8mm Forum: Super8 Film Looper Available

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Posted by David Pfluger (Member # 1692) on January 03, 2013, 03:35 PM:

Hi
I wanted to let everyone know that there is a film looper plate explicitly designed for 8mm and Super8 available now:
www.looper8.ch
I have developed it for my own needs and made a small series of them and offer them for sale or rental now. The website is still quite rudimentary but there are PDFs for download which will give you more information on the unit.
Please get in touch you want one or have questions.
David Pfluger
Basel, Switzerland

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on January 05, 2013, 03:44 PM:

Hi David, while I appreciate your invention, I am curios to know, since the looper can only take 7 minutes at 18 fps (around 120' film) who are actually your intended/target buyers in this DVD era?

Car sales person or real estate agent (who used to have such a machine by the brand of "Fairchild" or "Technicolor") are using DVD now in marketing their products.

We are the film collectors, I think, do not want to show our shorts/trailers again and again.

The film shooters perhaps...? but for what purpose? I am a bit curios to know your target.

ps: your pdf files are so professionally made!

[ January 05, 2013, 05:37 PM: Message edited by: Winbert Hutahaean ]

Posted by David Pfluger (Member # 1692) on January 05, 2013, 05:29 PM:

This unit is aimed at artists working with 8mm/Super8 film.
It's clear that no sales agent will ever go back to using Super8 but a DVD projection cannot replace a film projection of an artwork that was meant to be on film.
A lot of 16mm loop projections are running on similar devices in art exhibitions around the globe. Loopers for 16mm film are readily available for sale and rental. For 8mm/Super8 I could not find one when I needed some for my own work.

All the best,
David

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on January 05, 2013, 05:42 PM:

Hi Thanks David for the explanation.

Good luck!.

BTW, I just realized that you are not really new to the forum since you have registered in 2009.

And I also found your first post is to search any Georges Méliès films, did you ever find it?

I just got 4 GM films, while the first one is the well know "Trip to the moon" and the others are 3 shorts.

PM me at winbert (at) hotmail (dot) com if you are interested with them.

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