Well I got my batteries and repaired my light seals and actually went out into the world and took some footage. Who expected that? First is my block of units, then the pool out the back. Then you have chantal at the aroma cafe, with her sore wisdom teeth.Then you have north terrace as we [...]
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
By express post, they mean express. I officially places my order for my two rolls of 64T yesterday morning, about 8AM. It arrived today, picked it up at the post office at 11. Can’t beat that.
Monday, September 29, 2008
A while ago…well, ok, 2 years ago, I bought a super-8 camera at a garage sale for $10. A Nikon Super-zoom 8. I had a 50ft roll of Kodachrome 40 to play around with, but the batteries were dated and the thing could do with a clean up. The Kodachrome ended up getting ruined when [...]
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 It was of course superseded by Video technology, as people moved from the movie projector to the VHS.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 [...]