#Super 8 film camera

[gameraboy2]

1971 Canon Auto Zoom 814 Super 8 ad

[fabio-27125]

Some weeks ago I‘ve announced to post some reviews of my working cameras. So view this as the first of these:

This is my „Fujuca Zoom 8 Deluxe“

It‘s a fully electric double-eight film camera. So it films two lanes (into both directions) of 8mm frames onto a 16mm film. This used to be the standard way of amateur filming from it‘s invention by Eastman Kodak in the early 1930‘s until the introduction of Super8 cartridges in 1965.

This exemplary was exported out of japan in 1964, so it‘s a pretty late model with a lot of features, like zoom, fades, „electric eye“ automatic exposure (which doesn‘t work any more because there are no more 2,4V mercury batteries around anymore 😬).

I got it in it‘s original leather bag (which is soooo stylish 🤩🤩), it‘s original users manual and the export confirmation from 1964. And it basically still works which is just so cool.

[gracie-bird]

Grace Kelly filming with her camera during family holidays in Greece in 1961.

[levixwatson]

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[bendteyckermans]

‘The subject’

Oil on linen

161 x 144 cm

[50-foot-woman]

The Sticky Trigger Problem (Canon 1014 Super 8 Camera): 50 Foot Woman Episode 6

Is your Canon 1014 super 8 camera running non stop? Trigger not working or not working reliably? This week we take a look at a problem that is common with these cameras as I decide how best to handle it.

Camera: Canon 1014 Autozoom Super 8mm

Problem: Camera won’t stop running - burning footage and generally being a nuisance.

[birdy-the-artist]

Savers finds!! Not sure if the super 8 camera is working, the battery light turns on but I'm not sure how to get the motor running. The Canon works great! They're both up on my Depop and Ebay pages!

[stone-cold-groove]

Are your friends hard to take?

[miss-girl-world]

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[fiftysixthrees]

Super 8

[sirfrogsworth]

How do you take a photo of time?

I've been watching the track events at the Olympics since I was a wee lad. It was a tradition in our family. We'd gather around our ancient low-definition 19 inch CRT television and watch tiny blobs compete against other tiny blobs and root for our country.

It was a bit like watching YouTube on your phone in 144p.

Several heroes emerged.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee was amazing.

You can't forget about Flo-Jo.

And then the Olympics decided NBA players were allowed in the competition.

Which formed... The Dream Team.

Was this fair?

Well... they won each game by an average of 44 points.

So... no. It was not fair.

Though it became more fair as time went on.

But, umm... yeah. The other teams looked like the Washington Generals and the US looked like the Harlem Globetrotters if they stopped screwing around half of the game.

But my absolute favorite Olympian was a runner named Michael Johnson.

He was cool as heck.

For one thing... gold shoes.

But he also had this crazy, upright, Tom Cruise-ish sprinting style that just made him look like a running robot on the track.

And in the 1996 Atlanta games he just trounced EVERYONE. I mean, it wasn't even close.

Yikes. Those losing blobs are probably really embarrassed.

Last night I decided to invigorate my nostalgia and watch the track events again. And I got to see one of the wildest races in history.

It didn't even last 10 seconds but it was one of the most exciting sporting events I've ever witnessed. Almost every runner won the race.

After I saw that initially, I was like... who the heck won???

Even in slow motion I wasn't sure.

This was one of the closest finishes in history. There has never been a race where all 8 runners were within this margin.

The arena was silent as the winner was being confirmed. The runners just kind of paced around waiting for official word. My best guess was the Jamaican runner, Kishane Thompson. But then the loudspeaker announced Noah Lyles.

The last tiny morsel of American pride burst out of me with a big "Wooooo!"

I forgot what it was like to be proud of my country. I wish it happened more often. But this young man, despite being last place in the first 3rd of the race, turned on the afterburners and won in a photo finish.

And that's when my inner nerd took over.

Because when they showed the photo finish image, it looked super weird.

Why is the track white?

Why do all of the runners look all warpy like that QWOP game?

So I went down a research rabbit hole to figure this out.

