double8

[samuli]

my friend found an old double8 camera from russia, and some film for it..
we have been shooting super8 but never double8 so i would like to know something
about this.. like from the beginning.. dont even know how to put the film inside the camera..
some link to some site with illustrated tutorial on this would be gooooood

[jukkasil]

my friend found an old double8 camera from russia, and some film for it..
we have been shooting super8 but never double8 so i would like to know something
about this.. like from the beginning.. dont even know how to put the film inside the camera..
some link to some site with illustrated tutorial on this would be gooooood

This next text is in Finnish (sorry):

Hei Samuli!

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[portosuper8]

Well, the first thing to do is to find out what camera is that. Assuming it might be a quarz double8 machine it won't be hard to work with it. I have a quarz mechanical double-super8 camera and it wasn't very hard to learn how to load it. You can buy the fomapan reversal b/w film and start shooting. There are many stores selling that film, like AndecFilmtechnik in germany, and they also develop the film.

for some images go to

http://www.geocities.com/russiancamera

[studiocarter]

Your tale prompted me to send in an instruction page from my regular8mm teaching days. We used Bell & Howell 220, 252 cameras and the like ($10each or less) for animation. I used them for filmaking.
The first attempt to upload failed because of heavy traffic. Please delete or ignore the file with no space in the name; LoadingR8.zip and download the file with the space in the name: Loading R8.zip

ftp://ftp.filmshooting.com/upload/manuals/

Film in these cameras is easily manipulated. We loaded with old film till good in the light and then went on to load with eyes closed then into film bags. I developed a way to film single shots of a certain length, flip the film over and film another, pull the strip out of the camera and develop it in a little can on a 110 reel. Then, armed with the new information gleaned from instant developing I shot some more film. All the shots were spliced together for the film. Lots of tests were made in this way for exposure and for development.