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1970's 8mm Movie Cameras?
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Hey guys,
Last night (Thanksgiving) my grandfathers was showing us some old home videos that he shot in the mid 1970's. He just had the footage transferred to DVD.
It was one of the coolest things ever. No sound, just an old, grainy film look, but a lot of it still had decent color, that just made you want to be there. Made me want to attempt to shoot a ski edit with the same camera really bad.
He doesn't have the camera anymore though, so I'm looking for one that would be similar. I'm kind of lost when it comes to this stuff. Almost every camera on eBay doesn't have a year attached to it.
Can anyone find me a camera on eBay that might be similar? I know it's not a lot of info. But some of these cameras look like they'll sell for $5, others for $150, so it's really hard to know.
Thanks
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BTW i'm not sure if it's 8mm or 16mm or whatever. I was just assuming 8mm because I read that somewhere.
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Be prepared to spend a lot of money
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This
I know Will Start has filmed with one before, might want to talk to him
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the cameras are really worth nothing (i paid mine 10$), but processing the film is getting expensive.
where I'm from all the labs are closing, so I had to send my 100' to Toronto for processing. It took about 2 months, and cost me 250 for about 5 minutes of rushes.
It's pretty fun to mess around with, but it is really expensive
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Developing and scanning is very expensive. And so are proper 16mm cameras, those 8mm camera's you can find for 10 bucks are usually cheap and when you are spending that much on developing you better find something that works properly.
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You want a Super 8 camera, not an 8mm camera. Super 8 film comes in cartridges that you just pop into the camera. 8mm film is just 16mm split down the middle so you need a film changing bag to load/reload. I shot a bunch of k40 years ago but you can not get it processed anymore. Pro8mm.com cuts it's own stock down from 35mm movie film and they sell packages with film, developing and digitizing. I would look for a canon 814 or similar camera on eBay. I have an 814 and a 1218 with the insane 12x zoom 1.8 lens with a massive 82mm front element.
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