Are there people out here shooting 8mm still film

arnoud bakker

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Hello,I was wondering if there are people who use their
8mm cam as a still film cam, (with a possibility to shoot with a motordrive of (in my case) 54frames a sec.

I own a leicina RT-1 and when I go on holiday I take this magical camera with me,
with a bulk roll of 3660 frames, an extreme telelens and a real fast motordrive for action photography. I like it
is there a low fi thread for it? (Istanbul 2011 cats and dogs)

 

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There aren't many STILL 8mm cameras to choose from. The popular ones are the Bolsey -- shaped like a tiny movie camera (with a Mamiya RB67 film advance lever) -- and the Suzuki models, hidden in cigarette lighter cases.

https://www.subclub.org/shop/8mmcams.htm

These cameras are easy to find, but offer LOMOGRAPHY results, and dealing with 8mm film takes patience.

For those who want sharper results from tiny film, the various Minox-film cameras offer more features using 9.2mm film.
 

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xkaes said:
the various Minox-film cameras offer more features using 9.2mm film.
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Not to mention they tend to be smaller overall, but with roundly twice the image area and AWESOME lenses.
 

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Alan Edward Klein said:
I still have my 8mm film camera that shoots single frames. Problem is 8mm film isn't available. You need super 8mm.
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The Suzuki Optical 8mm cigarette lighter cameras used 8mm film, but not the "regular" or Super 8mm. It used 16mm film that is cut down the middle.
 

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xkaes said:
The Suzuki Optical 8mm cigarette lighter cameras used 8mm film, but not the "regular" or Super 8mm. It used 16mm film that is cut down the middle.
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Would the 16mm sprocket holes and film size cut down the middle fit the old cameras of 70 years ago?
 

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The spacing of 16mm holes is different from 8mm film holes. 8mm has more holes than 16mm. That may or may not make a difference in certain cameras.
 

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Harry Callahan said:
Yes. There also is Fomapan 100 in Double 8 now, if you wanted to do prints anyway:
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And Ortho 400 - also a negative film - just in case you want a bit more grain in your 8mm prints ;-)

The Zeiss Ikon Movikon 8 has a very nice still camera-like design and shoots single shots if that is what you want.

However, it feels like a solid block of metal (around 1kg) so the primary benefit is that you have endless film supplies in camera.

Here's mine:

 

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Thanks for that picture. That's the strangest film plate set-up I've even seen!!! A mirror would have been a lot easier.
 

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When on holiday in the seventies a person staying in our hotel used a small cine camera with one or two second bursts.
I thought at the time it would be a nightmare watching his home movies.
It was a long time later that I wondered if he was using the camera for a few stills.

If it wasn't for making stills, his audience has my sympathy.
 
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