SUPER - 8 CINE FILM

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Anyone still involved with Super-8 movie making.

Been years since I was involved with a cine club, but the format may have died off completely even though film is still available? :shrug:
 
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Where you normally keep them I would think ^^
 
erm that's interesting as I would have thought everyone had gone digital.
 
Isn't that what the rest of the forum thinks about this place?
 
That's interesting. I still have my Braun-Nizo S800 camera with it's superb 11-1 zoom lens, plus loads of other equipment that I used in those days for editing and for syncing for sound via reel to reel, but thought everyone had given up as our club did years ago.

Suppose it will just be of no use now.
 
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That's interesting. I still have my Braun-Nizo S800 camera with it's superb 11-1 zoom lens, plus loads of other equipment that I used in those days for editing and for syncing for sound via reel to reel, but thought everyone had given up as our club did years ago.

Suppose it will just be of no use now.
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My daughter is studying film at Kings college London and she tells me that super 8 stuff is still being used. She was delighted that I had started using film cameras as to her is is a purer art form! ;)
 
Kodak still release their latest motion emulsions in Super 8 and its still quite popular for use as a visual effect on TV (the BBC use it quite frequently for certain segments of some programs) and film.

I keep meaning to pick up a Super 8 camera at some point and just put a cartridge through it as its not too much really and only having 4 minutes at 18 frames per second or about 3.5 at 24 FPS would probably improve most things that I would shoot as I would be forced to think as to what is important.
 
alexam said:
That's interesting. I still have my Braun-Nizo S800 camera with it's superb 11-1 zoom lens, plus loads of other equipment that I used in those days for editing and for syncing for sound via reel to reel, but thought everyone had given up as our club did years ago.

Suppose it will just be of no use now.
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I never had a Nizo S800 but always lusted after one, I haven't actually shot any super 8 or 16mm for quite a while but still have most of my cameras and lenses. I often think i should sell it all but when I take it out I just can't bear to part with it and I promise myself I'll get some film and use it.

Maybe next year :D
 
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Isn't that what the rest of the forum thinks about this place?
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Ah but we are in the inside looking out ...and simply put\summed up by an American:-

"As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns: the ones we don't know we don't know".
Rumsfield
 
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RaglanSurf said:
I never had a Nizo S800 but always lusted after one, I haven't actually shot any super 8 or 16mm for quite a while but still have most of my cameras and lenses. I often think i should sell it all but when I take it out I just can't bear to part with it and I promise myself I'll get some film and use it.

Maybe next year :D
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so are you organising a cine meet then Nick ? :D

i think i've still got a b*****d and howl in the loft somewhere ( something like that anyway )
 
Interesting feedback. I don't think I will ever get back to Cine. It was great in it's day and I had the best Super 8 equipment, together with the full Farnell-Tandberg portable reel to reel recording system, still in the loft. Our team in the club used to produce award winning films that would compete and often win the Midlands Cine competitions. Scripts, actors, lighting and sound, all in sync, initially synced with tape an a Norris projector, then moving on to the stripe sync. Good old days!

If anyone is interested in this, then do contact me by PM, but I hardy think it worth offering on the classified section.
 
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excalibur2 said:
Ah but we are in the inside looking out ...and simply put\summed up by an American:-

"As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns: the ones we don't know we don't know".
Rumsfield
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Bit of a diversion off the point, but this was featured in The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld at http://stuffedpenguin.com/rumsfeld/lyrics.htm including performances. I particularly liked A Confession, and Clarity (there's even one with a reference to "overhead photography", so we're not entirely off the point).

Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible, sorry.:help:
 
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