Joerg Polzfusz

Anyone actually shot with that camera and can comment on its image-steadiness and on the dirt?

Hi! When taking a look at the steadiness of this clip, then Kodak’s S8 cam is on par with recently serviced Canons/Nizos/Beaulieus/…: But when taking a look at petapixel‘s videos, then the registration is simply horrible: So what‘s the truth? Is Kodak’s camera worse than any 50 years old camera? Or did petapixel forget to increase the steadiness in post? Or did they used the perforation holes instead of the frame separator as a reference point? Or did they use some cheap Chinese telecine device (Wolverine/Kodak/…)? You‘ll also notice that all three videos have a problem with dust/dirt - in brand new cameras?! Where does this come from? Is this a design flaw of the camera? Or did they forget to clean the camera when switching cartridges?

BTW: in the Comecon countries, both the camera negatives and the projected filmstock was 70mm wide. Search for „DEFA-70“ and „Sovscope-70“ on the internet for additional information. https://www.in70mm.com/presents/1961_sovscope/library/story/index.htm https://www.defa-stiftung.de/en/films/film-search/defa-70/

Funny side note: Single8-cartridges also have a third „hole“/„notch“ to inform a camera about the film’s sensitivity - see the yellow circles. This is defined in the standard, but I haven’t seen a camera that uses it. And there are even more „holes“/„notches“ that are not described in the standard - see blue circles. They have probably only been used by Fuji’s lab to automatically distinguish between color and B&W films. Photos are from Muddy‘s page - https://www.muddyfilm.net/2006/04/single8speedset.html and show 25 ASA (daylight color), 50 ASA (B&W) and 200 ASA (tungsten color) - from left to right. Another strange observation: in these images, only the cart for the RT200N has got a lower „nose“/„nib“?! (Only visible on Muddy‘s webpage as I had to reduce the image size here on the board.)

Hi! Yes, the shaking, never on a tripod „pov“-camera is overused in many productions these days. But this trend isn’t caused by video games (as they don’t shake their virtual cameras). Instead, everyone is telling me that this is mimicking the „war reporter style“ (see footage shot in WWII, Vietnam-War,…).And it isn’t a new style in Hollywood, too, e.g. try to watch „Speed II: Cruise Control“ from 1997. IMHO in today’s productions, this is just a cost-saving thing: no need to buy/rent tripods/dollies/steadycams, no time (=money) spend on setting up tripods, laying out tracks, … (and later removing them).

Other than using unperforated 35mm film and cutting it into three rows of 9.5mm, Double4.75mm or Super9.5mm, there are also devices that convert 16mm films into 9.5mm.

Hi! There are several options in Zoom that can be set by the sender and by the receiver: deshake, denoise, deflicker, … . (Screenshots from the German iPhone version) It’s hard to tell whether it was an incorrect setting on your or the organizer‘s side.

A link to the former US Group of 9.5ers: https://web.archive.org/web/20111120225845/http://www.9-5usa.org/

Fresh films are made by CFA on a non-regular base: https://colorfilmsarchives.com/fr_FR/products/pack-pellicule-ektachrome-100d-9-5mm-30-m-developpement

Everything you need to know about Pathe‘s formats: http://pathefilm.uk/

There are many small details that could spoil the idea of using sunset-takes for sunrise-scenes. E.g. at sunset, there’s usually more traffic than at sunrise. And cars, trains, busses, trucks… will turn off their lights at sunrise and on at sunset. (Same is true for domestic lighting, lighthouses, streetlights, aviation obstruction lighting, …) At sunrise, plants will open their blossoms. And they will close them at sunset. Sometimes, you can guess the cardinal direction by small details: A compass that is accidentally shown. Flags, plants, hairs … that move in the wind … (in Europe: usually westerly wind). In Europe, trees that are standing alone, usually have more moss on the northern and western side. Etc.. Not to mention that you have to ensure that you don’t accidentally film the raising/pulling down of a flag. And don’t shoot paperboys, postmen, bakers … that start their work. Especially in winter, pupils might already be on their way to school at sunrise. Etc.

It looks like Technicolor produced several different projectors for these cartridges: Standard8, Super8, sound, … https://www.filmkorn.org/super8data/database/projectors_list/projectors_technicolor/projectors_technicolor.htm E.g. the model „1200 X-2“ even supported two different cartridge sizes.

It’s a Technicolor one. Most likely the one mentioned in these two videos:

Hi! Have you been using the internal filter (in some cameras, these filters started to rot and to have tiny holes)? Or did you stop looking through the viewfinder without blocking it? Otherwise (as you claim that it’s not visible in the viewfinder), I would suspect that there’s something between mirror and gate. (When it’s also visible in the viewfinder, I would suspect some problems with the mirror (dirt, scratches, defect coating)… Good Luck!

Not to mention the increased grain when cross-processed…