborghinis. Which you hardly ever will see by the road with its bonnet open. :) Nor will you find there any japanese cars. :)
  9. There are variations in friction a cartridge of certain brands and filmtypes can have. :) Especially the homebrew things could be lacking proper lubrication. Also important is to run these Beaulieuxes with an extra strong batterypack when there is a large 200ft cartridge in or one of these high friction things. I.e. the large original external knob/fist of 8.4 volt which fits the grip. Or an external power source on the power inlet. This can be a mains adapter or a large battery-pack of 8.4/9 volt. Both with proper power ratings. You will find the camera more responsive too with 8.4 volt inside!
  10. Just use a tripod, shoot from the TFT/LCD screen like that use some telephoto, shoot in the dark, some aperture close down and use long exposure like available on some Nizo, Bauer and Leicina cameras. Cannot go wrong :) Processing will take some time but from Sweden Andec-service in Berlin is close by.
  11. the Ah rate has nothing to do with overpowering or such. it is the quantity of content of a battery. I.e. it can sustain 1.7 A for 1 hour. or 0.85 for two etc. The voltage or max Ampere are not defined by Ah. The camera runs at 24 volt and needs 1 Ampere at most, likely this at top speed. In a S8 cartridge there are 3800 frames. So it takes less then 13 sec to expose fully at 300 fps. Polavision hold less.
  12. The super8wiki describes both with pictures: Visual_Instrumentation_Corporation_Model_SP-1_Cine_8_Camera Mekel_300
  13. Power adapter costs very little, I bought a few from a recycle-shop at 1 Euro a piece. 24 volt 1 Ampere should be good. Some old-school inkjet printers have strong external 'high' voltage adapters. You can also run it from truck batteries. I think you are misjudging the complexity of the needed work. A single-8 does not fit. The developer gel inside the polavisions likely has dried out completely. Although some have used 10 year old ones with good result. Good luck :)
  14. The Mekel 300 is a super-8 camera. It stops and starts as you like. It is fast and it has a registration pin just like the other Mekel. It is only 8mm film and not 16 or 35 with big reels. The specifics of other cameras have no relevance.
  15. The Mekel 300 does not take out a loop of film. The cartridge goes in just like in a standard polavision camera. If you manage to reload these or fix a reel like thing on top of the camera and quide the film through properly using a cartridge probably it should work fine. It is quite different from the Mekel super-8 camera which threads the film around its own sprocket.
  16. how well would photographs be printed/rendered? seems one has to supply a PDF and then the rendering of the PDF maker would determine how it is done? likely an album printingservice would be better for photo's
  17. this is some sort of print on demand publishing facility? is the print durable?
  18. The reloadable cartridge is vapourware. And I expect it will never show. Find really old single-8 cartridges. These are taped together and thus easily made reusable. The Mekel 300 runs only for the time the trigger is pushed in. Find the Zc1000 discussion on filmshooting were Roger mentions having built a 400ft holder onto a zc1000. Really nice. Try that on your Mekel (and zc1000). The trouble is there is no outside drive axis.
  19. Do you intend to use it for slow motion or do you expect the registration pin to give good effect? For starters to test the camera reload old polavisions with super-8 or single-8. Either from long rolls (from wittner) or yank film clips from kodak or fuji cartridges. Single-8 would be interesting as more length would fit the polavision and the film is much stronger. Modifying the camera would be better when you fix a 60 meter spool holder on top and some feeder and threading in the camera... Then you can use the 60 meter loads from wittner or just the 15 meters from cartridges wound on a spool. Making standard single-8 fit is near impossible. The end of production of these is nearer then you would think, I am afraid.
  20. Better ask Mitch Perkins in Canada. He has likely worked on the largest diversity of camera brands for converting them to superduper8
  21. it is only an OP-assumption that there is something to suppose about 64T
  22. these varta 450 barely fit in the height of the holder. how do you manage to get the connecting bands in between? These 600 version are even thicker and stacked together they are already higher the available height... I suppose one cannot compress them a bit. This would certainly damage the structures inside.
  23. glad it worked. :) don't understand why you thank somebody who only advised against the operation of enlarging the gate.
  24. here is a used one: usually people find one, buy it and then even it 3 years in storage. all with serious intent :) which never materializes. possibly you can find of these... all parts are still available. check here: steenbeck seems he has a number left... I thought there was some forummember in Los Angelos (USA) who is stuck with one.
  25. Hm, then it is likely a direction reverser. Don't understand how that can work when then stop pins near the film gate are not swapped. Certainly a strong motor if can transport the film past the stop pin if the wrong one is switched in. :) Still, glad that it works.
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