From: Dicky (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Feb 23 2009 - 10:37:40 PST
You need to buy REGULAR 8 or DOUBLE 8 film. You cannot, for instance, use
Super 8 film. It comes in little cans that look like this:
http://www.myoldcamera.com/Ektachrome100D.280x210.website.jpg
or a little box that looks like this:
http://www.super8.nl/images/doosjes/fomapan_ds8.jpg
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:21 AM, miriam jayne martins sampaio <
email suppressed> wrote:
> hello againsorry to be such a bother but assuming i am understanding this
> well...any regular 8 film will serve for this camera? or do i need to buy
> some special 16mm film??
> sorry for the ignorance
> miriam
>
> > Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:49:54 -0500
> > From: email suppressed
> > Subject: Re: HELP
> > To: email suppressed
> >
> > Miriam,
> >
> > You also need to find the correct film for the camera, because even
> > though the film is originally 16 as it goes through the camera it need
> > perforation on both sides and double the number that normal 16 has. The
> > only place I know of to find such film is at: myoldcamera.com
> >
> > They take regular 16 and add the proper perforations, and shorten it to
> > 25ft. Just make sure you get regular 8 film (which is what they will
> > call it) and not super8 there is a big difference.
> >
> > tk
> >
> >
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