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,…
Category Film Technology
Elmo Album – the luxury “click & whir”. A repair report
Die "Elmo Album" ist eine recht seltene Super 8 Kamera — und das ist schade, denn sie hat einige wirkliche Besonderheiten. Das besonderste (und zugleich heute irrelevanteste) ist wohl, dass…
DIY Tape Roller
Those who splice their film with tape know the air bubbles that occasionally gather under the adhesive film. From Würker (and later Wittner) there was the practical tape roller with…
Short documentary “Films from Wolfen”
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…
„Sheep“, sharper, sharpest: Test of the new Kodak Ektachrome 100D/7294
Ektachrome is back! Since October 2018, the eagerly awaited Super 8 color reversal material has finally hit the market. You can already read in many film tests that the new…
Double Super: DS8
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…
Of compulsive nature: Pentaflex 8 – (Part 1)
The examined camera has the serial number 35933; With Pentovar, No. 6355608. On the back of the selenium cell I find as confirmation "ELECTROCELL Dec". Stamped in 1963. The production…
Small but excellent: The 16mm camera Kiev 16U
If you enter today "Kiev 16U" into a search engine, you will find in hundreds of articles the lenses of an unusual Ukrainian 16mm film camera: Mir 11-m, Vega 7-1…
Spulendornadapter: DS 8 10m Spule auf 16mm Umroller
Jeder, der sich DS 8 oder D8 Filmmaterial von einer großen 30,5m 16mm Tageslichtspule auf kleine Kameraspulen abrollen will, kennt das Problem: Eine 10m D8 Spule passt einfach nicht auf den…
Super-8 aus zweiter Reihe
Beaulieu 4008, Canon 1014-XL, Nikon R10 oder Nizo Professional - so heißen einige der Top-Modelle unter den Super-8-Filmkameras, die sich zum Zeitpunkt ihres Erscheinens nur wenige Filmer leisten konnten und…
