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,…
Conversion of a Bolex D8L to DS8
How to Color Correct 16mm film
Who does not know them, the dull, gray digital scans of analog color negative film that can be found all over the Internet? Small gauge film beginners mistakenly think that…
Film can’t be expensive enough
...because it is priceless. Everywhere these days one reads big whine about upcoming film price increases at Kodak. That is usury, now the hobby is over, there is even some…
Maintenance instructions Leicina 8SV
The Leicina 8SV is a very nice, special double-8 camera. Not only is it electrically motorized, it is also extremely robust, has a very good Angenieux lens and is usually…
Modification of the Wolverine Pro Film Scanner
The Wolverine Scanner (also sold as Reflecta, Somikon, Winait or similar) for Super 8 and Regular 8 Film fills a gap in the market because it is affordable. Unfortunately, however,…
Interview with Patrick Müller
In July, Lina Gasser from Switzerland interviewed me for her Matura thesis SUPER 8 - AN ANALOGUE SHORT FILM. I answered her questions. How did you come to filmmaking? What…
Super-8 beim Open-Air-Filmfest in Weiterstadt
Auch bei der 43. Ausgabe des Filmfests in Weiterstadt wird es am Samstag 10. August 2019 abends ab 22.00 Uhr den traditionellen Super8-Filmwettbewerb geben. Das Wettbewerbsprogramm bestehend aus acht Super-8-Filmen…
Lightening up too dark black&white reversal films
Perhaps others here also know the chronic problem of too-dark b&w reversal films. At least for me, b&w reversal films turn out much more often too dark than too bright.…
Deidesheim 2019
Am kommenden Samstag, dem 13. April 2019, ist es wieder soweit: Von 10:00 - 16:00 findet die große Schmalfilmbörse In der Stadthalle in Deidesheim statt. Die Börse ist "Nachfolger von Waghäusel",…
Magnet Striping in perfection
Alberto Vangelisti is more than a tinkerer — he is apparently a gifted engineer: He managed something that the most proven machines failed in recent years: Design, construction and operation…