Looking to buy a super 8mm camera
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Welcome to indietalk, maul!
I grew up in Santa Barbara. Made my first dozen or so films there on
super 8. I'm a big fan of super 8. I never thought of super 8 as starting
at the bottom, it's an excellent format.
The three best - in my opinion - are:
Beaulieu 4008 ZM II - I shot two features with this camera.
Nikon R10 - the first camera I ever bought.
Canon 1041 XL-S - a solid camera with a great lens and pretty good under
low light conditions.
The others:
Canon 514 XL-S and 814 XL
Elmo 612S-XL / 1012S-XL
Bauer and Elmo make solid cameras on the lower end.
I grew up in Santa Barbara. Made my first dozen or so films there on
super 8. I'm a big fan of super 8. I never thought of super 8 as starting
at the bottom, it's an excellent format.
The three best - in my opinion - are:
Beaulieu 4008 ZM II - I shot two features with this camera.
Nikon R10 - the first camera I ever bought.
Canon 1041 XL-S - a solid camera with a great lens and pretty good under
low light conditions.
The others:
Canon 514 XL-S and 814 XL
Elmo 612S-XL / 1012S-XL
Bauer and Elmo make solid cameras on the lower end.
Hi there-
I have only used Canon's and Nizo's so this may sound quite biast, but in my opinion if you want a reasonably small, quite cheap camera, that also creates breathtaking images, you should get the Nizo S560. Here is a link to some of my films that I shot on the S560. They come up on ebay, and are usually around $100, but I just got one for under $50...
Hope this helps,
Callum
I have only used Canon's and Nizo's so this may sound quite biast, but in my opinion if you want a reasonably small, quite cheap camera, that also creates breathtaking images, you should get the Nizo S560. Here is a link to some of my films that I shot on the S560. They come up on ebay, and are usually around $100, but I just got one for under $50...
Hope this helps,
Callum
Heh, I started at the real bottom with Regular 8mm. 
Eventually going to Super 8mm and then 16mm. My favorite Super 8mm cameras were the Canon 614 and the Elmo 1012S-XL. I also used an Argus Cosina which was a real workhorse of a camera. Right now I got a jewel of a camera in the Elmo Super 106. I used to have a Bolex Reflex H8 which was converted to double Super 8.
Eventually going to Super 8mm and then 16mm. My favorite Super 8mm cameras were the Canon 614 and the Elmo 1012S-XL. I also used an Argus Cosina which was a real workhorse of a camera. Right now I got a jewel of a camera in the Elmo Super 106. I used to have a Bolex Reflex H8 which was converted to double Super 8.
First on A.P.S. just off what we called "five points" then we moved to Monticito
when I was about 15.
I never processed my own film. For all my short films I cut the film using the
standard viewers and the Hervic tape splicers. For the features we transfered
to tape.
I had a Bolex H16 converted and still have it. There was one place in LA that sold
double super8 for a few years but then they stopped. One day I went in to by
some stock and the guy behind the counter said there was no such thing as double
super 8.
Was he shocked when I pulled out a receipt from that very store.
I traded the Bolex H8-DS8 some time ago when I couldn't get DS8 filmstock anymore. I still have two Bolex H8 regular 8mm cameras. You can still get regular 8mm filmstock including in the newer Ektachrome 100D. I last shot some regular 8mm color at a Japan fest in Houston last year. Used a nice little Sanyo 8mm camera. Now I'm about to start shooting some 16mm in my newly acquired Mitchell.