Andries Molenaar
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Take all three cameras, canon 1014xls is the best run and gun cam, r10 has the sharper bottle.. Given i used an R10 last year on a wedding, i would not use one again as although the film indicator said the film was transporting, infact it was jammed!!! I've never experianced this problem with my late 1014xls, or current leicina special and 814xls.
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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.
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Unless people start buying more film, Kodak is going to reevaluate their line in Rochester this fall, and they will start cutting back.
One reason they were so accomodating to Wittner is that they know that these companies will continue to slit and pack super 8 film if they begin to drop out of the business, and they will continue to buy more bulk film.
They were feeling out Wittner as much as Wittner was scoping out them. Rest assured that there was a post-visit meeting to evaluate where Wittner was coming from, and that these observations will be incorporated in future decisions.
What is this 2005 road map?
This is just a bunch of assumed conspiracy arguments.
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great article, thanks for posting, but i'm a little confused, look here ? http://www.filmshooting.com/index.php?opti...&Itemid=154 one of the threads mentions the plant is closing down...
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.
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Now a detailed report by mr and mrs Wittner in english with nice photos of the full
manufacturing process of Kodak S8 cartridges:
Much better then these sour gripes on the format you see everywhere.
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You didn't happen to buy this untested camera from ebay Hungary?
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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.
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Hi,
Can anyone recommend a heavy duty tripod for a Super 8 Camera? My Nizo 3048 is faliing over with my cheapo Best Buy tripod. Looking at Amazon reviews of tripods it looks like a lot that are advertized as heavy duty really aren't.
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.
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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???
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please can someone recommend me a lab, i have 3 carts of v3 requiring processing, which lab is the best for super 8 neg processing, i've seen samples online, and some of the processing suffers a lot of white crap on the film...
Well, if LOndon isn't good enough try directly Andec for quick and affordable. Or Super8.nl for personal service and quick processing.
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what in heavens name are you talking about?
dave
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:
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where are you located ?
how many feet do you need?
you can call me at 1800 806 6808
dave
Don't bother. In OP's mind - Some film - could be around 1,000,000 feet :) Freshly produced and easily ordered :) :)
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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.
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But thanks for the info; that is interesting. So it is basically an eBay automate that you can set? Very nice stuff.
lag-time, but I WON that auction :-)
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. :)
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Hi all,
I have bought the black powder coated ACS camera plate for my Beaulieu 4008 ZM II, that still has the handle, and I can vouch for the extremely high quality of this product. With the plate screwed into the handle, the camera rests EXACTLY LEVEL on a table (without falling over) or levelled out on the tripod´s fluid head. The finish and fit is incredibly smooth. I am so glad I got one - it is worth every dollar is cost me.
I am thinking about various solutions for extension rods, compendium matte boxes, and filter holders myself, but I dont have the skill nor the machines needed for the job.
Best,
Bengt F ;)
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 :)
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"Slowness" is relative.
I'm on a 5-y.o. machine myself, so maybe I cannot see the speed the new improved sight has to offer, but if you want to call something "slow", try to win an eBay auction with a '94 computer on a 14.4kbps dial-up modem and timing out the amount of time it takes the bid to get through from the end of the auction. . .
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.
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There are a couple of times every day when the site slows down for server-side maintenance and backup, but that's just about ten minutes total.
Where are you located?
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.
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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.
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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.
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As far as I am concerned Pro8mm helped save and pushed the format to what it is right now, and for that Pro8mm earned my greatest gratitude and respect. quote..
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.
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Hello,
I have in my possession a Tobin time lapse motor for the Bolex H16 and a Fujica ZC-1000 single8 camera. I would like to combine these two devices in order to make some nice time exposures. The Fujica has a 1:1 drive shaft, so it should, in theory, be possible. I was wondering if somebody has already attempted this, how it worked out for them and what kinds of modifications were necessary.
If you could recommend someone who might be able to get these devices to work in unison, that would be nice as well. I'm located in the Netherlands, but wouldn't mind shipping the motor and camera abroad to get them modified.
Thanks,
Daan
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.
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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.
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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 :)
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Hi
Does anyone know if there's someone in England where I can get my Nizo 561 camera looked at and fixed?
Thanks
Pav
Likely here: Bernie at Super16 inc
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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.
MFX SUPER 8 FILM
in Super-8
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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!