18 oder 24 Bilder pro Sekunde?
Spätestens seit der Festlegung auf 24 Bilder pro Sekunde (B/s) im kommerziellen Kino in den 1920ern sind die Amateure am Diskutieren, ob man auch mit 24 B/s drehen solle. Die…
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AGFA – The Agfa laboratory products
This 10-minute Super 8 advertising film with Frank Zander promotes the "AGFA laboratory range" and is a wonderful time capsule. The reel found its way to film friend Peter at…
Don’t be afraid of Super8 – Analog Resistance Festival 2024
The first Analog Resistance Festival in Yverdon-Les Bains took place in 2018. For decades, the small town in the French-speaking part of Switzerland was also home to the headquarters of…
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…
Nizo Professional – Surgical intervention on the trigger button electronics
After I was able last fall to put my H8 RX in the closet as repaired, I now turned my attention to the defective Nizo Professional at the beginning of…
Making DIY prints from color negative film
I am an analog filmmaker. Therefore, I also want to project my films. Of course, I also scan them and then publish them where everyone else does these days, but…
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,…
Unopened Eastman Transparent film, expired 1903, exposed in 2021
When I wrote here in 2018 about my experiments with Eastman Color Negative 7254 from 1972, I never dreamed what much older types of film I would find, still unexposed.…
Super8 Competition 2022 Film Festival Weiterstadt
Eight Super8 films were presented to the audience for voting last Saturday night. The special thing about the Super8 competition in Weiterstadt is that the films are still traditionally shown…