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Topic: Current status of Double Super 8
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Luigi Castellitto
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 715
From: Campobasso, Italy
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted October 30, 2018 07:21 PM
The Fomapan is an excellent film, and then if we consider that it exists also in DS8 of 30 meters that is practically infinite...
I find myself very well with my Pathé, great results, even if I consider my camera lower than the Canon DS8 and a modified Bolex, but certainly it's superior to the soviets DS8, even if I used a model of they and the result was not bad.
I left on my Pathé the lens that is sold together with it (Angenieux 1.9 8-64,even if I changed it with an equal because one is broken), which is still a zoom, but of high quality. Then, the camera is all metal, has a metal press, has an automatic and manual solid loading mechanism. It has only one big defect, a reflex mirror almost made of "paper"! But luckily I did change with a better one, at the time!
Paul, you say about the prime lens, I deduce that you have a Bolex DS8? I can't remember other DS8 camera with prime lens, apart from my Pathé that has the turret and can also bring prime lens.
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Luigi Castellitto
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 715
From: Campobasso, Italy
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted November 08, 2018 08:20 PM
True, David, maybe I'm too critical with my Pathé, it's that I love my Bolex H8 Rex 4 for classi double 8, and it always seems to me the top of efficiency. But it has flaws, certainly, first of all the little and dark viewfinder! The first time I tried a Bolex H I thought there was a problem in the viewfinder! The other models, like the P3 that I also own, have very large and bright viewfinders!
I too have often thought about the modification of Bernie, it is not even extremely expensive, but I would pay a lot of shipping cost.
Instead I would never use an external LCD screen connected to the viewfinder, in my opinion they distort the beauty of the old machines.
The Pathé is also very beautiful to look at, it looks like a 35mm in miniature. It has the same problem of the Canon, if you want to use 10m or 7.5m films you have to wrap them in the 30 meter reels, the camera only accepts those.
My Angeniux is very clean, it was a model for Beaulieu, with the gear for the automatic functions, which of course I have dismantled. The originally lens (similar) it has fallen, but incredibly the whole optics has resisted a violent fall (but without glass... repair it would have cost more than a new one).
The Webo BTL DS8 is a less refined machine than a Bolex in the sense that it is more "metallic", for example on the H8 I have a Rexofader, with the Pathé I have to make a hard movement.
But it has the internal exposure meter, which I use very well with a battery adapter.
A never-repeated curiosity: to save the battery, the exposure meter was activated with... a head shot! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) In the sense that your forehead pressed against a lever and activated the function. My machine, however, is modified, they are almost all modified, it was a very original method, but strange!
I also hope that the Ektachrome also comes in DS8 (and that costs less...). Ferrania ... mmmmh. :|
Once in a while there are expired DS8 films, often the Orwo, sometimes even Svema in color!
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Luigi Castellitto
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 715
From: Campobasso, Italy
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted November 09, 2018 01:55 PM
Don't forget that in addition to the perforations it has the characteristics of classic the Super 8, therefore also the largest frame.
I also love the format, being a Super8 with the great advantage of the pressure not in plastic. Great definition!
Dom and Maurice, why do not you try? The Soviet cameras are also available at 20/30 euros, as well as the 10 meter Fomapan R100 at around 12 euros. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Obviously projectors, splicers, movioles, etc., are the same as the Super 8.
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