A Super 8 promotional film from Agfa-Gevaert, ca. 1979 This wonderful promotional film for dealers was found by film friend Peter Willems at the film fair in Deidesheim last year,…
AGFA – The Hobby Lab
Unopened Eastman Transparent film, expired 1903, exposed in 2021
When I wrote here in 2018 about my experiments with Eastman Color Negative 7254 from 1972, I never dreamed what much older types of film I would find, still unexposed.…
Quarz DS8 – die heimlichen Zweiformat-Kameras?
Eine Kamera, die Doppel-8 und Doppel-Super-8-Film belichten kann ? Da fällt einem nur die Elmo C-300 ein, die mit dieser Besonderheit ausgestattet ist, hierfür aber für jedes Filmformat eine spezielles…
Films by Patrick Müller: analogue projection with optical sound and live music
On November 2, 2022, a very special film evening will take place in the Museum Gunzenhauser in Chemnitz: eleven poetry films by Patrick Müller will be shown in analog 16mm…
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…
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…