Andries Molenaar

That would happen with most if not all super-8 cameras. The transport-indicator is connected to the drive axis and just goes up and down while this rotates. The drive stops when the gate feeler senses the cut-away at the end of the film. Don't blame the camera for jammed cartridges :) All cameras will keep the motor running and let their pickup-driver slip. Better listen to the sound of the film unwinding in the cartridge. Or mind unusal sounds.

This is just a bunch of assumed conspiracy arguments.

Well, closure is not mentioned. :) If Kodak want to group film-packaging together they may have to move a few of the machines. That may require some heavy lifting. Or some disassembly and assembly.

Now a detailed report by mr and mrs Wittner in english with nice photos of the full manufacturing process of Kodak S8 cartridges: Wittner report in english Much better then these sour gripes on the format you see everywhere.

You didn't happen to buy this untested camera from ebay Hungary?

Last night the pages never completed. There is something really wrong. This morning it is better but that is because USA is sound asleep :) Opening a reply/quote screen is still a major thing and takes tiiiiiiime. Whatever the improvement was. It hasn't helped the performance.

Amazon is hardly a serious equipment supplier. You need a frim tripod with a pan-head or video-head for at least 4lbs. try a Gitzo 1340 with 2380 fluid head or a 1270 pan head. good for photography too although the 1270 doesn't go backward enough if you want to shoot something in the sky or on high buildings.

7 months is nothing and never a problem. unless it was kept in the glove comparment of a car in the sahara. for a number of years. If if were all that sensitive it would be unusable as a consumer item. Which Super-8 is. Does anybody think tens of millions of people 30 years ago kept their films in the fridge, just to film family life???

Well, if LOndon isn't good enough try directly Andec for quick and affordable. Or Super8.nl for personal service and quick processing.

Well, I thought 'some film' meant 2-3 cartridges. I have some old ones which he could buy for his experiment something (bucket or scratch proccessing, whatever) . But then he expects an address to order 100000 or 1000000 feet from newly produced film. Apart from the money involved for this experiment. Maybe you have a big freezer? :lol:

Don't bother. In OP's mind - Some film - could be around 1,000,000 feet :) Freshly produced and easily ordered :) :)

It is not the execution of maintenance. It is about the apparent effect on the experienced performance. Everything takes for ever to appear on screen. Parts of the page parade in very slow and it takes easily 30 secs before a simple page is complete. Either it is now hosted on server which lost its way in its data or the hosting provider has a lousy connection. If there are geographic differences (i.e. USA fast, rest slow) then there is a bad peer-agreement with the internet-exchange of that connection.

Indeed a robot/automaton. Double servers with double connections etc. Works nicely and bids just into the last few seconds. No emails to others. So that keeps out a few responses. It is a paid service. Either with a period subscription or a pay per successfull bid. There are also application which run from your own computer. Some for free. But then it must be on and the line must be up too. :)

It would indeed be hard to build a compendium yourself. :) But the rods are simple aluminium tubes which can be had at a few Euro. And cutting these to length isn't rocket science :)

Well, it is so slow that I actually use a 2nd instance of the webbrowser to have somehting to do while it pulls the inforamtion from here. Used to do that in the past when I had only 19 or 33 kbps modems. For bidding you might consider: www.bidnapper.com Although they now have an advanced page whcih loads slower but is then faster while using it. I am not suer how well your 1994 computer will handle that. The service is really a sharp bidder. Never misses and it can save some nightrest when auctions close mid night.

I thought I sent you a PM but I cannot locate in the sent messages? I am in Netherlands on top quality provider network. I just installed a new and very fast computer. And it is just the same extreme slowness which no other site suffers. In EU or USA. So, it is the traffic from your hosting-provider I suppose.

Looks nice, but it is the rods and camera-base only. :( They produce it is in series? With some MDF woodwork and 2 15mm aluminium tubes the same can easily be achieve in DIY The Chrosziel matte box is going to cost over Euro 500.

Is everybody experiencing extreme slowness from the server? I thought it was supposed to have become faster after the reorganisation of a few months ago.

Yeah right. The format saved by one expensive shop in LA. Super-8 saved itself by becoming hip which was promoted by the spread of Internet and the lust for something with a genuine feel in a time where everything is becoming sterile and digital. In Japan analog photography is as lively as ever as people seek something with a real feel to it. Imagine plenty real photography goods available in every photography shop and even in large general stores.

Good idea. Using the handcranck and locating a shutter open mark point long exposure should be doable too. Nice for star footage. Might try a beaulieu long exposure motor too. If you need machine part making etc you might try mr van der does at www.de-snek.nl.

Well, if people want a repairmanual for free (while these are for sale at Euro 15) then it is very unlikely that these same people are going to spend Euro 300-400 on a adjustment job abroad.

What happened to the happy little Beaulieu? What is the advantage of using super-8 here??? Only the look of the image on film I suppose. The rest might just be 16mm. At the price of mid-size used car :)

Likely here: Bernie at Super16 inc

How long remains a reply open for edit? 5 minutes or less? BTW Why do people want to film surfers from such a long distance and then use Super-8? With a pro8 budget the filmer might just as well use a 16mm camera. Plenty of telefocus on c-mount adapters there too. Costs per second are much alike.

It isn't my camera or zigview. I bumped into some info from this blog and thought to link the zigview to this thread. The zigview have been mentioned before and this guy is using one. So it can work. There several models of zigview. You have to find an adaptable adapter to fix the zigview to the beaulieu. Of course there isn't a ready made one. Find the one with enough body to go around the eyepiece and then fix a meachnisme or a set of clamps to hold it in place. Possibly a nikon dk-7 ring could be easier to adapt to the eyepiece and then a zigview standard Nikon round-viewfinder piece could clip the zigview to the beaulieu. I suppose keeping the zig-eye close to the beaulieu is important too as the pupil exit is very small. It is a bit like viewing a poststamp at an armslength :) Things should be easier with more modern viewfinder like on the nikon r10 or canon super-8. Although theses aren't real high eye-point either. Possibly the agfa movexoom 6 and 10 have the best viewfinder on that aspect.