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Maurice Leakey
Film God

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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted July 24, 2008 06:11 AM

I notice that German eBay always has a large selection of Super 8 projectors on offer, far more than the UK site.

Is this because the country had so many more Super 8 users of yesteryear, or is that it has a much larger supply area which would no doubt include projectors originating from its neighbouring countries?

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Steven J Kirk
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Southern England
Registered: Apr 2008

posted July 24, 2008 07:49 PM

I've noticed this also. This was the next suggestion I was to make on the getting of a Eumig S938. One time I looked on there and saw THREE Eumig 940s up at the same time. There is also an Austrian eBay - eBay.at as well. Always a lot of Eumig equipment perhaps obviously. I purchased my Elmo 1.1 lens short throw 12.5mm - 25mm from eBay.de. Came with original box as these were sold as an accessory as well as standard on the GS1200. Well worth looking at these eBay sites and English language isn't usually a problem, I've found.

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VistaVision
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Winbert Hutahaean
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From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
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posted July 24, 2008 09:45 PM

It is not only for the 8mm gears, but the 8mm prints they had were more various then the English one. Many of them were not available in Enlish version although they were English movies. Besides, they also released many films in three parter versions making more satisfaction for us.

The most important to be aware that those gears and films were sold when Germany still broke up into two. So basically only half of today's German who were doing 8mm stuffs (western standard). And the size of the country (area and population wise) are much smaller than America.

I don't know why too what make the availability of 8mm is much larger in German Ebay now.

cheers,

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Jean-Marc Toussaint
Film God

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From: France
Registered: Oct 2004

posted July 25, 2008 04:39 AM

Winbert is right, it's the incredible quantity of rare titles that is really attractive.

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Yanis Tzortzis
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Greece
Registered: Aug 2005

posted July 25, 2008 04:56 AM

I can but support the previous statements;I'm regular on eBay Germany,and the variety by far exceeds that of eBay UK. Plus, prices are more often very competitive-it's in Euros,too...
...Just a guess:how many professional film sellers are in Germany?
In the UK we have Derann,CHC,Perry's,Buckingham,Paul Foster etc; are there the equivalent traders in numbers?

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David Kilderry
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Registered: Feb 2006

posted July 26, 2008 08:08 AM

Yes, I have found a few films on German ebay, but the sellers have not accepted paypal, so I have let them pass.

David

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Steven J Kirk
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Southern England
Registered: Apr 2008

posted July 26, 2008 08:56 PM

GS1200 on eBay.de right now. Bit expensive, does have two lenses plus daylight viewer, etc.

http://cgi.ebay.de/ELMO-GS-1200-Super-8-Stereo-Projektor_W0QQitemZ140251143842QQihZ004QQcategoryZ8271QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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VistaVision
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Steven J Kirk
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Southern England
Registered: Apr 2008

posted July 28, 2008 07:24 PM

... and a Beaulieu also!

http://cgi.ebay.de/BEAULLIEU-708-EL-Super-8-Projektor-France_W0QQitemZ140253358624QQihZ004QQcategoryZ8271QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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VistaVision
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Oemer Yalinkilic
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Berlin, Germany
Registered: Jul 2003

posted July 31, 2008 05:21 PM

Super 8 was in the heyday in the 70´s more popular in germany than in other country´s. I remember that I had 4 friends in my school class they had a Super 8 projector and also features.
Also my father in law have still his large Super 8 collection.
But he don´t give me his films. :-)
I think, maybe 5-10% of the families had a Super 8 projector and most of them had 1-3 features (2 or 3 parter) and few cartoons. This was in my neighborship.
I was the most poor of my friends and had only a silent projector and many castle Horror Titles.
There was the one of the bigest Super 8 shops in Berlin at this time. It was Eduard Offermans Filmothek. He had full backcover advertisement on the popular Cinema Magazin. He used also comercials in Theaters and I saw also two times a TV spot for his shop.
It was like a dream to be in his shop. He was very friendly to me although I can´t afford a film.

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Steven J Kirk
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Southern England
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posted August 11, 2008 08:53 PM

Eumig S940 alert!

http://cgi.ebay.de/EUMIG-S-940-stereo-multiprocessor_W0QQitemZ150281623357QQihZ005QQcategoryZ8271QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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