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Andries Molenaar

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  1. 1999 is excellent to use. even with non-cooled storage. people will/should fight over these :)
  2. For solid and economical splicing you better get a Catozzo CIR model. Uses straightforward tape which makes for a nice price of 1-1.5 cent per splice. Many telecine business use these CIRs. The splicers are a bit expensive when new but there are offerings in the classifieds for used ones. The tape is available from US en EU sellers like Chambless and Wittner. Or CIR of course :)
  3. The UWL III just doesn't work with a R10. A pity because 67mm screwthread fits so nicely. Do not buy anything from Mr. Uhmeyer in the 'Super8 Camera Shop' he is a crook and sells scratched lenses and cameras with serious troubles without blinking. The garantees he gives are just fake. Check the forums and you will find plenty thread on this fraud.
  4. Apparently the camera is not in such a good condition. Finding the components to replace is the trick and will take time. I cannot make estimates for others. If the lens focus-ring doesn't turn easily it either has taken up a lot of dirt or more likely has taken a drop. Which of course the seller didn't mention.
  5. Of course they don't. Turning/giving business away would be rather stupid. Become a reseller yourself you get a reseller discount, and returns are much faster. BTW I doubt European services are attractive at moment with Euro/Dollar rates. Do the calculations yourself.
  6. Opening isn't to difficult. However, Nizo silberling are maintenance free. No lubing needed. The described problem comes from aged degenerated capacitors. The trick with the intervalometer rebuilds the capacitor a bit. Like in aged electronic flash units. Which ones would be anyone's guess :(
  7. I don't understand how you can be camera operator with so little understanding of classic optics and photography. Find the manual and do some further reading on DOF, aperture control, and focusing. Everything will prove fine then. Good luck.
  8. Good luck but I think you are overestimating demand. I don't understand why you do not apply for becoming listed Canada reseller for Andec. Andec does the processing work for Wittner and only adds costs and two weeks extra in time.
  9. The sliding knob with red point is for macro. Leave it in the upper, locked position. You cannot focus on the aerial image. For testing focusing swing in the ground-glass. Have the camera on a tripod. adjust the viewfinder for your eye. Make sure yu see the needle sharp. Open the aperture fully. And see if you can focus the image. Really far objects and things closer by. The distance markings should be correct for the focused items. Run brief shots of films on the selected items. That way you see if things line-up. Likely you don't collimation at $200-300 Searh the web for a manual. www.super8.no
  10. So you can tell without a collimator and just from your aerial image, which is not focusable at all that you need your lens collimated ??? What a pack of nonsense. Collimation is just checking and adjusting the rear lens of the imaging-lens if it projects images from infinity in focus on the film plane. You would need a collimator for that. If your images are in focus but dull collimation has nothing to offer. If you haven't dropped the lens it is unlikely to be needing collimation. If it is not fogged somehow and the internal filter is clear it is at the best it can do. Send it to Bernie at super16inc.com in USA Maine to have it checked if you must. He handles Beaulieu S8 cameras too. Likely the images look dull only when compared to a much better and contrastier character lens as the Nikkor. The Nikkors on the R8 and R10 are the utmost best lenses for S8 filming. Not to forget the filmgate and stop-pin on these cameras. Too bad they aren't available in C-mounted tubes. On its own the Angenieux may look nice enough.
  11. On 4008 the shutter mirror deflects the light into the prism. The viewfinder optics peer into this prism. With a little turn-knob one can swing in or out the ground-glass. The viewfinder thus either looks onto the ground-glass or into the aerial image. The lightmeter gets its light from a half permeable mirror. Part of the prism. I.e. the splitter. Not for image but just the light. A 6008 doesn't have a swingable ground-glass. The prism is constructed differently. There is a permanent center field of ground-glass for focusing. DOF check is not possible
  12. Oh really, better open a body and see for yourself. The light comes from the mirror on the shutter. Is then mirrored into the prisma where some light is diverted to the lightmeter. http://www.beaulieu.de/pages/s8_azub8.php Sucherprisma 4008 Strahlenteilerprisma für die Ausspiegelung Sucher/Belichtungsmessung der 4008er Kameras Best.-Nr. PC249 - (198.28 EUR netto) 235.95 EUR brutto At this price you could get 4-5 bodies :) If this glued mirror surface is letting go you get partial images. Damage is not in focus. If your groundglas is displaced (unlikely, don't hold your breath) you could try to swing it out. Was it swung in when it dropped?
  13. Are you sure the front lens is still rotating smoothly? Many cameras have taken the same drop and often the distance adjustment is not so nice any more after that... The image stays the same when then axis rotated? Seems a bit like the mirroring-surfaces in the beam-splitter have come loose. Or if you are lucky only the viewfinder tube could have become displaced a bit. From a part-spender you could find a replacement splitter. Or buy one from Wittner. It is not rocket-science but you need to know how to handle such a repair. In USA you have Ernie at super16inc.com who knows his way with Beaulieu. Otherwise there are Wittner in Germany and Bjorn Anderson in Sweden. And possibly some others. But due to the dollar-euro rate shopping in Europe is not so funny at the moment.
  14. Isn't film about images with movement in them? It is a lot of music with a series of stills. Only movement comes from the unsteady frame.
