53 years old DC Motor and electronic card repair

[Bill Burk]

Umut is dedicated to Leica, and would probably not want a Bell & Howell.

I had a Bell & Howell, a hand-crank single-8 camera with three-lens turret and single frame mode.

I keep looking for that movie I shot with mine because I can show what fun it was to use a movie camera in single frame mode, as if it was a regular camera. It was a blast.

 

[Dan Fromm]

Umut is dedicated to Leica, and would probably not want a Bell & Howell.

More evidence that Leicanuts are nuts.

 

[Bill Burk]

Here's what you might get if you use a single-8 movie camera in single frame mode:

 

[Dan Fromm]

Bill, 8 mm film nomenclature confuses everyone. Single 8 is Fuji's riposte to Super 8; same gauge and format as Super 8 in a cassette with separate feed and take-up spools, can be spliced with Super 8.

For those who don't know, 8/8's camera gate is ~ 3.5 mm x ~ 4.8 mm. Tiny. Super 8's (and Single 8) is ~ 4.2 x ~ 5.8. Not quite so tiny. Kodak's disc camera (8 x 11) is said to have failed in the market because of limited enlargeability.

 

[Bill Burk]

Ah, right Dan,

My old camera used Regular-8, Double-8 or just 8mm - the kind that comes in a 25-foot reel that you run through once, flip over, run through again and then after processing it has to be slit.

 

[AgX]

Agfa came up at the end of the S-8 era with their "Family" cine-system:

A most simple Super-8 camera that got two buttons, one for cine- and one for still-photography (single frame exposure). The appropriate (8x10cm screen) projector would freeze at a still-frame. One model of that projector also had the ability to make a Polaroid print of the same size from that still.


It was no succes. Not necessarily due to the tiny film image.