Andries Molenaar

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.

Well, standard tools do it too:

Zigview on Beaulieu 4008

I suppose if one burns so much money on a stripped pro8mm 4008 the costs of a zigview are marginal :)

Seller raised the price after the first round? That is strange.

Repair on the actuator will very difficult. Either it is broken or the feeler has been too long in a n end position and got glued/stuck in dried out 30 year old grease.

This guy (super8camera-shop.com ) is best known for selling over-priced bad and broken cameras and then making the buyers pay for extra shipping and even the repairs. An idiot and a fraud. Even claiming to not have known about deep scratches in lenses. He is just selling untested fleamarket finds.

Why do you post other people's auctions???

Apparently seller is not so happy with the camera as he bought it only a few months ago.

Then at only at just over Euro 1000. But now it is tested ? And worth 3 times the amount?

Don't bother. It was sold to a trader who now has it on eBay at no less then US$1500

Any recommendations on the max price for such a set?

http://audio-tv-foto.marktplaats.nl/films-...-mm-camera.html

Yes, you shouldn't have a problem interchanging chargers. The original batteries tend to "pop" when they give up the ghost, and the casing cracks. Radio Shack nickel-metal-hydride rechargeables work very well with these cameras. Put 6 AA cells in an 8-pack housing and get the plug-in charger which charges 4 all-at-once. They run the camera forever.

AA's don't fit these cameras. You either need a contact-block and an external battery-pack or you could modify the original old battery-holder to hold 6 AAAs

How can something be a setback when the magazine arrived 15 years after Super-8 was supposed to be gone?

 

I wasn't real impressed with billing services.

 

I paid 142 dollars last year for first class service, that was what Paypal charged me.

 

I knew that was too much but I paid it anyways. I was billed this year for 79 or 99, but whenever I emailed back and explained that I had paid 142 dollars last year, can I get a partial credit, I would NEVER hear back.

 

Just another bill would show up reflecting the bill with no credit applied. I hope my experience was not the norm.

The weak spot was the administration of the subscriptions at the publisher's end. I expect they lost scores of subscribers (if not hundreds) by their poor handling of e-mail enquiries and their offensive bureaucratic handling when people actually made it through the first subscription.

But I must say the other magazine, super8today, is hardly any better. They excell especially at not answering simple questions. And thus not selling anything around $100

Giles Perkins of www.onsuper8.org and Doug Thomas of Spectra Film & Video started a campaign to save smallformat. They are looking for new subscribers for the magazine. Here is the link:

 

 

http://onsuper8.blogspot.com/2008/11/save-smallformat.html onsuper8 ://http://onsuper8.blogspot.com/2008/1....html onsuper8 ://http://onsuper8.blogspot.com/2008/1....html onsuper8

This link runs dead :(

This is what I find after some refering links:

http://onsuper8.blogspot.com/2008/11/save-smallformat.html

Seems the same but it should work

If getting the chemistry is the trouble you should look here:

http://www.wittner-kinotechnik.de/katalog/...mm/filmentw.php

FOMA Entwicklungs-Kit für S/W-Umkehrfilme Fomapan R100

Vollständiger Umkehrentwicklungssatz für die Umkehrentwicklung von Fomapan R100 oder anderen S/W-Filmen.

The price isn't too bad. Using LOMO tanks you can process 4 films in it.

The Kodak Tmax sets are good too but prohibitively expensive in my opinion.

There is also www.fotoimpex.de

Noticed this Retroroadtrips s8 travel film project before.

The website looked nice with the sample clips. http://www.retroroadtrips.com/

Now the DVD is actually available for purchasing. Should be a good mooded watching towards the weeks before christmas. The price isn't too bad either. Especially considering the extended content of the package.

Anybody got it already? Any experiences?

Camera recieved not working. They wont refund only repair, at $40 a pop shipping each way it's over the value of the camera. He just makes excuse after excuse. I'm , well, upset to say the least. The very least.

They have a hand of sending broken goods to paying customers.

It is a way to take hostages and let others pay for the broken goods they accidently acquired.

Their website clearly states 90 days garantee and at their idiotic price level

they should service to the full and should pay for the shipping in and out too. It is not an accidental broken item. They are fully responsible.

Also, they work under german law and are required to take anything back on postal orders. Broken or not.

German police is very much unto this kind of fraudulent sellers. These can easily be reached through email and website. Very likely the seller will give in very quickly as they cannot afford to be exposed to the income tax office. Which will happen when they get fined or punished through court doings.