From: Jim Flannery (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Feb 23 2009 - 15:30:04 PST
Monday, February 23, 2009, 1:27:24 PM, one spoke:
m> if it does take 16mm film than that morse tank i put a bid on will be
m> great to have. if not? well i am kinda of screwed since i do not own
m> a 16mm camera just a super 8.
As has been said several times:
1) Under NO circumstances will you have a SUPER 8 camera. This is a
DOUBLE 8 camera (it's right in the model number, "2x8").
2) It will not take 16mm film. It requires DOUBLE 8mm film specifically
labeled as such. Previous emails have provided mail order sources in the
US and in Europe.
3) You can use double 8mm film in 16mm equipment. You cannot use 16mm
film in double 8mm equipment.
4) THEREFORE if you shoot double 8mm film in your double 8mm camera you
can process it in your 16mm tank, project it in your 16mm projector,
edit it on your 16mm flatbed, etc. But you MUST use double 8 film to
begin with because you CANNOT run 16mm film in a double 8 camera.
5) If you process the double 8mm film in your own tank, or send it to a
16mm lab and do NOT have it "split" your 16mm frame will have the 2x2
grid described in earlier emails. You can intercut this original with
normal 16mm film, or finish a film entirely in this format; from the
point it leaves the camera, you *may* treat the film as 16mm.
6) To work with double 8mm film *AS 8mm* you must "split" the original
after processing, either by sending it to a lab that provides the
service (again, see previous emails for addresses) or shopping around
for a salvaged machine. "Splitting" involves running a razor blade (a
*finely calibrated* razor blade) down the middle of the 16mm filmstrip,
resulting in two 8mm filmstrips. (From this point on you can NOT use the
film in 16mm equipment, so you'ld obviously need to come up with
appropriate viewer, splicer, etc.)
So if you're working in 16mm generally, this is a camera that you can
use for certain special purposes (i.e. making a 2x2 grid of images). But
you know, $55 isn't a lot of money to spend on a special-purpose camera,
even if you only use it for a few dozen shots over its lifetime ;-) ...
-- Jim Flannery email suppressed __________________________________________________________________ For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.