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Mark Dunn

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  1. Gunpoint street robberies are vanishingly rare here; he's relying on you not knowing that. And- Carnage Bros? They're 'avin' a larf.
  2. No reason the Hubble shouldn't use it. It was designed in the 70s, built in the early 80s and launched in 1990 and although various assemblies have been renewed, I don't think they've done an oil job.
  3. Be careful with the split image as it's easy to mistake the straight line. It varies a bit as your eye accommodates.
  4. A beautiful little film, Having just spent a wet couple of days in Belgium I can vouch for the rain in the Low Countries. The music was obviously modern, but was it from the original score?
  5. Copy that. Kodak are proud of their heritage and will probably send you a bit for nothing if they still carry it.
  6. A glass like that with a lot of head looks like about 200ml, the size you get in Köln. Whilst 1.4l of 5% Carlsberg is a little challenging, and I'd much prefer Kölsch, it's still only about the same alcohol content as a bottle of Mosel Riesling and I'm sure John Mills took it in his stride. Although sitting down no doubt helped. I don't know about you colonials but anyone in the film industry here would surely be able to down that much without breaking step.
  7. There is alcohol-free, rather than low-alcohol, beer. I can't think why you have to make it, rather than buy it.
  8. Catch him in 'Bad Day at Black Rock' if you haven't already.
  9. Forgive me, but in England we call what you call timing 'grading.' So your topic title, with 'colour' as the verb and 'time' as the noun looked rather philosophical, or at least existential.
  10. This is why I was able to get a Steenbeck for £75 (£20,000 new) and a pic-sync (£6000) for £1. And that was five years ago. I still love them, though, and one day I hope to have enough money to feed my K3. If 16mm. reversal is still around then.
  11. A step-down such as that would probably vignette quite a bit. I've still got my 8Z and mount, however. Please PM me if serious.
  12. An EV is one stop, so 0.8 EV is something between 2/3 and a full stop. So I'd say your meter means you to open up 1/3 stop from f11. Why it deosn't say f8 and 2/3rds I don't know.
  13. You say the pulley is intact, but there may be a broken or slipping belt inside the arms. If broken, superglue may fix it, or you might find replacements on eBay. The lace looks OK.
  14. All 8mm. film is 8mm. wide. The main stripe goes opposite the sprocket, outside the frame. A narrower balance stripe goes outside the sprocket, for even winding. Some projectors can record on it but the sound quality is pretty awful. Use of it was the only way that Super-8 could offer stereophonic sound.
  15. Moonlight is about 19 stops fainter than sunlight. That's a factor of nearly half a million. Short of an image intensifier you have no chance of getting anything close to a normal looking exposure.
  16. Such an emotive term. Fortunately we did away with all that unpleasantness thirty years ago.
  17. I wasn't going to mention this because I don't like to queer anyone's pitch, but you've posted again, promoting the virtues of cement splices, so I think it's fair. A tape splicer makes a butt join, so as long as you make a good job with the tape it doesn't show on projection. A cement splice works by overlapping the film, so the splice always shows as a frame effectively cut in half. Also, if you want to remake a splice, you have to cut out the overlap so you lose two frames. Cement splices are prone to parting in the projector. Well mine were anyway- I ditched them when I found the CIR. YMMV.
  18. Presumably you are aware that these two types are very different. The Wurker uses pre-punched tape splices which cost around 10p each, the CIR uses the much cheaper plain tape. I have a CIR splicer (the original metal guillotine version, not the cheaper plastic) but I would need a very good offer. It's about £200 new.
  19. The film end just has the work 'exposed' printed on it in ink, to remind you not to try to shoot on it, but you never got those few frames back from Kodak, just the few clear frames fogged in the cartridge gate. Kodak lab leaders sometimes had 'Kodak' inked on in red, but that, of course, would be at the head of the roll. Perhaps what you have seen had been added in editing.
  20. A likely candidate is a broken drivebelt. I replaced one on eBay a while back. Take the back off and it should be fairly obvious if one is missing. The remains will probably still be in there. Ah, here you go. http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw=eumig+belt+&_cqr=true&_nkwusc=eumig+drivebelt&_rdc=1
  21. Medium- and high- speed cameras are really meant to be lined up, then loaded and locked off for running, so reflex viewing isn't necessary. If you're moving the camera, and so need it, you might have to set up some sort of side or sports finder if you can't use the Pan Cinor. We used to focus on a piece of frosted film which wrapped around the sprocket. It was then removed for loading and the lens distance scale taped.
  22. How long are you planning to keep it? A few months, or even years at a pinch, is no problem, just keep it cool and dry. But don't refrigerate or freeze it. Unless the humidity is controlled and the cans sealed you may lock in moisture which will wreak havoc when it is opened.
  23. I think Hunter is politely suggesting that you don't queer the seller's pitch. Don't put people off his lens without good reason, unless you are putting yourself forward as some sort of consumer champion, and I suspect the readers of this forum know exactly what they are doing. The mere existence of cheaper alternatives isn't a good reason
  24. A welding arc is as hot as the Sun. Rocket exhaust is nothing like as bright so don't worry. On an ordinary Super-8 camera the viewfinder prism is in front of the iris, so stopping down doesn't dim the view. That would only affect an interchangeable- lens camera such as a Beaulieu.
  25. I'm no expert, but I would imagine arcs were struck between setups, if not between takes. So the film may just have got the protocol wrong.
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