Anybody at all shot, processed and projected new cartridges?

[S8 Booster]

Anybody at all shot, processed and projected new improved K40 Carts?

What are the results?

Seems like no one yet has shot & developed the new carts or possibly the results were not good so they do not want to post it?

Hiding and guarding them as if they were sound striped film?

I am on my way to shoot one but it will not be ready for evaluation in a month or so.

regards

[David M. Leugers]

I just shot a roll of Kodachrome 40 - the new batch. It ran very quietly through both my Sankyo doing time lapse and my Nikon for some static shots done at 24fps. I mailed it today to Kodak, will take a few weeks to get back. I'll let everyone know how it turned out. I am going to shoot up to 8 rolls in the next week while on a trip so I hope it is good.

[Pedro]

I´ve shot another test roll out of the last 7 rolls Kodak returned to me. Mostly triplet shots and titles. The results are as steady as never during the last years. The rest of the films I pretend to shoot in Summer. I really have no money, to waste all for shooting only test films. I know the guy that had made the field tests of the improoved cart for Kodak, he has shot far over 10 carts and he told me that all results are super steady. So I think I can trust and keep my own test limited to this one test roll. The results really are far better than even an older cart that I would had considered to be o.k.
Pedro

[Old Uncle Barry]

:?
Yes,and with no problems at all.In fact just like all the other cartridges shot over the past forty years-and yes I have shot these so called jittery batch-number cartridges.Have I been lucky or was it the fact that I shot with a clockwork camera?? Now theres a thing!

[S8 Booster]

Thanks for the feedback.

It seems that a brief summary confirms that the new cartridges are working well independantly of any visual details that may differ and that the "good" production numbers confirms good carts?

Barry, do you mean that your clockwork cam did not bother about the bad cartridges but simply ran the them perfectly as if they were good with no jitter as a result? That is pretty good?

Did they make an abormal sound still?

Time due to retire battery operated cameras? "Out of date"?

regards

[mattias]

i'm shooting a few carts this weekend for my "midsummer in leksand documentary", complete with folk dance, midnight skinny dipping and way too much absolut. i'll let you know the results. ;-)

/matt

[MovieStuff]

i'm shooting a few carts this weekend for my "midsummer in leksand documentary", complete with folk dance, midnight skinny dipping and way too much absolut. i'll let you know the results. ;-)

/matt

The results of the absolut or the cartridges?

I think it is safe to say that one will show definate signs of jitter and instability. ;)

Roger

[S8 Booster]

Thanks Matt.

Will do some shooting at midsummer night myself but I plan to mainly use the Pro8mm 250D neg film to see how far it can go. Technically it might almost be a "shoot around the clock" film stock with the cam in XL mode here in Southern Scandinavia on Midsummer if it is not overcast.

Might do a test with the V500T/320? neg too.

Have done some "dry" tests with the 250D at late night (23:00) and it is still enough light to shoot outdoor. The sun sets approx at 22:30 now where I live.

Wonder how the Provia 400 would have worked out?

Anyway, can not guarantee "steadycam" takes me either, even with Pro8 carts.

[Cheezy]

I recently shot several K40 cartridges with my S207XL, S709XL and S715XL Bauer cameras and they are steady as rock...

[David M. Leugers]

I just got back my Kodachrome film from Kodak and the time lapse shot is rock steady. The last few feet of film shot at 24fps with a Nikon camera I wanted to test was good also. 8)

[shoot1st]

How can you tell the improved K40 from the old? Is there anything on the packaging?

[S8 Booster]

Just finished my first K40 cartridge of the improved series but I have not developed it yet. However, the mechanical operation is impressive. It runs so smooth that only a gentle sound is made by the cam and nothing from the cart.

I have never experienced so smooth operation with silent film before, The old (good) silents have always made some uneven sound on my cam but the new ones are just perfect.

If it turns out half as good as it sounds it will be great.

Actually I started to shoot a 1998 Sound cart too. It sounds very good to but there is always more noise from my cam with the sound carts. Still very good.

The new K40 cartridge was shot in parallell with a PRO8MM 50D neg film under very intense but very difficult daylight conditions. Will be interesting to se how they compare.


shoot1st, look at previous posts to check this out.

shoot1st
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 9:58 am    
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How can you tell the improved K40 from the old? Is there anything on the packaging?

R

[S8 Booster]

Got my 1st back today. ROCK STEADY and what an image quality!!!!

(Not that the image quality may have improved but it simply IS THAT GOOD.)

TNX KODAK!!

R

[mattias]

sorry, i forgot to reply before. my three cartridges were rock steady too, at least up until the second half of the last one... :-)

/matt

[S8 Booster]

sorry, i forgot to reply before. my three cartridges were rock steady too, at least up until the second half of the last one...

/matt

Just a question Matt, could there be a "low battery" problem that caused it?

I experienced this problem in the past with the 60m cartridges on my Elmo 1012S-XL. It became very sensitive on battery power with the 60ms so they often started up well and finished with some to bad jitter. Basically a new set of batteries would be required each time for a new 60 if it was shot sequentially over a long period of time.



R