Eastman 7222 Double-X: Reversal development
Many small gauge film makers do not even know that there is a Double-X between the (now discontinued) Plus-X and the still very popular Tri-X. As the name suggests, its…
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Making the Agfa Microflex ready for Provie and E100D
For some time now, one of my cameras piling up is a Agfa Microflex 100, which seems to be still working flawlessly. At the very least, test shots with…
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…
Workshop: Basics der analogen Filmproduktion
Im einem dreimoduligen Workshop „Filmproduktion Basics: der analoge Workflow“ der Filmwerkstatt Münster wird interessierten Filmemacher*innen die Möglichkeit geboten, die analoge Filmproduktion von der Vorbereitungsphase bis zur Endfertigung kennenzulernen. Dabei wird…
Montagsseminar “Renaissance des Analogen – Film is back!”
Am 25. Februar 2019 von 18:00 Uhr bis 21:00 Uhr veranstaltet die "Film Commission Region Stuttgart" (eine Einrichtung zur Wirtschaftsförderung in der Region Stuttgart) eines ihrer "Montagsseminare" - diesmal zum Thema…
Super8 at Berlinale 2019
Die Kinder der Toten ("The Children of the Dead") - a film project by Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska based on the novel by Elfriede Jelinek - consists of 8mm…
Cost-effective digitalization of Super 8 frames
Various special lenses for 35 mm reflex cameras were offered "at the time" to photograph Super 8 individual images. With these special macro lenses, the format-filling reproduction of Super 8-…
3D printed Super 8 cartridge opener
I opened my first cartridge in daylight with a saw... Everybody developing Super 8 films on their own sooner or later faces the task of opening the Super 8 cartridge…
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…