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by Mmechanic
Wed Apr 21, 2021 7:21 am
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: Were regular 8mm film synchronizers ever made?
Replies: 5
Views: 15309

Re: Were regular 8mm film synchronizers ever made?

You can wrap a length of clear leader around the drum of a 16-mm. synchronizer, stick adhesive tape to it. That will support the 8-mm. film.
by Mmechanic
Tue Dec 01, 2020 8:54 am
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: The Art of Super 8 (full documentary)
Replies: 6
Views: 48819

Re: The Art of Super 8 (full documentary)

Can anybody tell me what should be the art with specific film formats? I find that title ridiculous. Super-8 isn’t art by itself, due to its technical imperfections. What a nonsense. Super-8 was a business model aimed at everybody (which worked and evolved to a billion $ business), an ecologically w...
by Mmechanic
Fri Aug 07, 2020 7:15 am
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: Kodak K100
Replies: 3
Views: 12488

Re: Kodak K100

The K-100 is prone to rust. Keep it dry.

Ciné-Kodaks follow the basic idea of the original Kodak, an oblong box. They all stand well on the tripod, a feature sometimes missed with other motion-picture cameras.
by Mmechanic
Sun Jun 14, 2020 3:44 pm
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: Welcome back!
Replies: 14
Views: 68563

Re: Welcome back!

Takk så mye!
by Mmechanic
Sun Jun 14, 2020 3:42 pm
Forum: Site comments and discussions
Topic: Site modifications
Replies: 2
Views: 25769

Re: Site modifications

Hey, Andreas, just found the forum back operational. Thanks! Marvellous! Congratulations
by Mmechanic
Wed Dec 05, 2018 5:13 pm
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: Archiving
Replies: 7
Views: 64865

Re: Archiving

Are you planning three color b/w separation archives? There are various versions. You could have a set of three strips or a three times longer one with the sequence 1R-1G-1B-2R-2G-2B-and so on. Half-thick base films are on the market, I have used them for the first time in 2005 in the 16mm format (...
by Mmechanic
Fri Nov 30, 2018 6:56 pm
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: Archiving
Replies: 7
Views: 64865

Re: Archiving

What could have made you to have film duplicates made? I’m asking that because I plan to start a business right for such commissions. If you could buy the world’s best contact duplicates of which every frame was exposed completely stationary and located according to the standard relative to the perf...
by Mmechanic
Mon Nov 26, 2018 8:52 am
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: Bolex H16RX and FOMApan R100: does it run OK or not?
Replies: 13
Views: 38419

Re: Bolex H16RX and FOMApan R100: does it run OK or not?

Ma sì, Luigi, you can buy Kodak Vision 3, 50 ISO daylight color negative film in Double-Eight, 105 feet, for $135 from Dennis Toeppen. http://toeppenfilm.com/ordernow.html
by Mmechanic
Sun Nov 25, 2018 10:05 am
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: Bolex H16RX and FOMApan R100: does it run OK or not?
Replies: 13
Views: 38419

Re: Bolex H16 and FOMA: it's not the thickness of the filmbase

I have measured the widths as well: FOMA is 14.980 and Kodak is 14.910 - standard stated 14.950 +0,025 -0,025 What?! You must have mistyped. You meant 15,98 mm and 15,91 mm. ISO 69 says 15,95 mm ± 0,025. 15,910 mm would be too narrow. When you subtract 0,025 mm from 15,950 mm you have 15,925 mm as ...
by Mmechanic
Tue Nov 20, 2018 7:43 am
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: Kodak Film Prices
Replies: 58
Views: 1172325

Re: Kodak Film Prices

doug wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 3:46 pmPresumably you mean movie 35mm cameras ?
I do. I have a Bell & Howell Eyemo 71-C.
by Mmechanic
Sun Nov 11, 2018 8:45 am
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: Kodak Film Prices
Replies: 58
Views: 1172325

Re: Kodak Film Prices

The trick is to do volume, Oh, yes, and from that I don’t understand why they don’t open all the valves. Super-8 is DS-8 in an earlier step and that is a 16mm strip another step before. So Kodak, as we’ve already said, could offer new Ektachrome as 16mm film, in Double-Eight, and DS-8, too. They ar...
by Mmechanic
Thu Nov 08, 2018 7:50 am
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: Ektachrome in hand!
Replies: 7
Views: 52524

Re: Ektachrome in hand!

She was ravishing?
by Mmechanic
Sun Nov 04, 2018 11:29 am
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: The Future of Film
Replies: 6
Views: 26231

Re: The Future of Film

Exactly the same here. Cinema with film was murdered. The initial experience, flammable perforated black-and-white film projected with carbon arc light at 16 fps or so is even more appealing once known. That is how cinema grew up. The light palaces, the ubiquitous urban distraction and stimulation. ...
by Mmechanic
Sun Nov 04, 2018 11:09 am
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: Kodak Film Prices
Replies: 58
Views: 1172325

Re: Kodak Film Prices

As Doug says Super-8 is no more the “super” experience. I am a child of the cold war and still have a feel for the explosive mixture of that right-and-wrong, all-embracing, and fatuous mindset of the sixties. It was easy to suggest men landing on Moon because everybody was in tune. It was simple to ...
by Mmechanic
Fri Nov 02, 2018 6:33 am
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: Kodak Film Prices
Replies: 58
Views: 1172325

Re: Kodak Film Prices

You don’t necessarily have to reduce costs and prices. The 20th century proves explicitly that customers can be won by clever marketing, sometimes even aggressive publicity. Take a look at the home movie equipment industry. A Paillard-Bolex H camera was sold for more than $5,000 over all the years, ...