8mm Forum: Leader, Kodak or No-Name

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Posted by Jan Adolfsson (Member # 3325) on February 27, 2013, 05:43 AM:

Hi,
Do anyone know if there are any differences in quality etc between Kodak leader and No-Name leader sold on eBay?

Your best
jan.

Posted by Joerg Polzfusz (Member # 602) on February 27, 2013, 07:30 AM:

Hi,

yes, there are differences. E.g. the leader made by hama is much thinner and more flexible than Kodak's. Hence hama's leader is always eaten by my Bauer T610 even though it's working fine in other projectors. (The leaders used by Agfa, ORWO and Fuji are also working fine in my T610. Leaders made/sold by rowi, revue, herma... do have the same problem as the current hama-leaders.)

BTW: To me it looks like only Kodak, hama and Fuji are still producing Super8-leaders at all. As Fuji is only producing them for their own Single8-lab-service, those leaders on eBay are most likely either made by Kodak or hama (or is some older stuff by who-knows).

Jörg

Posted by Flavio Stabile (Member # 357) on February 27, 2013, 10:49 AM:

HI Jan,

I would like to add my personal experience on "no brand" leaders, especially Super 8, that were in many case "out of standard".
I mean the distance between the sprockets is not always constant and this, on some projector, may cause, some problems (sprockets damaged, for instance, that could be the problem descirbed by Joerg...).
Now I buy only original kodak or branded leader, but not completely "unbranded".

Flavio

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on February 27, 2013, 11:44 AM:

That was a problem that Ray Harryhausen had with Kodak stock
when shooting his films,was that the sprocket holes were not
being punched accurately enough, a rep from the company came
to see him, and Ray explained that the slightest movement was
disastrous for his particular movies.Kodak adjusted their 35mm
punches to suit.I would think the problem still persists on super 8.

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