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…
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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…
Let there be light: replacement light bulbs for the Muray film viewer
Small gauge filmmakers appreciate their Muray film viewer, which was also sold in Germany under the brand name Hähnel. No wonder: the little beauties with a dog's nose and hammer…
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…
Repair of an Agfa N8S film splicer
The Agfa Splicer N8S is actually a very excellent glue press for long-lasting "wet" splicing of Super 8 films. It grinds both ends of the film to be glued in…