A.Oliver

Hi, apart from the one stop difference, which is the better stock for daylight work, there will be no additional lighting. Plan to shoot in December in the uk. I am use to kodachrome stock, but i must plan for grubby light on the day. Which is the sharper of the two stocks, any other stock recommendations will be greatly received. Andy

Hi, apart from the one stop difference, which is the better stock for daylight work, there will be no additional lighting. Plan to shoot in December in the uk. I am use to kodachrome stock, but i must plan for grubby light on the day. Which is the sharper of the two stocks, any other stock recommendations will be greatly received. Andy

Hi, can recommend there 16mm processing and t/k. For info call Nicole on 020-7284-7939. I believe they are the only processers of super 8 neg in the uk.

Hi, appears your only option is a beaulieu 4008zm2 or zm4. Leicina special offers interchangeable lenses but not 2-70 or 2-80fps. My beaulieu 7008 can only run at 4,9,18,24,36 and 56 fps. Servicing can be expensive, if you decide to go the beaulieu route, make sure the camera aint been messed with by do it yourself repairers. Make sure the wratten filter within the 4008 is still in situ, i have purchased two from ebay, the wrattens were missing on both cameras. This caused the back focus to be out, result, soft images in low light. If you are in Europe try emailing this chap, he can service beaulieus, i am not sure if he sells cameras. bjorn.andersson@brevet.nu If you are in the US, shipping costs and inport duties may be high.

maybe they've seen sense and didtched it in favour of kodachrome. I think not, no release date announced for 64t in the uk yet.

Hi, leicina special is a great choice of camera, if you can, run a test film through the camera before purchase or buy one with a warranty, you pay more but its worth it. I have used other cameras, many swear by canon 1014xls, yes i had two for twenty years, but the special i find gives sharper images especially when the lens is wide open. 10mm cinegon should give you unsurpassed super 8 images. You still have time, buy some k40 while you have a chance. As for k40 vs 64T, here in the UK, we have no processing facilities for the new 64t stock, price i believe will be around £9.00 for 64T plus processing,plus shipping to and from Europe, I reckon the cost of super 8 reversal may have doubled once k40 ends. I think any light user of k40 will abandon super 8 now. I know of three people who shoot there home movies on super 8, two of them said they will give up, one is prepared to give the 64t a go, but his canon 514xl will not read the film speed correctly. It will be interesting to see in 12months time if super 8 reversal sales have plumitted in the uk.

Hi, owning an arri st and once owning 3 different R16s, i too am biased, consider the arri st first. Buy the st with the bayonet mount and a 12v fixed speed motor. Easier to rig a 12v battery up rather than an 8v one. Arri GB can still service st, some parts are a problem i believe, but the st hardly (in fact never) ever goes wrong. Shneider primes are very good. Beaulieu R16 is a compact camera, easy to use, angenieux 12-120 big lens on a small c-mount, very difficult to pull focus on full zoom without wobble, due to the small c-mount. I have only ever used a 12-120 lens on an R16, the lens went very soft around t2.5-t4, forget the R16 auto exposure, R16 is a good run and gun camera. I can only comment on a bolex H8 RX, which is similiar to the 16mm model, viewfinder not as good as the arri, horrible bolt on electric motor. But fantastic optics, switar primes are very sharp.

Hi, yeh still use double 8 as well as double super 8, practise loading and unloading the camera with a roll of outdated film. Run the outdated film all the way thru the camera making sure the footage counter and film transport are all working ok. When you come to expose your fresh film stock, load/flip/unload in the shade, not bright sunlite, the darker the better. If you are using cinechrome 40 make sure you have the correct filter on the lens ( filter required is a 85, which converts tungsten film to daylite), if you can get hold of cinechrome 25, no filter is required. Not familiar with your camera, guess there is no auto exposure, so you will have to manually adjust the iris to obtain correct exposure. Hopefully someone with knowledge of your camera can advise on how to adjust the exposure.

Just looked at the www.7dayshop.com prices for k40, wow, price for k40 has rocketed from just over £10.00 a cartidge to £17.99!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi, i have heard a whisper that there will be no processing available in the uk for the new 64t stock, unless someone knows otherwise?. I can see that the hassle of sending film and payment abroad for processing too much hasle for some k40 users. I wonder how many existing k40 users throw the towel in and decide give up super 8. Another nail in the super 8 coffin!

