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Topic: Kodak Bringing Back Ektachrome
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Tom Spielman
Master Film Handler
Posts: 339
From: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Registered: Apr 2016
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posted January 06, 2017 08:12 PM
There are plenty of cameras that would expose it correctly. If in doubt you can use this handy guide about Super 8 cartridge notches to determine if your camera would handle it right and if not, what it would do and perhaps how you could compensate.
100D uses the same notch as the old ASA 160 except that it also has the "Daylight" notch. If your camera doesn't have a pin for the daylight notch, it will assume 160 ASA Tungsten.
It can be very confusing. With some cameras you have to have to set them to tungsten or indoor mode in order to get them to work right with daylight film, -which is counter intuitive. There might also be a filter key that will swing the daylight filter out of the way, - which is you want. You don't need that filter with daylight film.
Anyway, with a camera like I described (without a daylight pin), as long as the daylight filter isn't being used, the film will be over exposed by 2/3 stop but otherwise OK, - which isn't the end of the world.
FWIW I paid a premium for some old 100D this past summer and used it with a camera from 1967. It turned out fine.
Like I said, it's confusing and I hope I didn't get it wrong.
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Osi Osgood
Film God
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted January 07, 2017 11:42 AM
So, just to have this accurate, these cartridges will work on the old school super 8 cameras? (as, quite honestly, I'm not going to shell out 2,000.00 dollars for a new Super 8 cameras, as much as I love super 8).
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Simon Wyss
Film Handler
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From: Äsch, Switzerland
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted January 08, 2017 09:18 AM
That new Super-8 camera has no chance with me, at least not at the price of $2,000. I have a Christen Reflex Intégrale DB-1, a Bell & Howell Filmo 605, a Paillard-Bolex C 8, a Paillard-Bolex H-8 Reflex 4, and I can buy Double-Eight film. I have a bunch of Regular-8 projectors which outperform every Super-8 projector in terms of durability, repairability, convenience of keeping them clean or simply neatness.
Is there a projector around that shows the “extended Max 8 gate” image Kodak claims to be so thrilling? No. So what’s the fuzz about the new camera? It has a mirrored shutter for the LCD but no optical reflex finder, Gee, how botched is that? No single frame exposure!
There’s hardly any printing service for positives off the negatives one shoots. As a real filmer I am not interested in scans. Sorry, Kodak, but for $2,000 I’d rather buy an Eyemo off eBay or so with a lot of accessories. Do offer Ektachrome in bulk rolls so I can send it through the Eyemo. You want to sell film, don’t you? And don’t forget to offer Ektachrome in 4" × 5" sheets, I have a view camera, too. Oh, wait, Fujichrome Provia 100 RDP III is the better film.
There’s one good thing Rochester still can do, bring back a true reversal black and white film on a colourless base. Grey-base PXR and TXR look bad compared to Fomapan R. Which is available in 35, 16, Double-Eight, and DS-8.
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