Reloading Russian “Kaccema” S8 cartridges

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…
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…
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…
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…
John Rizzo plans to open up a new lab for 8 and 16mm film on the east coast. The continous processor for black and white reversal film will run as…
Kubrick schoß "Barry Lyndon" und Copolla den ersten Teil des "Paten" auf der 35mm Version 5254. Die Beatles drehten ihren letzten Film "Let It Be" inklusive des berühmten Dachkonzerts auf…
Viele tun sich schwer, im dunklen die Spirale des Lomo-Tanks fehlerfrei zu beladen – unentwickelte Bereiche und doppelte Lagen sind so oft ein Frustfaktor. Dabei geht es ganz leicht, wenn…
Das Filmen mit den Siemens-Kino-Kameras macht großen Spaß, vor allem weil sie so kompakt sind. Auch dank der Kassette geht alles leicht von der Hand, doch volle Kassetten gibt es leider nicht…
It all started some years ago, when Lomography brought the Lomochrome Purple 16mm Motion Picture film to market. Instantly comments popped up in the internet, asking “What is it good…
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…
"Säv, säv, susa", these three words have not left my mind, since 2014, when I held a volume of poems by the Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding (1860-1911) in my hands.…