Hi, the format is still very much alive, here's where you buy your film from http://members.aol.com/Super8mm/JohnSchwind.html

reckon i have shot since 1986 at around 2500 rolls of 16mm k25, started using k40 last year, k40 is a lottery in certain lighting condition, it sometimes yeilds images which appear soft, i have had a lot of disappointing results in the past 18months with k40 in daylight situations, when i know k25 would have coped with the lighting condition. Since using ds-8 k25, image quality has improved, much sharper images and more consistancy with sharp images. K40 is a filmstock meant for artificial lighting and not daylite. Before i outed my canon ds-8, ran k40 and k25 thru the camera, again the k25 gave the better image in daylite. I wonder if someone can explain the technical difference between k25 and k40.

Hi, bolex has a prism which gobbles up a bit of lite also 3 prime lenses, 5.5,12.5 and 36mm. The images look cleaner imo,because of the daylite stock. It would be fantastic to see what the leicina special with 10mm lens could acheive with k25, or any daylite stock.

pitfulls of k40, i found in both super 8 and 16mm k40 yeilds amazing results, but in certain lite, the film looks grainy and soft. Hazy sun, landscapes, sun over your shoulder, k40 struggles. Spin the camera so the landscape is backlit, sharpness improves a lot. K25 however does not suffer.Couple of months ago i ran k25 ds-8 in a bolex side by side with a leicina special in grubby lite conditions. The k25 images were miles ahead of the k40. Is this why standard 8 always looks more colourfull and sharper than super 8, most std 8 films were on a proper daylite stock. Super 8 can look amazing using k25 on a converted bolex. When 16mm k25 came to an end i switched to 16mm k40, k40 looks softer, more grainy and is not good as k25 in daylite.

Hi, look out for one of the most underated make of projectors, 'Noris' for dual 8 look for the norimat-d projector, a yelco mp350 dual guage projector however should be within your budget. Eumig 810hqs is a dual guage sound model. One of the last dual 8 projectors made was a bauer t183. If you see a noris in full working order, i recommend that.

thanks for those stills, e64 is a bit grainy, surely there must be a finer grained film in the kodak range of products than e64t. Kodachrome 64?, please no one mention that 7285 circus chrome. There must be another stock kodak put into the super 8 cartridge please.

please can anyone give me the answer to whether e64t is sharper than k40. Thanks, Andy

Quite right, i must stop mourning the passing of k25 ( 6X16MM k25 still in the fridge ), look forward to the new 50d, yes i do use the superb vision 2 range, though 16mm k40 is the stock i use the most. ( until the announcement us kodachrome users are all dreading. 'next year i fear' )

Excellent point, about the jitter now on ebay!. I own a beaulieu 4008 and 7008 ( dont use the 4008 now ). i have noticed that the beaulieu gates are rough as old boots, not smooth like the leicina and canon cams i have. Will a rough gate cause jitter, it surely cannot allow for smooth film transit. Recently used the same batch of k40 thru the leicina special and beaulieu 7008, the 7008 images are very jumpy compared to the special, so much so the 7008 is off for another service/checking, 6 months and ten film after its last service. I do wonder if this jitter thing is to do with the camera in some way or form. Yes there was that dodgy batch of cartridges, i wonder if indeed poor kodak have been taking the blame for our dodgy cameras. Andy

but the winner is k25!!!!!!!!! Will the new 50 be available in the super 8 cartridge?

all these improvements, yet k25 had no grain, is the new 50d now comparable to the late k25 lack of grain????? Andy

Hi, according to my book on movie projectors ( by Jurgen Lossau ) the said projector is an 8mm model from around 1948. You cannot show super 8 films with this projector. Andy

Hi, received mine approx 10days ago, well worth the long wait. have found these email addresses within the mag, may be of use to you. Jurgen Lossau (editor) redaktion@schmalfilm.biz publisher is www.schiele-schoen.de subscrition is bade@schiele-schoen.de i sent an email to redaktion@schmalfilm.biz on the 4th september 05 and no reply, he could be on holiday?

Hi, wots wrong with your special? I assume you purchased the camera in non working order? Would advise you not to mess with the camera, send a private message to this guy, he knows all about specials, do a search for member 'sparky' send him an email i am sure he could advice or help. If you have trouble finding him send me a message and i will contact him for you. Leicina special when working does produce a much more stable image than my fully serviced beaulieu 7008. If i had to choose it would be the leicina.

I stand corrected, i have only ever used cosmicar lenses with single chip cctv cameras, and they go soft at the edges when wide open. If they are so good for film cameras why dont pentax/cosmicar market them for film cameras? just found this http://www.chamblesscineequip.com/catalog/C22525.htm well i have access to cosmicar lenses, may give one a try on my beaulieu 7008.