Filmshooting

The Wollensak I have is a spool load camera

Thanks, it's good to have comments from someone who have used exactly the same type of stock as I'm intending to. Will watch out for those blues and greens, maybe shoot some scenes in an urban environment at first. I wonder if your fstop setting might have had something to do with the dark skin ...

Thanks Jörg, really appreciate this chart - am going to go through it and will let you know how I get on. I have hope for 50 ASA and maybe even 100 too because my father used this cam in the early 80's to shoot me as a toddler and this was long after Colour ASA 10 had been discontinued (my ...

I did get f-stop and fps mixed up in my original message yes, and the "m" was indeed a typo (not a great start to my first ever thread!). Thanks for your info re the "sunglasses" I will look into this more and see what I can find.

It's a Wollensak 8mm Model 43 by the way, here is a pic of it and the exposure dial

Hi everyone,
I've got an old double 8mm movie camera from the late 50's still in good working order. The exposure dial has a max setting of 16 fps. The manual states it will work with any double 8mm but later goes on to say it was designed for use with daylight color film ASA 10m. I'm a bit new to ...