Topic: Agfa Family Set

[Thom Stone]

Just found one of these complete sets on my local Freecycle! have messaged them about it, was hoping to shoot my bands first music video on super 8 so would be really cool to digitalise it by filming the screen on the projector :-p we also have a proper projector and screen which we could do some funky stuff with im sure.

anyway does anyone have any experience with these? any tips/tricks?

also does anyone know of the effect of cross processing the reversal films for these? How similar is the processing?

would it be possible (god forbid) to do something insanely crazy like respooling the film reversed for redscale?!

I have a few cine cameras knocking round but have never really bothered with them as of  yet. think this will kickstart me a bit.


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AGFA-FAMILY-CINE-CAMERA-PROJECTOR-AND-PRINT-UNIT-/270769915094?pt=UK_Photography_VintageCameras_SM&hash=item3f0b2504d6

[Miles]

Hi Thom, a friend of mine has one, and I have the camera from one, they are bad 

The little screen is cool.

[Thom Stone]

bad is good :-) want it to look all crap, just want something completely different to all these HD canon eos 5DmkIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII music videos you see around, its crap. they are always in woods and always pin sharp and not a spec of dust, its boring!

anyway if it is way tooo crap I have back ups. anyway the screen is pretty cool and thats the main thing I want

[Francois]

I know that the processing involves super big stainless reels if you want to do the DIY route. Special gear.

There are also DIY telecine tricks like this
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/01/diy-telecine-converts-film-to-video.html

[will_8]

I recently got given a super 8 camera so I've done a bit of research into it, but I haven't used it yet.

With the cross processing - the director of a film called Three Kings used cross processing with Kodak Ektachrome. I haven't seen it but it might be worth watching to see how it came out. I think it uses E-6 processing so I'm guessing he processed it in C-41

If you can re-spool a super 8 casette then I'm sure redscaling would work! (Assuming it works with reversal film).

[Francois]

If you can re-spool a super 8 casette then I'm sure redscaling would work! (Assuming it works with reversal film).

That is if a remjet coating wasn't used on the film

[Miles]

Cool addition Thom ... ?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AGFA-FAMILY-PRINTER-/260818474308?pt=UK_Photography_VintageCameras_SM&hash=item3cb9fe1544