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Current 2x8mm / Super 8 film manufacture (Perforator video)
Judging from the buttons and digital display this is a new made machine. I wonder how many machines like this are made knowing the 8mm is very niche market. So how the company (who make the machine) can make money?
btw those films are not get burnt with those light and open area? Or this is just to show hot it works?
Judging from the buttons and digital display this is a new made machine. I wonder how many machines like this are made knowing the 8mm is very niche market. So how the company (who make the machine) can make money?
AFAIK those machines are very old - but completely refurbished (by Wittner Cinetech) and upgraded with state of the art components.
So... old machines ... which look like newly manufactured :-)
Yes, normally they work in the dark.... and the good condition is not visible ;-)
Quite a lot of this type of precision tooling is now made in china, including the high precision stuff. Its a standard type progression tool, as used to manufacture electrical contacts for the car industry, just as much quality is needed........
The precision would be extremely critical if the machine punch a set of perforations, instead of one perf a time.
This screenshot if from latest Kodak negative film stock I just scanned. While reviewing the scan I noticed the perforation was kind of wobbling back and forth in a very rhythmic manner. (See these 2 adjacent frames. Quite subtle, but it's really there.) After skipping through several frames I can count the "cycle" to be precisely every 5 frames - that's probably the number of the punch head in the assembly.
The sewing machine punch in my earlier post would not have this problem, since it would punch one perf. a time.
Back when I was printing I was able to make one print, either feature or short, with the 1-4 super 8 film. That's the super 8mm perforations on both edges. I'm sure Wittner figured their cost analysis before going into producing perfed film.
I have filmed several rolls of Regular 8mm film (Kodak Vision 3 50D) perforated by Wittner Cinetec. It works great. In the U.S. you can buy it from at least these two sources who import it from Wittner Cinetec. Wittner Cinetec was also selling it themselves earlier this year on their own website, but has currently run out of stock:
Amazing double 8mm quality. Arguably quite superior to Super 8 due to the precision metal gate of the Standard 8mm cameras, combined with the use of superb quality prime (non-zoom) Kern Switar lenses.
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