Filmshooting

Akihabara 8O

Hello, Paul cotto.

Yes, it's damn expensive to shoot on 16mm and larger format in Japan.
Like you mentioned, it is about 4 times more expensive than the USA for processing. The price of the film stock in Japan is about the same in the USA, though.

It's much cheaper to send films to the labs in the ...

It's out of topic, but. . .
Kodak,Japan rep. told me that Ektachrome has more sales than K40 in Japan because there is one lab in Tokyo that process Ektachrome very quickly(E-6, though).

taking pictures by digital camera is really good for the continuity work.

SPD card(solid state memory card) is announced at the NAB 2003 by Panasonic. Panasonic is planning to ship them around Spring 2004.

Sony:bule ray disk VS. Panasonic: SPD card????

MAX. Transfer Speed x20/DVCPRO data(25Mbps)
PCMCIA Card interface
rewritable for about 30000 times

I think this small ...

Panasonic will produce SPD camcorder next year.
SPD card is made of 4 x 1GB SD cards and the size of SPD card is the same as PC card.
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TO S8 Booster;

I think it is sold as DIY kits. You can kindly ask him to sell these parts. I don't know exactly how much these parts cost because I was the first person to post on his BBS and he gave me these parts for free.

I think there are 2 sets availble.
1.- basic parts set (5000 Yen/about ...

http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~s8mmeiga/page025.html has been updated.
Now, He is making the adapter for Elmo 1012 S-XL and will report it on the website when it's done.

http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~s8mmeiga/page025.html
has been updated.

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