Photo finishes are actually fascinating. The first photo finish captured the end of a horse race in 1890. But that was mostly luck and timing. The actual photo finish mechanisms weren't used until 1937.

Originally they would film the finish line through a physical slit.

And the first horsie head that appeared in that slit would be the winner. This technology ended a huge aspect of corruption in horse race fixing almost overnight.

But we have come a long way since then. And I'd like to introduce you to the Omega Scan 'O' Vision Ultimate.

This slow motion camera sits fixed on the finish line of every race. The concept of the photo finish has remained remarkably similar to the 1930s approach. The camera sensor is specially designed to only record a vertical slit.

Only the finish line itself is actually captured.

And because it limits what it records to only that slit, it can capture 40,000 frames per second to get amazing temporal resolution.

So why don't the photo finishes just look like, well... this?

That is because the camera takes a picture of time more-so than dimensional space. I guess it would be more accurate to say it *assembles* a picture of time.

As the runners cross the finish line, the camera combines all of the little strips of pictures into a single image.

It's almost like if you tried to reassemble a piece of paper after it had been shredded.

Imagine each strip of paper is a picture of ONLY the finish line, just at a slightly different point in time.

What if someone stopped on the finish line and didn't move... what would that look like?

Once they got there, the same part of their body would just be repeated.

So the right side of the photo finish picture represents earlier in time and it just assembles the image strip by strip as time passes and you literally get a picture of time itself.

NEAT!

Okay, but how do they determine the winner from the photo finish?

I mean, that shoe looks like it is ahead of Noah Lyles!

Clavicles!

The IAFF rules state the foremost part of the torso must cross the finish line first. And the endpoint of the torso is the outer end of the clavicle.

So if you get this bone across the finish line first, you win the race.

Two more fun facts!

The start of the race is actually just as carefully timed as the end of the race. There are sensors in the starting blocks of each runner.

The starting gun also has an electronic sensor.

They have determined the fastest a human can react to the sound of a gun is roughly 100 milliseconds. So if you start running before 100 milliseconds they know you didn't actually hear the gun, you just got antsy and started running too early.

And the final fun fact...

Did you notice the Omega logo at the top of the photo finish?

That isn't superimposed or added after the fact. That is captured by the camera.

But if this image is composed only of tiny little slivers, how did they get the Omega logo to show up?

That is a little display. And it is synchronized with the Scan 'O' Vision Ultimate to show a little sliver of the Omega logo for each frame captured.

So when the final image is stitched together, it looks like a cohesive logo at the top of the photo.

Pretty clever, Omega!

[zachschab]

Super 8

[glenhannah]

1978 Technology.

Flashback to the era of VHS, Super 8 films, cube flash cubes and Kodak film stock. Look at the features on that VHS player. It can record for up to 3 hours. I recall when 4 hour VHS tapes came out and you could actually record TWO movies on a tape. Later came Long Play (LP) a feature that could extend the recording time of a 4 hour tape to 8 hours. Do you have memories of this equipment!

Prices are Australian Dollars. See the Kangaroo!

Those early VHS players were big beasts weren't they?

[afrotumble]

Framed photo of Spike Lee's first camera, a Super 8 camera.

[embersofstardust]

I FOUND AN UNUSED 70S POLAROID AT AN ANTIQUE STORE LETS GOOOOOOOOO

[50-foot-woman]

Color Grading BW Super 8 Footage in Davinci Resolve: 50 Foot Woman Episode 12

This week, I'm color correcting the black and white super 8 footage I shot on my trip to Macon in DaVinci Resolve. What is different about color grading bw verses color negative? Plus, how to create an XML - a special type of file that lets me take my sequence from Premiere to DaVinci and back again.

I’ll be taking a little 1-2 week break for the holidays but I’ve got more super 8 footage to share and some really fun episodes planned for 2024!

Camera: Bell and Howell 431 Super 8mm

Film Stocks: Pro8mm Black and White ASA 200

Developed and scanned by: Pro8mm

Color graded in DaVinci Resolve

My friend Julie is a prolific photographer based in Atlanta, Georgia! Check out some of her work: https://www.juliejonesiveyphotography.com/