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Bart Smith
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 228
From: Hackney, London
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted March 31, 2007 05:37 AM
Mike Peckham said... quote:
It'd be interesting to know what turn around time Blue Audio in Islinglton have for their E64T processing, their prices seem pretty competitive.
Maybe if Bart is reading this he could tell us .
I agree with Nick that EVT are the way to go for sound striping - very good service.
Now there's a thought, how about Blue Audio or someone doing a price for processing including sound striping...
Our process-paid deal is in association with Andec in Berlin - Turnaround time is typically 10-15 days, much the same as it was in the days of K40 process-paid. If you buy the film process-paid from us you send the cart direct to Andec, which means you don't have to see our ugly mugs or speak to us on the phone more than once!
As to a deal including sound-striping it's certainly something I will consider, although I suspect it would be a logistical nightmare! I've sold (according to my shop database) about 1500 rolls of reversal in the last 12 months - I would imagine that I will sell more over the next 12 months as we have not been active on the web for long, and sales are ramping up.
But I would imagine that demand for sound-striping would be a tiny percentage of the number of rolls sold, simply because nearly all of our customers get their film transferred to video these days (shame on them!). Projection is a dying art, I'm afraid to say.
Mark Norton said quote:
Thinking of using Kodak 64T as allthough it is not my favorite, this seems to be the most reliable film stock that runs in a Kodak cartridge.
I recently looked at a customers test-reel on our GS800 and I've got to say that in my opinion 64T looks even better than K40 ever did. Andec in Berlin have been tweaking their processing, and the results are excellent. If anyone out there tried 64T when it first came out and felt a bit disappointed, give it another go!
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Bart Smith
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 228
From: Hackney, London
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted October 21, 2007 05:00 PM
Mark - I know that the Bauer C2 reads 64t OK, and I would have thought that the same should be true of the C3, but I can't answer that particular question authoritatively at the mo...
It is easy to determine whether or not any camera it will read 64T correctly by examining the notch sensor/switch mechanism located 1/2" or so above the film locating pin adjacent to the gate. If it has a simple switch, it is a 40/160 only camera.
If the assembly looks more complex, it will probably read 64T. The typical configuration for most Super 8 cameras (which can read 64T) is a stepped switch about 1/3" or so long which you should be able to push into the body of the camera in the direction of the lens. Different "steps" are pushed in by different notch sizes on the camera, allowing it to determine what speed the film is.
THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS TO THIS RULE - But not in the case of any Bauers that I remember coming across.
The other easy way to determine the speed that a camera will recognise is to look inside the film chamber and see what is written there. Some cameras will say "Film speed 40, 160" or similar. These will read one or the other, but not the speeds in between. Others will say "Film speed 40-160", and should read 40, 64, 100, & 160.
Again there are exceptions - there are cameras which will read an even wider range of speeds, as the Super 8 notching system ranges from 16-640T (=10-400D).
Your comment about later Bauers being OK is the wrong way round I'm afraid! Typically (and this is true of Bauers) earlier models were capable of reading a wider range of speeds. By the mid 70s or so manufacturers had cottoned on to fact that film was only being produced in 2 speeds, 40 & 160, so they cut down on production costs(and presumably failure rates) by installing the simple switch as described above. At the risk of repeating myself, there are, of course, exceptions to this rule!
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