A year ago today!

[Shanec8mm]

Kodak introduced Ektachrome 100D in the Super 8 cartridge on this date last year.
Here is a link to that announcement.
http://motion.kodak.com/US/en/motion/ab ... pr06_1.htm
So with this in mind I wonder how sales for Super 8 have been for Kodak after a year? I shot a roll of 100D last Summer and was blown away by the colors. The footage that I shot was at a pool and the blues from the water just popped out. amazing colors. I did a few things though before shooting the film. I used a neutral density filter that reduced the light X2. Also I needed to increase the aperture on my Minolta by 1 1/3 fstops. The results were outstanding. I project my films so the images looked really nice on the big screen. Grain was not an issue at all. Also recently I rigged my camera to compensate for the exposure automatically so all my shots will be 1 1/3 higher fstop. I shoot with a Minolta Autopak 8 D6 which underexposes 100D by at least 1 fstop. It reads the film as 160asa. So what was my trick? I glued the film sensing pins closed until the camera read 1 1/3 higher fstop. I think I am explaining this correctly. With the experiments I have done 100D looks best when overexposed slightly. Skin tones are much more natural looking. The film also comes out nice and bright.
I am getting married in June and Ektachrome 100D will be my film of choice! I can't wait to see the results!!!

[carllooper]

I'm waiting on the return of my first roll of Super8, (also E100D) shot in over 30 years, and thoroughly enjoying an ecstatic mixture of anticipation, excitement, required patience, and amplified spiritual well being, that film making insists on instilling in my soul.

I walk down the street looking at the way light bounces of the trees, the dirt, the grass, the flowers, the wooden fences, the clouds, the graffiti on a deserted petrol station, it is all so much more tangible. So beautiful.

Carl