Filmshooting

I think Sergio Leone would have liked this. Didn't he shoot his spaghetti westerns using 2 perf Techniscope?

Roger, thanks for the good expanation as to why a lot of CGI is not as convincing as it was years back. It is true that a lot of CG creatures and characters move and flit about the screen without real physics seeming to affect them. I have wondered why the digital input device is no longer used. It ...

My first ever super 8 cam was a XL 400. A quality camera indeed. Very clear optics, and the intervalometer/ time lapse was a lot of fun to shoot with. It's good to know they work well with 64 asa film, might make me try it out with as I still have the camera and it still works.

Here is something of interest to people who love film and what it can do.
The new issue of American Cinematographer covers the filming of the upcoming Batman movie, The Dark Knight. What is exciting is that the makers of this movie have used the Imax format to film about 30 minutes of it, while the ...

A lot of the dual 8 projectors have the inching knob. I have a couple of Sears Dual 8 projectors which handle both standard 8mm and super 8, and they have this single frame advancing knob. Bell & Howell have a lot of dual 8 projectors, and they are readily available on eBay.

this movie looks like it was inspired by an novel which came out in the '90s called MEG. Steve Alten is the author, and has written two sequels to it, and they are really pretty good. There has been effort put into getting a big budget movie made based on the novel, but so far it has not yet ...

One thing I did years ago was when Kenner toys had their little hand crank viewers of Star Wars. Their cartidges would not last a long time, as the little plastic nub pin thing that caught the sprocket holes would wear out. So I opened up the cartridge, and since it was Super 8 film, I put the movie ...

I have just obtained a super 8 camera that can handle a full range of ASA, including 64 and 100. It is a GAF 600 XI, which comes with a Chinon 1:7 lens, with a zoom range of 8 to 48mm. This camera lists the following for its film speed range: daylight, 16, 25, 40, 64, 100, 160, and artificial light ...

Han Solo thought he was talking to a couple of small town hicks who didn't know much of anything. So, he knowingly just threw some jargon around to try and impress them. If you look at Obi Wan's reaction, you can see that he knows this.

When I have sent film to Dwaynes via WalMart I write in the special services box, Kodachrome slides. The envelope gets sent to the right place, and once at Dwaynes, they obviously know its super 8 and process it accordingly. Since the price for slide film developing is the same as movies, there ...

Thanks to regualar 8 boosting by super 8 man on his website, over the winter months I have been able to aquire a little stable of standard 8 cameras. In fact, years ago I had a Bell and Howell 8mm camera that I was able to use once, and I really was pleased with the results. It could do slow motion ...

There is a way to rewind film in a super 8 cartridge, and it goes like this.
Put tape over the drive wheel located inside the camera. This is the wheel that turns the reel which is inside the cartridge. By taping this off, the camera will advance the film by using the pulldown claw alone, and so the ...

I have a eumig 860, or is it 680, I can't remeber exactly. Anyway, when the time exposure is on the camera has a seperate meter that controls the exposure time. If I cover over the meter I can get about a 20 second exposure time out of it, which is great for night photography. I also have a Elmo ...

I love it! But he should have mentioned that Super 8 film is still available.

I have an ELMO super 104 camera, and I don't know if it's supposed to work this way or not, but, when a cable release is installed into the connection for single frame, the shutter stays open for as long as the cabel is pressed. Maybe my particular camera is kind of wonky, or maybe that's normal ...