ARTHUR OLESZCZUK Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 Hello everybody, I´m new to this forum, but maybe someone out there can help... We are two filmmakers from Hamburg / Germany and we would like to experiment with old Filmstocks from Russia, old Black & White ORWO and SVEMA materials from 1992 We own an Aaton A-Minima and the first loaded spool did not worked the magazine and the camera shred the Film... I´ve read some posts here where that happened wit XTR aaton had someone worked with non Kodak Material on A-Minima? thanks in advance Arthur & Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freya Black Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 Well it could be that there is a fault with the camera but also I seem to remember that A-Minima films are a different wind to normal Kodak films. I assume you are making your own loads and not using the official Kodak A-Minima loads? Freya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARTHUR OLESZCZUK Posted August 4, 2013 Author Share Posted August 4, 2013 Hello Freya we winded the film like it should be ( B-side ) with the emulsion out, into the Kodak Spools, what do you mean with own loads and not using the official Kodak loads? thanx Arthur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Burke Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 It is most likely the film and not the camera. As you already have read that ORWO in particular doesn't work with Aaton. It is the perf pitch, slightly too close or too far apart. With my LTR, it runs for about 15 seconds then jams. This is the 100 speed. I guess the 400 speed works better, but I have not tried it yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Brooks Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 There have been a few threads about this: some folks at a US lab did a pitch comparison between Orwo and Kodak. The Orwo has an irregular pitch length, and these folks were shooting the stock in both Aaton and Arri cameras with bad results: mostly jams and bad camera noise. Orwo needs to manufacture differently for the stock to run on more precise sync cameras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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