New book about PROTOTYPES - movie cameras that never hit the market

[Juergen Lossau]

Thanks for the nice comments about my new book. Here are some examples:


"An extremely well done book. Absolute highlight of this book is clearly the chapter about Meopta, which is also the most comprehensive chapter!"

Martin Rowek, Projectionist Forum





"A really great book. Impressive what so many companies have planned and then often not implemented. The chapter about Albrecht Graf Goertz, the creator of one of the most beautiful cars in the world (BMW 507), thrilled me. He also designed Fujicas! Also very impressive what Leica created for the showcase for 25 years."

Helge L., Projectionist Forum




"Thank you very much for this work, a wonderful book!"

Film Mechanic, Projectionist Forum




"What a treat! Am only on the Arri chapter, but already deeply immersed."

Friedemann Wachsmuth, Projectionist Forum




"Am also completely enthralled! Thank you for the wonderful book and for the immense work that went into it."

Mamingu, Projectionist Forum




"Very many beautiful illustrations of the cameras. And what I also really like: the cheerful, smug tone in the headlines and articles. Anyway, it reads very easily – just also because of the casual remarks."

Regular 8, Projectionist Forum




"It's beautiful!"

David Sekanina, Cinematography.com




"Well done, excellent work!"

Lee Mannering, 8mm Forum




"Highly recommended!"

Maurizio di Cintio, Super 8 Group, Facebook




„Fabulous Monday! When I got home for dinner and saw that Jürgen Lossau's latest book had arrived: a clever treatise on 158!!! prototypes of Super 8 and 16mm cameras. A first look reveals amazing things, like Marcel Beaulieu's photography with a prototype for Double Super 8 or an Eumig with motorized but not automatic focus and stereo sound. Exceptional volume, highly recommended, a MUST for any Super-8 creative!“


Ignacio Benedeti Corzo, Super 8mm, Facebook




“Anything put out by Jürgen Lossau is top notch!”

Shane C. Collins, Super 8mm, Facebook




“This is an excellent book. I finally see the developments of other designers. Very interesting. Now I'd like to know even more about the designer of the Auto-Carena.”

Shigeo Mizukawa, camera designer for FujiFilm, Japan




“All the other books of Jürgen Lossau are fabulous, I will get this one also.”

Hyker Richard LaRiviere, Cine Camera Collectors, Facebook




“An avid photo fair-goer, Lossau is also the author of many books and editor of a Super 8 magazine. It's great to see that film camera manufacturers have been working on new models until recently. Jürgen has documented quite a bit.”

André Hagers, Vereniging Fotografica, Netherlands

[Lee Mannering]

Well done you excellent work

[Juergen Lossau]

Here is the final list of models:

7x Agfa 8mm, Super 8

1x Arri DS8

8x Bauer 8mm, Super 8

4x Beaulieu Super 8

1x Bilora 8mm

3x Bolex Super 8 Sound

6x Bolsey 8mm, 16mm

1x Canon Super 8

16x Eumig Super 8, Super 8 Sound

13x Fujica Single-8

14x Kodak Super 8

14x Leicina 8mm, Super 8

5x Logmar Super 8

26x Meopta 8mm, Super 8

3x Nikon 8mm, Super 8

22x Braun Nizo 8mm, Super 8, Super 8 Sound

10x Rollei, 8mm, Super 8, 16mm

3x Victor 8mm, 16mm

1x Zeiss Ikon 16mm



158 prototypes in total

[Juergen Lossau]

Finished! The book is in the print shop now, it will be published in two weeks. 150 (!) prototypes on 180 pages. If you like to have a copy, look here: https://www.mysuper8.net/shop/protot...movie-cameras/

[Juergen Lossau]

Hi Erik, nice to hear, thanks. Yeah, I received some photos photos of the Montgomery from the Eumig museum. If you have some of the wooden Eumig Nautica please send it to me by mail info -at- super8.tv - thanks so much!

[Erik Snel]

Hi jeurgen, I too have a Prototype in my posession, its a wooden model that looks a alot like the Eumig nautica. a few years ago i found three eumig based prototypes and sold two of them to the Eumig Museum. you may have featured them in the book one is also a nautica prototype in black with orange buttons and the other is a montgomery ward 765XL which seems based on the eumig 125XL camera. now the nautica did see production eventually but i don't think the montgomery ward did

[Juergen Lossau]

Here is a nice article about the upcoming book:

https://www.filmkorn.org/cameras-of-...types/?lang=en

[Juergen Lossau]

Logmar produced approaching 40 cameras which were advanced for the time. The downside with them for me was having to pull nearly 3ft of film from the cartridge to manually thread the aperture.
The intended new Kodak camera really picked up where it left off.

Hi Lee, an early Logmar version with parts from a 3D printer will be also in the book.

[Juergen Lossau]

I have an 8mm camera that may (or may not) be considered a prototype. It's a Canon 8S. It is the predecessor to the Canon 8T. Canon's "camera museum" site mentions it briefly here as "not marketed". I posted a question about it on another page on this forum. Your thoughts, here or on that page, are welcome.

Thanks,
Steve

Hi Steve, great to hear that you have a Canon "prototype". I would like to add it to the book.

[Lee Mannering]

Logmar produced approaching 40 cameras which were advanced for the time. The downside with them for me was having to pull nearly 3ft of film from the cartridge to manually thread the aperture.
The intended new Kodak camera really picked up where it left off.

[Steven Michelsen]

I have an 8mm camera that may (or may not) be considered a prototype. It's a Canon 8S. It is the predecessor to the Canon 8T. Canon's "camera museum" site mentions it briefly here as "not marketed". I posted a question about it on another page on this forum. Your thoughts, here or on that page, are welcome.

Thanks,
Steve

[Juergen Lossau]

New prototypes arrived
Victor 8mm, Kodak 16mm, Kodak Super 8, Logmar Super 8

[Juergen Lossau]

Thanks for the nice comments and the orders so far. Here you will find some of the brand names from the book:

Agfa (3x 8mm, 8x Super 8)

Arri (Super 8)

Bauer (5x Super 8)

Beaulieu (2x Super 8)

Bolex (Super 8)

Bolsey (8mm)

Braun Nizo (2x 8mm, 10x Super 8)

Canon (Super 8)

Chinon (Super 8)

Eumig (15x Super 8)

Fujica (5x Single-8)

Gakken (Single-8)

GOMZ (Super 8, 16mm)

Kodak (16mm, 2x Super 8)

Leitz Leicina (12x 8mm)

Logmar (Super 8)

Meopta (8mm)

Nikon (8mm, Super 8)

Rollei (8mm, 16mm, Super 8)

Saraber Finetta (Super 8)

Silma (Super 8)

Suchanek (8mm)

Victor (2x 16mm)

Zeiss Ikon (16mm)

and others

[Eivind Mork]

Very cool! I don't want to miss this, so I just made a (pre) order on your page :-)

[Steve Klare]

I love the camera on the cover!

"Halt! -or you will be vaporized!"

I'm torn which I like better: "klitzekleine" or "itty-bitty"!

(Ich sollte dieses Buch für meinen Kaffeetisch kaufen!)