Alberto Serra

As someone who just got throught the first half of his copy, I can only say a big THANK YOU! I really like the "hands on" approach. It's really making things simple to understand, so that when something doesn't go as expected one knows what to work upon, to improve the situation. Or at least how to change aim on the flight, if it becomes clear that what you have just doesn't do what you wanted to do. Given the price of film I'm initially going through most exercises with a DSLR set to a comparable time and ISO. The way the book is organized in chapters makes it really easy to "get the basics", and I find it handy to be able to immediately get a feedback, before going the long film process way. Very useful text.

Thank you SO much! Yeah it doesn't look terribly complex but if you don't know (as I did not know)... you're pretty much going to waste film and time! I *think* I can manage, but I think it would be really nice to publish the manual as it must be a quite common problem for n00bs like myself! I am inheriting my dad's Gevaert / Carena Zoomex Variogon (last used ~1967 I think, but luckily he extracted the battery so it is still in working order) and he used to have the film developed, so all I have is a projector and the splicer he used to assemble his holidays movies. If I can manage to load my reels next stop is developing them... so maybe I can cut costs to a more affordable level.

The best I have found so far is here: http://www.fomafoto.com/index.php/shop/b-w-film/cine-film/fomapan-r-100-2-x-8-30-5-m-detail I haven't looked much though, I first need to understand how to load it onto 7.5m reels. I'll see what I can do with a film editor once I manage to properly obscure the bathroom.

thanks!

Thank you! This is the 1970 Leicina Super, not the Special :) I haven't got enough budget for a Special this year. Though I will surely try and get one, if I turn out to be even just half decent with the Super. http://super8wiki.com/index.php/Leicina_Super So all I have (according to the manual) is that red button with a sort of T According to the manual, it boils down to telling the camera whether the film is colour of B&W (red vs BW side) and whether it's a T or a D. It doesn't explicitly say it will read the notches, but so I would expect, given that I have no way to state a number anywhere. The second knob allows to over/under expose by 1 stop (half stop levels available). But half a stop from what? It must be what it reads from the notches, I should think. Over-exposing is indeed totally fine, I just wish to have an idea of what the camera will use as a base exposition.

Hi all, my Leicina Super is finally travelling to me, and I am planning to test it with a 500T cartridge. Except of course the Leicina reads max 400ASA from the notches. I *tend* to think it should be allright, judging by this: http://peaceman.de.w..._Tools_v1.0.pdf Am I correct in assuming that the Leicina will use it as a 400TAsa? Thanks Berto

Thank you everyone! You make my shaky hands feel a bit less terrified :) Wow that is an amazing result!! I plan to shoot more than half of my material in 1960s themed dancing clubs (we have a lot of those here), so flower power, liquid lights etc. And those colours you have are just exactly what my wildest dreams were made of! Will join the forum immediately! And yes, it's not a Leicina Special (I'm not made of money!) but even just the super is more than I had ever hoped for. And I seem to have located the additional close-up lens, so... full house :) Been a very lucky find.

Hi all, sorry, one more n00b question. I just bought a Leicina Super, and I was planning to test it with a 500T cartridge. Except of course the Leicina reads max 400ASA from the notches. I *tend* to think it should be allright, judging by this: http://peaceman.de.www127.your-server.de/schmalfilm/super8/S8_Notch_Tools_v1.0.pdf I think it should interpret the notches as T400, which would lead to slightly over-expose the film (~1/2 of stop, if my rusty math works). And I can correct that with subtracting half a stop with the manual over-ride. Does it make sense? Cheers Berto

Thank you!

Hi all, N00b alert! Yes, I just put my hands on a camera my dad put away at some point in 1968/9 and my memory of working with film is hazy and fully made of cheap 35mm B&W photography darkrooms. Surely not what you call "knowledge". Anyway... I have found at least one source of bulk 2x8mm film, which would hopefully make my filming budget a bit less desperate. But I need to load it into 7.5m spools... my naive mind immediately imagined a plastic machine that can just load my spool for me, as people do with bulk 35mm film... then I hit google and grew progressively worried. After 36 hours of googling around I came to the conclusion that I either: 1) call the right thing with the wrong name (and so no results) 2) it is long extinct or it never existed for 8mm Please tell me it's 1) or if it's 2)... HOW? How does a normal guy do this? Thank you in advance! Berto