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For the past week or so I’ve been experimenting with loading Tri-X and Vision3 50D in to very old single 8 cartridges. My technique is pretty straight forward; I simply pull the out of date 1960’s/1970’s Fuji film out of the cartridge, cut it at both ends (leaving about an inch attached to the spools) I then use tape splices to attach the Kodak film and wined it back in to the single 8 cartridge (in a changing bag of coarse), so far it seems to be working pretty well! I’m putting about 25ft of film in to each cartridge as the thickness of the Kodak base doesn’t allow for fitting a full 50ft into a Fuji cartridge. So, as it stands the contents of 1 super8 cart = 2 single 8 carts. My question is: dose anyone have any suggestions about the best way of having my reloaded cartridges processed? My first concern is about potentially having to pay for processing per cartridge and not per foot of film (like I would with 16mm) , this would effectively double my lab costs; while I don’t at all mind doing this for my test films; in the long term this doesn’t make much financial sense. Would it be worth my while to empty my exposed film on to one big spool, stick it in a can and send that to the lab instead of a stack of reloaded cartridges? If I were to do this what would be the preferred method of joining the separate lengths of film together? Would I be correct in my assumption that tape splices would be at risk of dissolving in the baths? Also, on a slightly unrelated note, dose anyone know what's going on with single 8 in general? Wittner has sold out of all their color stock and has no current plans to get any more, Retro Enterprises (are they still open???) seems to also be out of stock although there’s something on their Japanese website about more coming soon, dose anyone know anything about this? thanks

dose anyone have any experience with an outfit based in Lille called 'Super 8 France'? unless I'm mistaken they seem to offer processing for Fuji R25n in house with a three week turnaround Also, dose anyone know of anywhere in Europe where I can order some single 8 Cinevia 100D? A friend is going to South Africa next month and I was wanting to lend her my as yet unused Marine8, getting film for the thing is proving to be an uphill struggle :(