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,…
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,…
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.…
Eine Kamera, die Doppel-8 und Doppel-Super-8-Film belichten kann ? Da fällt einem nur die Elmo C-300 ein, die mit dieser Besonderheit ausgestattet ist, hierfür aber für jedes Filmformat eine spezielles…
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…
Films or film programs by independent film and laboratory communities have always been an important part of the Dresden small format film, in addition to the competition programs that are…
The question arises again and again as to whether external light meters are "more accurate" than those integrated into the cameras. Or whether you can use external exposure meters to…
I had never heard of an optical printer with a Regular 8mm film camera. I had the idea that there ought to be one (at least) and that I could…
Jürgen Lossau, author of the highly-saught standard books “Film Projectors” and “Film Cameras 1+2” cannot help it: In a market climate in which the print media is chronically suffering, and…
The components of cameras age and lead to a loss of functionality, but some cameras, namely those from Bolex, Leitz or Beaulieu, to name just a few, seem to be…
Conversion of a Bolex D8L to DS8 The Bolex wind-up cameras are not legendary for nothing. Especially with the excellent prime lenses of their time, they are simply very good,…