Filmshooting

might be old news, but you can get both the film and the foma chemicals from http://www.fotoimpex.de

It's a german company, but they ship worldwide, as far as I know. Good luck! I'm going to order some foma regular8 soon, and am really curious about the results!

jean

i read an interesting article in a german newspaper praising s8. One of the ironic points the author made was recalling the s8 family evenings, when the film of someones birthday party was an awful, but short 3min, or max 9min session. Nowadays, he's suffering a awful 6hour real-time video (being im...

folks, thanks to all again for the information! I'm really happy to hear that I basically can get away with adapters made vor videocams, and will keep an eye on the cmounts in ebay.

thanks!

..ahhh :idea: thanks for the info!

Sorry if this is a beginners question beaten to death somwhere, but at least my first search attempts did not leverage much. I'm planning to shoot some wintersports action, and to exaggerate the illusion of speed with some perspective distortion, thought that wideangle shots would be useful. I then ...

coming from photography, I'm a little clueless about the shutterangle everyone's talking about. 8O When using an external meter, I was using it as I do with my photogear, after looking up the shutter speed specific to the fps. I'm using a bolex d8l, and beaulieu - don't hey work like still cameras, ...

wow, thanks for the links! The first one could solve the problem of aligning the frames - what seemed to me the most tedious part of the job. Does anyone have a suggestion how to advance the film frame by frame, and have the frames always in the same place? I know, any projector does this, but I see...

i confess, that's the answer I was hoping for :wink: Indeed, up to now I only used fleamarket S8 gear in the 15 euro pricerange, and probably never saw a film done with a decent camera. Good cameras were very expensive in the 70's, I guess! Well, now I'm having a 4008 in my hands, ready to be sent i...

thanks for your response! Yes, you're right - I did not take into account the size of the s8 frame itself, and the result being almost the same as regular video.. well, that would not be worth the effort. On the other hand, keep in mind the color depth and dynamic range, which should deliver a image...

that's the scanner:
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professi ... ntro.jhtml

I had an idea while reading the telecine articles here on this site. How would it be to have the film scanned directly in a dedicated film scanner? Unfortunately, nobody seems to care for this admittingly small segment. But film scanners do exist, and the one siting on my table gave me the an idea. ...

Scot's started a thread some days ago, where he asked if anyone could tell which stills are from film, and which from video. In the responses, most people agreed that the soft focus, together with grain, make the typical super8 look. Hmm, having a look at my super8 films, the first thing i noticed t...

Hi Bjorn, I've been using a homebrew battery for the 5008, given the huge battery it was no probem to fit fresh aaa cells. I fully charged them, and measured the voltage - everything seems ok, the camera runs fine, bun aperture always closes down to the smallest.. With the 4008, I have one wchich se...

Hello everyone, I'm having some beaulieu cameras, with all share the same defect - autoexposure does not work, as soon as I press the shutter, the apertue closes to the samllest aperture, regardless of the light. Since 3 cameras (2x 4008, 1x 5008) show the same defect, I presume that this is a not s...