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…
DigIt: The archive of everyday analogue life
Digit is a WDR project in which new photos and films from everyday life of the past are added to a database every day. Digit is designed to prevent these…
SIlent Movie Concert in a church with analogue 35mm film projection
No, it was not a loveless DVD or Blu-ray played from the laptop (preferably with a projected disc menu and several trial-and-error attempts in front of a gathered audience, as…
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…
Memories of Eumig and Wiener Neudorf
Wanted: Small format films from 1950 to 1980 100 years of Eumig – 1919, the company was founded, and with up to 7,000 employees in the 1970s was the largest…
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…
Deciphering Edge Marks
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…
Die Einfach-8-Kameras vor Super-8 und Single-8
Es waren nicht weniger als elf Produkte. Nachdem das Doppel-8-Film-System Fuß gefaßt hatte, gab es immer wieder Anläufe, die Sache zu vereinfachen. Doppel-8-Film in Kassette und Ladern konnte aber nie…
Patent verpennt: Die schwingende Andruckplatte
Oft gerügt und prinzipbedingt eine der größten Schwachstellen der Super 8 Kassette ist die fehlende Andruckplatte, die bei allen anderen Filmformaten Teil der Kamera ist und verlässlich dafür sorgt, dass die Emulsionsseite…