  15. It reads all correctly coded cartridges. Means that "It reads all correctly coded cartridges."
  16. R10 use the auto exposure on single frame too. It it is switched on :) It reads all correctly coded cartridges. The lens is as good as in any other focal position. :) Daylight film goes without filters when shooting in daylight... Thus put a filter key in if the cartridge is not coded correctly. Or anyhow :)
  17. Plenty professionals and amateurs do E6 processing themselves with excellent results. Baumgarten is of little use if you want your films back within 3 months or something and are prepared to make reservations ahead of time. Quite useless. And he applies about them same technique as others who process as a small scale lab. Nothing advanced there. There plenty labs large and small in USA, Europe and other continents who do excellent work.
  18. Hmm, why do you ask me? I wasn't there nor do I work with Wittner or Kodak. I merely pointed to the article of interest. There are now far more pictures. If you click one you get a larger picture and you can advance it as in a slideshow. I am not a native speaker of english but the description clearly describres a very large machine which fills cartridges fully automaticly. The cartridges are prepared by hand and set in a large container which can be connected to the machine. All visible in the pictures.
  19. One option is to put the camera in manual exposure mode. Use your handheld exposure meter and set the aperture according to the reading. You can also use the internal meter. Adjust it a bit from the metered value. The ND filters are there to reduce the incoming light and allow for a larger aperture to get less DOF
  20. Found this little reference. Seems they used a lot of MFX on the surveillance of Nuclear sites. . EVOLUTION OF CONTAINMENT AND SURVEILLANCE - THE FIRST FOUR DECADES 1957-1997 /5/ The IAEA was established in 1957 as a functional organization, including the commencement of inspections at nuclear facilities in member states. The first inspections began in the early 1960s at small research reactors, and expanded in 1962 to power reactors. Although there was little C/S equipment available for use, it was in this time frame that the first use of C/S began. Several commercially available seals were placed in use, initially on a trial basis. In the fall of 1966, the IAEA was using the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) seal. Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in the US later developed solder techniques designed to strengthen the tamper resistance of these seals. When implemented for IAEA Safeguards on a routine basis, the IRS seal became known as the "Type E" seal. Even after 40 years, it is still in use. No optical surveillance or monitors were in use in the first decade of the IAEA. Starting in the second decade after 1967, a variety of equipment was introduced. In the area of seals, the backbone became the aforementioned Type E metallic seal. Today, after several modifications, it remains the most widely used seal. Adhesive (paper) seals were introduced, principally for short term sealing applications. The first fibre optic seal, termed Fiber Lock, was developed and offered for evaluation by the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA). Also, the development of electronic seals began at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) in the US. By early 1976, the IAEA had about 60 optical surveillance systems in use, including several types of single frame 35mm, 16mm, 8mm, Super 8mm cameras, and a few custom made video units. This came about as a result of the rapidly expanding commercial market for in-dustrial and home use of film-based movie photography. These systems included: Film Systems - One of the first optical surveillance devices used was the 35mm Robot Cam-era, custom made for the IAEA by a German vendor. This system was mains powered and had an 8,000 frame capacity, with time recorded on each frame from a battery operated 24 hour clock. It produced excellent picture quality, and was evaluated in several nuclear facili-ties in Europe and South America. Throughout this decade, numerous commercial film cameras were developed and appeared on the market. A number of these systems were evaluated by the IAEA, and to a limited degree, used in field applications. These systems included: . Zeiss 35mm Contarex camera . Flight Research 35mm camera . Bolex 16mm camera . 8mm Minolta D-4 camera (first 8mm system) . Minolta D-6 camera . Minolta D-10 camera . Kodak Analyst Super 8mm camera . Minolta XL-400 and XL-401 Super 8mm cameras The first models of the Minolta XL-400 camera system used a French mechanical timer, were battery operated, with constant or random picture taking time-intervals, and had a 3,600 frame capacity. Later models had an electronic built-in timer, a 7,200 frame capacity, and used Ko-dak MFX film. By 1978, the Twin Minolta XL-401 camera system, after a number of timer 6 modifications, became the primary IAEA optical surveillance system, and was in worldwide use for well over two decades, until it was replaced by video systems. In some cases, inspectors had to develop the film in the bathtubs/sinks of their hotel rooms, producing a variety of inconveniences and results. The inspectors later used the Porto-PAC dry process Kodak developer for processing the film. Use of this developer eliminated the hotel room-bathtub-film developing routine.
  21. The edit facility is really quickly disabled. The Orwo and Fomapan can be had in S8 from Wittner. The Macophot is/was? available in Infra-Red and in 135
  22. You could of course shoot some pieces using red and dark-red filter. Run it at low speed for long exposure times. Don't expect any dramatic effect like on real Infra-red film. Kodak has discontinued their infra-read products and you would be amazed at the prices these films now get at eBay. You could also check on the red-sensitivity of Orwo or Fomapan. Now, if anybody had a S8 or 8mm perforator it would still be possible to slit and perf some Macophot and shoot clips of 1.5meter or something. Or even long rolls if they would sell these.
  23. Better check if the film is sensitive at all in low or past visible red. Otherwise you will end up with very dark film :) I doubt it is.
  24. What processing was applied to this MFX? I have a number of these cartridges too and don't to wreck too much film while attempting to find times and chemistry. Thanks!
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