Filmshooting

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...

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...

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...

A Bell & Howell Filmo 8 viewer might be worth a try.
Cleverly the film gate is on top for easy use and cleaning, the hot light bulb at the rear.

There has never been a professional viewer for Regular 8 film. It’s the smallest and most mass produced of all film formats. Maybe Super-8 was still more mass made but also full of plastic. You have the Zeiss-Ikon Moviscop for 8mm film which is one of the better. The Minette is also okay. Don’t expe...

http://www.thephoblographer.com/2017/01 ... odachrome/

Ask.

Dan, your camera might well be 44 years old, the Ektasound system got released in 1973. Nobody can hinder you tinkering with the thing. My advice is to throw it away. You lost $8. A plastic product from the darkest time of cybernetics If the film is Ektachrome it can still be developed, process E-6....

Oh, I forgot the filter, James. If your camera doesn’t have a slot, you cannot use a slide-in filter. Paillard added that feature in 1954, I think.
http://www.bolexcollector.com/cameras/h16supreme.html

James and Luis, I have only now seen your posts and should like to give some answers. Although available for little money today the Paillard-Bolex H are cameras for the engaged amateur and retain a useful value of several hundred Dollars. The point is that they should be understood and maintained. A...

Yes, I understand a three-elements lens by triplet. The Cooke triplet lens. The point about cleanliness with photographic lenses is not dust but veil. One has to avoid grease in any case. I sometimes wear nitrile fingerstalls or cotton gloves with larger lenses, the small ones I pick with tweezers a...

Yesterday I disassembled a clip-on mount 1½ inch, f/3.5 lens for Bell & Howell Filmo 8s. It bears the name TELATE and is a Wollensak. It was also available with the ⅝"-32 thread. B. & H. defined an A, a B, a C, and a D mount for their cameras, the latter two are better known. This lens ...

Reassembled a cheap italian Double-Eight film camera after complete pull-apart. It smells a little from the phenolic resin glue with which the decorative covers were put on. That stuff is tenacious!

How right you are! I know from experience that Four to Three literally pulls one into the picture, the more so the bigger it’s projected. Wide screen always remains rather before one, the more so the wider the ratio is made. Wide screens need to become very big in order to compensate for that effect...

doug wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2017 10:45 amI know Mmechanic will throw up his hands in horror at all this widening talk

Couple of years ago I should have gone berserk but I’m getting older and, hopefully, riper. Each one can do with her or his camera what she/he wants.

Wrote about the camera here https://www.filmvorfuehrer.de/topic/248 ... herkamera/. Please let me know whether a translation is needed.