A new book: The Single 8 Story
60 years of Single-8! FUJIFILM's film format is celebrating a milestone anniversary in spring 2025. Jürgen Lossau therefore wants to present an illustrated book with all the cameras from Fujica,…
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Lubricate sintered bearings correctly
Shafts in projectors and cameras are often held by sintered bearings - and nowadays these are usually completely dry and often resinous on the inside. Adding a few drops of…
Bauer T1S – Changing the worm gear
The worm wheel on this projector tends to break, but an excellent replacement part is available from van Eck. The installation is not (yet) described in detail anywhere, but I…
When the tape drove the Bolex
Filmmaker and Bolex collector Richard Clement recently showed a rare piece of film technology: the SYNCHROFLEX is a tape recorder that not only works with perforated 16mm tapes, but also…
Original Wolfen NC 400 as Super 8?
The British provider GAUGE FILMS reports on Instagram that the first tests of the Orwo "Original Wolfen" made into Super 8 material are currently underway. NC 400 color negative material.…
Colorgrading of color negative films with Davinci Resolve
In the following I would like to describe how I convert scanned color negative films with the free software Davinci Resolve into color-correct, beautiful positives. There are many paths here,…
Photopia 2023
The Photopia trade show in Hamburg is slowly maturing into a Photokina replacement. But actually much better than Photokina, because this year both Click & Surr from Berlin and Khrome…
A new product for better stability
Kodak Chemicals surprises with a new product that is supposed to improve an old problem of the Super 8 system: Poor image stability, which can increasingly become a problem, especially…
Super 8: “AGFA – A color picture evolves”.
...let's continue with part 2 of these unknown films that Agfa-Gevaert must have sent to dealers back in the late 70s, or at least planned to do so. This flick…
AGFA – The Hobby Lab
A Super 8 promotional film from Agfa-Gevaert, ca. 1979 This wonderful promotional film for dealers was found by film friend Peter Willems at the film fair in Deidesheim last year,…