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Mark Sperry

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    The Great State of Maine
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    Beaulieu 4008ZMII - Pro 814 - Panasonic S1R
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    Still Photography from 35mm to 8x10.

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  1. I just picked up the Jobo expert drum for Super 8 film. Works great! Easy to load too...well relatively speaking. I have an Arkay CD40 film dryer, which is large enough for Super 8. However, how do people go about draping all the film about safely so that it can dry? Some tips would be appreciated on that point. I'm curious if there is some trick to it... I'm currently processing Tri-X as a negative. Tonight I tried 10 minutes in a 500ml solution of 1:1 XTol, the results came out looking good. I'd be interested to hear alternative development starting times if people have them however. Thanks! -Mark
  2. All great info in the last two posts! Thank you for that. I've been shooting with the camera. It's all working well now including the auto aperture movement. The only thing that is wrong is that the aperture wants to over expose by 1 stop. The needle indicates over exposure so the meter is not the problem. I confirmed the needle is correct via a spot meter on a grey target. And I can manually adjust to the correct exposure. So far I just have been setting the ISO 1 stop down, but I've also been in contact with the seller who have sent me a few DIY repair techniques, and have offered to take the camera back for adjustment at no cost. But overall, I'm not sure it's such a big issue. Now focusing the camera on the ground glass, yowzers that is hard haha.
  3. https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Camera-Photo/Beaulieu-4008-Refurbished-cameras-and-batteries-1894375727474190/ Why don't you ask them?
  4. I have the original instructions. The battery isn't that crazy, just a little hump that goes in the original battery port that converts it to modern lithium ion cells. Pretty cool IMO! Another question, in automatic mode should the aperture ring physically move on it's own?
  5. I purchsed a 4008ZMII with an eneloop based battery replacement. I bought it from a European seller who says that the manual indicates a mode or switch I have to engage for the camera to charge the battery. It came with the 'headphones' style jack that goes into the camera in the back like the original. Is that true? Is there a switch I engage to divert power to the batteries? Also, is there an easy way to dust off the ground glass. Mine definitely has some hair and spots on it.
  6. 35mm motion film is thicker it's true, not sure about the still films such as Portra 160/400. The thickness is variable though. Delta 3200 for instance is a very thick film. Most 120 cameras have some degree of tolerance for a thicker stock. The Cinestill guys are running 65mm film through 120 cameras even with the perfs and don't seem to be running into problems.
  7. The lens they have mounted is the 6mm 1.2 Cosmicar (Pentax). If it's a sunny day, and you're shooting with a 6mm lens, a better question would be how do you find anything out of focus? The DoF will be massive.
  8. This makes me SOOOO happy. I don't know what's better, it's return to S8 or 35mm. I hope it also gets cut for 120! My Rolleiflex would love to shoot the hell out of this stock.
  9. If it got through one reel that would tell me that it's capable of getting through exactly one reel. That's not something on which I'm willing to gamble thousands of dollars and a client's wedding film. Plus even if I wanted to shoot 2 or 3 reels that's hundreds of dollars in dev/scan at current lab rates. Cinelab isn't even doing SD scans anymore, and PacLab NYC closed so all processing must be mailed out for me. I'll just spend the money on a camera that I know has been fully overhauled and can be serviced at any time. It's a barely a dent in the lifetime RoI of shooting and a great deal of peace of mind.
  10. I bought the expensive Pro8mm rebuilt Super 8 cameras and it was worth it to me. I trusted their reliability far more than an eBay find, which matters because if I'm shooting a wedding for a client I'd rather know my camera is going to work than know I only spent 10 dollars on it. Now Kodak is giving us one with a video tap. That would make my life a lot easier if it's integrated with an internal light meter. I'll write to Kodak and see if they can get Christopher Nolan to make freaking Dunkirk featurettes for Kodak on Super 8 so that everyone here is satisfied by the production value.
  11. Yeesh you guys are being pretty hard on a prototype. It's a Super 8 camera still folks and it still looked like Super 8 to me. Some of the shots didn't have a great exposure but that shot of the truck looked great. To me it still looked like "Super 8" more or less. Meaning, a technically imperfect but aesthetically charming analog motion picture format. I don't understand why someone would come to the Super 8 forum and lodge existential complaints against the format. There is no way I would be able to shoot film for my motion projects were it not for super 8. I don't expect it to look like freaking 65mm just because 50D is available to me. I like that it's grainy and jittery. If I didn't like those things I would either not shot it, get a Logmar, or shoot 16mm.
  12. You can still make me an offer based on the ebay price I have. I'd love to avoid eBay fees and pitfalls.
  13. On eBay now: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pro8mm-Classic-Pro-Beaulieu-4008-Super-8-Camera-/262644659936?hash=item3d26d776e0:g:uYkAAOSwPCVX6a~Y
  14. Back to the OP, I've really enjoyed the last few years of seeing formats used almost completely for aesthetic reasons over cost. There were all the films that Tyler mentioned shot on Super 16 (Moonrise Kingdom was drop-dead gorgeous on screen), and even on TV the Walking Dead is still Super 16 (though I think the Cable TV compression makes it a little ugly and mushy), even as it's spinoff went digital. Then on the other side of that we have Dunkirk coming in completely shot on 70mm and we had Tarantino resurrecting a basically obsolete format and distributing projectors for it. There is some really cool stuff out there! I might be in a minority here but I think I can see the difference in formats even when just viewing a good HD copy at home on my TV. You can tell what parts of Batman were in 70mm, and Moonrise Kingdom doesn't devolve into mush, it looks great. Digital is kind of the great leveler as far as formats go, which is kind of boring in comparison (I'm no film purist but I like it see it shot as much as possible).
  15. DSC_6502 by Mark A. Sperry, on Flickr DSC_6501 by Mark A. Sperry, on Flickr DSC_6504 by Mark A. Sperry, on Flickr DSC_6503 by Mark A. Sperry, on Flickr Updated with some photos of the camera!
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