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…
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IN THE CELLAR – Laboratory Cooperatives at the 23rd Dresden Small Gauge Film Festival
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…
External light meters
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…
SUPER 8 EXPANDED
Super 8 Expanded - what is it? Super 8 Expanded was the second Super8 evening at this year's Bremen Film Festival. After the international Super8 competition took place in a…
ST8 OF THE ART – first international Super8 competition at Filmfest Bremen 2022
Last Friday, the first international Super8 competition took place at the Bremen Film Festival in the traditional City 46 municipal cinema . According to the organizer, over 40 films were…
Building a Regular 8mm Optical Printer
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…
Cameras of Dreams: A Book about Prototypes
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…
Super-8-Film “Im Nebel” Preisträger bei der Internationalen Kurzfilmwoche Regenburg 2022
Meine mit Super-8- bzw. Single-8 umgesetzte Interpretation des Hermann-Hesse-Gedichts "Im Nebel" hat heute abend einen der beiden Hauptpreise des "Regionalfensters" der Internationalen Kurzfilmwoche in Regensburg gewonnen und konnte somit gegenüber…
Conversion of a Bolex D8L to DS8
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,…
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…