your favorite s8 color film stock
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your favorite s8 color film stock
So now that k40 is gone (and has been gone for a while now), whats everyone's super 8 color stock of choice? and why?
Yes, I'm bored, amuse me.
Yes, I'm bored, amuse me.
I guess it's the 50D from Spectra, for me. But it is expensive and strange looking and I've only shot two carts because I really don't know what to do with it. Likewise with the E64T shit and, since I don't use the negs, they aren't on my radar either.
That was, of course, one of the great things about K40 for me--it was easy, cheap, archival--I'd shoot anything and everything. I could freely experiment and play around to get all kinds of interesting footage. Now, I don't do that as much anymore.
And like I said, I don't have that much interest in color right now at all. Not just color cinematography, mind you. COLOR. Don't want to think about it. I guess I'm seeing the world in very clear BLACK and WHITE terms these days, if you get my drift.
So, I continue my extended and exclusive affair with the old lady Plus-X. She always does me right.
Tim
That was, of course, one of the great things about K40 for me--it was easy, cheap, archival--I'd shoot anything and everything. I could freely experiment and play around to get all kinds of interesting footage. Now, I don't do that as much anymore.
And like I said, I don't have that much interest in color right now at all. Not just color cinematography, mind you. COLOR. Don't want to think about it. I guess I'm seeing the world in very clear BLACK and WHITE terms these days, if you get my drift.
So, I continue my extended and exclusive affair with the old lady Plus-X. She always does me right.
Tim
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Re: your favorite s8 color film stock
200T and 100DEd wrote:So now that k40 is gone (and has been gone for a while now), whats everyone's super 8 color stock of choice? and why?
Yes, I'm bored, amuse me.
Mitch
100D
Because it does what I want from a film (apart from the archival properties).
It looks great on projection.
Because it does what I want from a film (apart from the archival properties).
It looks great on projection.
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Re: your favorite s8 color film stock
64TEd wrote:super 8 color stock of choice?
Pure economics. After buying film, paying for processing, paying for telecine and then adding in shipping costs, negative stocks cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 / cartridge. Plus the telecine houses don't want to do just one roll.Ed wrote:and why?
Now that I own a workprinter I can do my own telecine with reversal. That limits me to 64t or 100D DS8 from Schwind. At this point I'm still having problems with my Canon DS8 so 64T wins by default.
Yes, I am going to try to get the problems with my DS8 camera sorted out. At this point I don't know if the problem is the camera or me.
I seem to recall that someone posted that 100D carts are available from an offshore source. I'll have to look into that.
I can get 64T for $15 / cart and get it processed for $10 (I have not tried Wal-Mart yet). That's half the price of negative.
Actually I'm getting into B&W (Plus-X), again primarily for economic reasons. In a couple of years I hope to be processing it myself.
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