All posts by Friedemann Wachsmuth

Am 25. Februar 2019 von 18:00 Uhr bis 21:00 Uhr veranstaltet die “Film Commission Region Stuttgart” (eine Einrichtung zur Wirtschaftsförderung in der Region Stuttgart) eines ihrer “Montagsseminare” – diesmal zum Thema analoger Film. Kameramann Kyrill Ahlvers und der Regisseur und Editor Thomas Bergmann, die 2018 das neue Labor Silbersalz-Film” gegründet haben (vorgestellt in “Cine 8-16” Nr. 46, S. 8) zeigen bei dieser Veranstaltug, wie perforierter Film sich in die moderne Produktionslandschaft integrieren lässt und geben Tipps zur händischen Entwicklung von Filmmaterial. Anmeldung erforderlich!

Kostenbeitrag: 15 Euro (Einsammlung in Bar am Abend der Veranstaltung)

Ort: Das Gutbrod, Friedrichstraße 10, 70174 Stuttgart

Kontakt: Petra Hilt-Hägele

Anyone developing color films is faced with the challenge of tempering chemistry as accurately as possible to the required temperature, usually 38°C (100.4 F). While chemistry bottles can be tempered quite easily with a sous vide precision cooker or a lab bain-marie, the Lomo tank itself cools down considerably during processing.

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German MDR’s “Mediathek” presents a beautiful, ten-minute short documentary about Orwo yesterday and today. There are glimpses into yesterday, today, dark rooms and a perforator in action can be seen as well.

Worth seeing – even though in German only…

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Everyone who works with the Lomo tanks probably knows the problem of film jamming and improper winding, often leading to double layers, which then do not get developed properly.

Using a turntable has been mentioned many times as a valuable help against these problems, since its much more uniform rotation makes it possible to easily load the Lomo reel within a few seconds.

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Die Anonymen Analogiker des Filmvorführerforums trafen sich auch 2015 für ein Wochenende in Kreuzberg, um ihrem Hobby zu frönen. Diesmal verteilte ich sechs S8-Kassetten beladen mit Fomapan R100, die nach der Entwicklung dann von Thorsten zu dieser schmissigen Collage verarbeitet wurden.

I wrote the following article in August 2015 and then never published it for some reason.
Nevertheless, it has not become less interesting, because it shows that Wittner would still be able to produce DS8 film – provided, of course, that they can find unperforated 35 mm film.

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Even if Super 8 bulk loads are difficult to get, a reload-able Super 8 cartridge still makes sense: It is ideal, for example, if you want to develop short test pieces of a film stock before exposing the entire film.

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Digital synchronous sound for 8 and 16 mm film, finally made easy!

Are you tired of projecting silent films? Did you ever consider one of those old school methods with magnet tape and proprietary synchronisation devices that looked (and smelled) like the 70s?

No need for this anymore.

If you want to know when (and where) a film was produced, you can usually do so via so-called edge markings (or “edge codes”). However, the information on deciphering the small symbols and characters is somewhat scattered, hence here the attempt of a compilation: