So Andreas the good news - according to Alexa - filmshooting.com is the nine hundred and thirteen thousandth and twenty-second most popular web site in the world.
I didn't even crack the top ten million - mango-a-gogo.com is the nineteen millionth four hundred and eight thousandth six hundred and ninety-eigth most popular site in the world
awand wrote:Allthough this site might have been even "bigger" a few years ago.
I've always been fascinated by that statistic on the Index page which states: "Most users ever online was 305 on Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:46 am."
Is that true? Were there actually 305 people on this board at one time? I think I joined later that year in July 2005, and remember that it was alive and kicking pretty good. But 305 people?! That must have been a madhouse.
I guess we can all wistfully remember that time as "the great Super 8 renaissance of the mid-2000s." What has happened? :?
5 to 10 years ago -Super 8 offered alot that video didn't - including higher resolution. Now you can get HD camcorders for just over $500 - the dirt cheap kodachrome with processing included is no more.
5 - 10 years ago I shot a feature on Super 8 - as did Mitch and Rick -- people were hacking and working out all sorts of ways to get the most out of their rigs - including video splits and anamorphics - not to forget Dave's Super Mag attempts with 400 foot rolls of Super 8, Paul's home slitting and perforatoring machine and the constant talk of new cameras being made -- hell I was even keen on getting a new Super 16 camera going.....and that Roger guy was talking about building some kind of home transfer system ;-) (Well at least one of the ideas took off!!)
Nowadays it's just too hard to ignore the ease, cheapness and great quality of HD - especially with the DSLR's and the 35mm DOF properties.
Yes film still looks better - but......I think we're in an ever shrinking backwater.....it won't dry up all together but I can't see it being as active as it ever was -- I think it probably could if we could get really cheap film and processing again
Scot
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etimh wrote:
I've always been fascinated by that statistic on the Index page which states: "Most users ever online was 305 on Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:46 am."
Is that true? Were there actually 305 people on this board at one time? I think I joined later that year in July 2005, and remember that it was alive and kicking pretty good. But 305 people?! That must have been a madhouse.
I guess we can all wistfully remember that time as "the great Super 8 renaissance of the mid-2000s." What has happened? :?
Tim
Well, 305, it would have been measured over a sliding time window. Maybe there was a reference on a very popular site or something. Even today there always seem to be a few guests and robots but there are never more then 10 accounts active.
A bit of problem are the eternal topics which come back again and again. So reading people get bored and posters get fed up responding to these. Furthermore the lure of the manuals deposit is gone and there is no other content which attracts readers.
What is the mid 2000's 2500? Then the best is still to come.
BTW The costs per minute put off a lot of people but I don't think Ektachrome 100 with Andec processing is so much more expensive then fresh K40 at the time. Even compared to relative regular costs at the high point by the end of the 70-ies it isn't all that more expensive. And Andec is much faster then Kodak
aj wrote:
BTW The costs per minute put off a lot of people but I don't think Ektachrome 100 with Andec processing is so much more expensive then fresh K40 at the time.
No, that's not the case - I used to be able to buy and process K40 for a total of $15 Australian dollars in the early 2000's -- I think I got a deal for most people it was $18 - - and this was including postage -- but the Ektachrome plus processing from Andec is $34 Australia dollars - this is without postage too.
Of course this is cheap compared to other Super 8 stocks at the moment - but not as cheap as it used to be.
Scot
Read my science fiction novel The Forest of Life at https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01D38AV4K
I well remember that time, I got into super-8 then. It was really wild even here in Finland, the Finnish main forums for hobbyist & semi pro videographers got a very active super-8 user base from 2003-2005. Now it seems I'm almost the only one writing there, aside from the random posters asking for help with some projector or camera...
I guess it's the iDSLR times we are living. Everything is cool, shiny, polished and trendy hip. And when the retro feeling takes one over, well, there is an app for iphone for that. :roll:
But even then, I feel my film activity is now greater than ever. I own cameras I before only dreamed of owning, I have raw super-8 & 16mm film in the fridge, 10 cartridges returning from Andec and just waiting for a good chance to have them telecined.
I'm also informed that Montaasi, a student cine organization here in southern Finland, which also owns several super-8 cameras, is renting them out very often. So there are many people shooting on super-8, they just aren't discussing it here ;) One good indicator is also Vimeo; if one searches for super-8 and looks at the latest uploads, there usually have been several new films uploaded within 24 hours. Neat, eh?
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I agree that cost is not the issue, when I started shooting reg 8 as a kid it was about 7 bucks a roll plus another 10 to develop and it took 3 weeks to get it back.
Video is cheap, easy, and popular, and those three together are the end of the conversation for most people.
Video also has audio built-in, and you can watch it on your TV right away. TV has much love in the world.
Ultimately I think that like vinyl in the record-collecting world, there will alwasy be a place for small format film for artist and enthusiasts.
GRRR
2500? Then the best is still to come.