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- Tue Mar 06, 2018 8:34 am
- Forum: Small gauge film forum
- Topic: Damaged (flooded) 8mm film
- Replies: 6
- Views: 670
Re: Damaged (flooded) 8mm film
Have washed many films, flooded footage full of mud, you know, fine sand and else. Now your film seems to be damaged by the mold (fungus) in such a manner that the gelatine bond to the base is attacked. Coating coming off is about the worst state. You cannot fix the image before cleaning. You can tr...
- Sat Jan 20, 2018 12:19 pm
- Forum: Small gauge film forum
- Topic: Bell and Howell 16mm
- Replies: 1
- Views: 521
- Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:17 am
- Forum: Small gauge film forum
- Topic: Even a reporter for the NYTimes doesn’t know the difference between film and Video
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1029
Re: Even a reporter for the NYTimes doesn’t know the difference between film and Video
What is New York Times?


- Fri Jan 05, 2018 2:47 pm
- Forum: Small gauge film forum
- Topic: Hit the jackpot!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1417
Re: Hit the jackpot!
Got my Bell & Howell Filmo Straight Eight today. The Mytal on it has full closing iris. Only spools are missing.
- Wed Jan 03, 2018 1:55 pm
- Forum: Small gauge film forum
- Topic: Film stock for Univex model A8
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4970
Re: Film stock for Univex model A8
Most everything with the Univex-8 cameras is the other way round than with the others. Main frame or housing is Zamak alloy Film chamber is on the right hand side Film spools not interchangeable, not even with Bell & Howell Filmo Straight Eight Winding key revolves with down-running spring Inverted ...
- Sun Dec 17, 2017 1:05 pm
- Forum: Small gauge film forum
- Topic: Film stock for Univex model A8
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4970
Re: Film stock for Univex model A8
Hey, Wade Your Univex has a governor like all other spring-driven cameras. Without a governor the mechanism would speed up to over 150 frames a second or more, most probably loosing some teeth in the gear train. What does not form part of the mechanics is a positive stop to a spring barrel like a nu...
- Fri Dec 15, 2017 8:28 am
- Forum: Small gauge film forum
- Topic: 16mm
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2711
Re: 16mm
Your camera must have been tinkered with or it got a blow.
A technician can adjust the prism unit within five minutes,
at least I can.
A technician can adjust the prism unit within five minutes,
at least I can.
- Wed Dec 13, 2017 6:05 pm
- Forum: Small gauge film forum
- Topic: 16mm
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2711
Re: 16mm
Only before I return to the subject of 16mm: The announced Super-8 camera does have a reflex system to divert light onto a sensor, from whose data a monitor image is created. The early Kodak Instamatic M2 and M4 had a simple peep-through parallax finder, the M6 and the vast majority of Super-8 camer...
- Wed Dec 06, 2017 8:17 am
- Forum: Small gauge film forum
- Topic: 16mm
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2711
Re: 16mm
According to a Kodak K-100 ad in Popular Science of June 1956 it runs for 40 feet on a wind. https://books.google.ch/books?id=MS0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA199&lpg=RA1-PA199&dq=kodak+k-100+camera+spring&source=bl&ots=XPys3dP0SQ&sig=TmjnRPyHmZ9xuiJOzmPXnCyGK9w&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwisye256_TXAhXE0xoKHV8DC5UQ...
- Sat Nov 25, 2017 7:57 pm
- Forum: Small gauge film forum
- Topic: 16mm
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2711
Re: 16mm
That’s a good one!
- Fri Nov 24, 2017 7:39 am
- Forum: Small gauge film forum
- Topic: 16mm
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2711
Re: 16mm
If you had some money left, you might buy a tripod for a change.
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Advocatus diavoli
- Tue Nov 14, 2017 1:26 pm
- Forum: Small gauge film forum
- Topic: What have you been working on lately?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 9270
Re: What have you been working on lately?
Paillard-Bolex H cameras can perform comparably to professional cameras at speeds not greater than about 30 fps. In the higher range a registration-pin design beats them. Paillard used the term registration claw , I find that dangerous, but they also used the expression professional amateur from 193...
- Sun Nov 12, 2017 11:08 am
- Forum: Small gauge film forum
- Topic: What have you been working on lately?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 9270
Re: What have you been working on lately?
Bought a Filmo 70-DL off eBay. Wouldn’t budge. After removal of the front the mechanism run quietly down as expected. The shutter was stuck, after a night in light oil I could turn it free and lift it out. It is important to use only oil free from resins and acids. The high-speed governor, the shift...
- Sun Nov 05, 2017 9:19 am
- Forum: Small gauge film forum
- Topic: What have you been working on lately?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 9270
Re: What have you been working on lately?
Gave a complete overhaul to a Zeiss-Ikon Movikon 16 made in 1940. Took pictures, wrote an article about it, and published on a German forum. Want to translate or rather rewrite the text in French and English for a larger readership, but why? Because the camera enjoys an almost mythic reputation with...
- Thu Oct 26, 2017 6:26 pm
- Forum: Small gauge film forum
- Topic: Paillard Bolex - help??
- Replies: 3
- Views: 686
Re: Paillard Bolex - help??
Yeah, what you have is a Paillard-Bolex H-16 from around the mid-fifties with four good lenses, the normal focal length Kern Switar 25 mm, the wide-angle Kern Switar 10 mm, the moderate telephoto fast Switar 50 mm, and the long telephoto Yvar 150 mm. The lenses alone, if in good condition, are worth...