A while ago I got a few large (I mean large) bundles of old photography magazines. Mostly Australian Photography and Camera and Cine magazine. These two are still active today, at least in name, so it’s rather interesting. What’s more, it’s incredible the amount of information contained within them. One issue makes mention that sadly [...]
Super 8 was introduced in 1965 by Kodak as a new home-movie format. You can see my in depth examination of a Super-8 cartridge [here], achieved with a knife and some curious determination. It was of course superseded by Video technology, as people moved from the movie projector to the VHS. Super-8 is a variant [...]
Mercury batteries provide a pretty consistent voltage over the course of their life, so this was quite an ideal choice when designing a camera back in the day. Light meters require an solid voltage to be accurate, so using mercury batteries was a pretty good way to skirt the added cost of a voltage stabaliser [...]
Just figured I’d post pictures of my R2A ([which I wrote a lot about earlier]), and the very very cool AE-1P I bought off Lily.
Now I realise I’m ruining a now reasonably rare Kodachrome Super-8 cartridge here, but it was flooded when my fridge decided to defrost itself and I’m pretty sure it’s ruined, full of water when I got to it. I found it in a broken super-8 camera someone gave me and it’s been in my draw [...]