Jeremy Cavanagh

Bill, Very good video, I hadn't realised you could reuse cartridges but it makes sense. Isn't it possible to still buy blank cartridges from Kodak? I came across a 2008 thread by Richard Tuoy in which he was organising to buy them but the min order was 168 cartridges. I have a kaccema reuseable cartridge but I would like some blank ones to try out and Wittner's price is a little steep.

Any cost saving by using a monochrome sensor, taking sequential RGB frames + IR of each film and then combining them (even though the transfer rate would be much slower but you avoid artifacts due to bayering)?

Rob, When you mean high CRI LEDs is that as a light source of >5400 in a scanner because there seems to be some criticism of using CRI below 5400/5500 but that maybe due to my lack of knowledge of this area.

Thats good news. Now if I could just get Kodak to ring me back about opening an account with them to buy film, tiny as I am.

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Peter, How difficult is a pin registration system?

Great. I was thinking I should offer you a spare parts price as I need a front element for an 814 but this is a much better result. The Canon cameras can be buggers to pull apart so I guess the Seandean guys just went, "oh noooooo"! Good luck with it.

Simon, As pointed out above there are grub screws on this camera that will remove the lens focussing cylinder but check why the focus is out - is the cylinder that is the focus ring and holds the focus elements deformed in shape in anyway e.g. its been dropped and landed on the lens? If so it is very difficult to get off for repair (I destroyed a 1014 focusing ring because it had been deformed before I bought it off EBay). If you go through the link you put in above it does give you a good guide to taking that assembly apart - I've used it successfully for 814s and once you get it apart you can check if all the glass elements are in place. The other thing is the focus may have slipped off its guide on the outside of the lens barrell so it still revolves but not at the correct distance. The difficult bit in taking getting at the focus elements is getting the retaining ring off - it may need very, very careful applications of something to loosen any gum or whatever that has accumulated on the thread (do NOT use WD40, do NOT use oil) and then you might have to apply heat to expand the aluminium body and finally the most useful tool is a spanner wrench for getting the ring off and they can cost anything from 25 Euros up to 100 Euros and more.

Thats interesting as the 1014 is listed on the GK website as one of the cameras tested as working with the pressure plate. Could it be that a camera needs to be CLA'd to work well with the pressure plate? I hope it works because I have a number of 1014s and 814s I am gradually CLA'ing and restoring (they have recurring issues where things get clagged up and carts can jam in them but it doesn't take much to clean and lube those particular spots) and just one 155 macrozoom (another camera listed as working with the plate).

Harry, Park Road was the last mainstream lab (i.e. including 35mm) in both NZ and Australia, is that correct? Jane Campion's Top of the Lake series was that shot on film and if so where was the processing done?

Thanks Jose, I was thinking of buying the metal pressure plate, so it does make a measureable difference?

Another thing about this example of 50D is that I assume it used the plastic pressure plate of the super 8 cart (i.e. the slip in metal pressure plate you can buy here in Europe wasn't used). It would be interesting to see if there is any further inprovement in resolution if DS8 was used but I suppose Kodak is not releasing any 50D in DS8?

I work in broadcasting as an engineer and what this shows me is that a person with the skills to frame, shoot, light and tell a story using this on Super 8 or 16 is going to be able to get stuff on screen for a cost at a quality that a black magic etc is going to struggle to match under similar conditions. There are just two things that I would add to the quality of these pictures to further : 1. Audio - gotta be superb 2. Kodak has gotta put some marketing muscle behind this product. It will be interesting if some DOPs start using this in 35.

Brilliant! Lets hope Kodak hangs onto this resource. Thanks for displaying it. I would love to display it on a Grade one monitor and then project it as well

Very good, very, very sharp. The only fault is the contrast is slightly low on some shots. What camera did you shoot it with?

I'm a broadcast engineer and have been reading this thread with interest. I was especially interested in the comments bemoaning that directors now just treat digital recording as 'free' i.e. they just keep rolling and rolling, this is something I have noticed a lot from my side of the television industry. So I wanted to ask two questions: does this attitude of recording and recording because digital is 'free' force up post costs because there is far more material the editor has to sort through and manage and does the constant recording result in the people involved not concentrating on what's being shot, image wise, what is happening in shot, etc where as before if you only had 100 ft of film left you really had to concentrate lest you lose your chance. BTW I overheard a conversation the other day between two film people that there is apparently a bank here in London that uses 16 mm film for its most critical security cameras (i.e. I think they said frame per second) because the bank reckons digital can be 'interfered' with and film can't.

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Jayne, I see someone else here has also suggested LED lights - I guess you got my post at film labs on hiring the LED lights of the sort that go on the top of ENG cameras for news work - the rectangular ones that use an array of LEDs so its a spread light. These are light, flat and retangular so could lend themselves to being taped to something handy or even hand held rather than needing a tripod or stand and lifting the overall amount of light. I would've thought it would be straightforward to hire one of two of them with a battery or two and charger or perhaps I'm a bit out of touch. I have to confess I don't know how long one battery would last operating a couple of these so perhaps two or three batteries would be better - depends on how else much you are carrying in to the location.

Bolex manuals are still about. I've been searching for the Canon ones for about six months now. I don't know what its like for other camera makes. I'm sure the Canon manuals are around somewhere.

I have the same trouble. If its Canon cameras they used to be available but OTC told me Canon wasn't allowing them to sell them anymore so I got in contact with Canon UK and they took my request up and own the chain nd came back and said it was no longer policy to release this sort of copyright material. Other manufacturers I don't have any experience of except if its Bolex you can get their H8/H16 service manuals but I haven't tried the macrozooms yet. Please, if you find a source let me know, please. Good luck.

Just wanted to check. This Agfa film, what process will it use for developing, E6?

Don, Very sad news. I last corresponded with Roger in early December, he was generous as ever.

The above posts are interesting stuff. I would like to build some crystal sync circuits for motor driven 8 mm cams (either standard 8 or Super 8) but need to understand how motor speed is controlled most 8 mm cameras so if anyone can point me to a source of info that would be great. The crystal sync circuits are failry easy, the difficult part is interfacing them with existing systems such as those found in super 8 cameras (plus I am very rusty on my DC motor systems) so I have one particular question that someone may be able to answer straight off i.e. the 'flash' connection found on the side of cameras such as Canon's 814 and 1014 series does that fire the camera off frame by frame or does it send a pulse out of the camera to fire a flash lamp? If ist the former then I guess it would be fairly easy to control camera speed externally but I guess it can't be that easy. Look forward to any answers, thanks.

Hi, I've been trying to find copies of engineering repair manuals (not instruction manuals) for the Canon 1014 Autozoom Electronic and Canon 1014XL-S super 8 cameras. No luck so far, even from the usual suspects (e.g. Old Timers, Photobooks online, etc, helpful as they are). I do have an enquiry in with Canon UK being 'escalated' through their system but I think that may come back empty ('de-escalated' if you like). Can anybody suggest where I might be able to obtain such things? Cheers