8mm Forum: Kodachrome Super 8 - anyone want to buy?

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Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on November 17, 2009, 01:39 PM:

Hello friends, I just learned that a friend, unbeknownst to me, has been hoarding a couple of dozen carts from '04, '05, and '06 in his freezer (the nerve of it! He didn't ask ME first). He'd sell them at whatever quantity is desired via PayPal for payment. Would anyone be interested for $25 per cartridge, plus shipping? If so, I'll get the details posted here.

He also has some late-vintage sound carts but has found them to be inconsistent in image quality, excellent to okay, so he was more inclined to experiment with those. But make him an offer he can't refuse, and...

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on November 17, 2009, 04:33 PM:

Bill, I also learned that with the end of Kodachrome processing in Dec 2010, the price of this stock has droped dramatically. I just purchased this week 5 carts of 2004-05 batch for around $10-11/each.

Good luck to your friend

Posted by Raymond J. Santoro (Member # 1319) on November 17, 2009, 11:36 PM:

I am VERY interested in the sound cartidges. What are the exp. dates and how much is he asking for them? Are they also K40? Thanks!

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on November 18, 2009, 09:30 AM:

Hi Raymond, on your old post in June 2009 here you told us that you bought outdated Kodachrome sound. How is the result and what stock they came from?

Thanks if you can share (since I have know 5 outdated cartridges, one from 1997 and 4 from 2004-05),

Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on November 18, 2009, 12:17 PM:

Raymond, I will inquire. Stay tuned!

Posted by Raymond J. Santoro (Member # 1319) on November 18, 2009, 05:27 PM:

Thanks Bill. I would love to have some more sound film.

Winbert, most sound film I've had with exp. dates from the mid 90's forward have come out excellent. I suppose much of that has depended on how they were stored before I got them. I've been pretty lucky. I recently shot some K40 with exp. dates from 1992, and the color was faded.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on November 18, 2009, 07:18 PM:

I've always been curious how much of a problem the 18 frame separation between sound and picture is when you edit sound film.

I've shot thousands of feet of Super-8, but the only sound films I've ever made were post striped.

Posted by Claus Harding (Member # 702) on November 19, 2009, 05:06 AM:

Steve,

For live-sound scenes, there is of course a tiny glitch when you cut the film physically at the frame and the sound has to 'get back on' in playback, but I have never felt it was that big a deal, especially if the scenes in question both have ambient sound that is similar.

Bear one thing in mind, that I usually also shot at 24.fp.s any time I shot live sound, so the glitch went by faster.

But the bottom line: it's easy to live with, given that you do get the luxury of lip-sync Super-8 sound. I wouldn't worry about it unless you were planning tight edits of conversations or similar.

Claus.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on November 19, 2009, 08:15 AM:

If I ever used sound cartridges, I'd have to re-think the way I make my films. I usually have scenes intermingled with titles, which in a soundtrack would become tiny moments of awkward silence.

Then again, this is a classic silent movie style anyway. With sound there could be less titles and more on-screen commentary and off-screen narration.

Still again, if I make these projects much more complicated I'll probably never finish a film again!

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