First super 8 mm footage

This was kind of an interesting story how I met super 8mm format. A good friend of mine (a talented amateur photographer with many awards since) sort of inherited a filming package, containing an external light meter, an EUMIG Mark 810 D projector, and most importantly a Braun Nizo Professional Super 8mm motion picture camera. We had been talking about making movies from the early 2000's and there you go, just as a miracle, suddenly there was the flagship of Braun Nizo in our hands in extreamly good condition. It only lacked the battery box which we could easily substitute with an external battery pack (you can get the original from the super8exchange website.) On the picture below you can see our camera.

Our Braun Nizo Professional Super 8mm motion picture camera

It was a summer early morning, still dark, with a cloudy sky when we set up to take the first motion pictures with the camera. The film we intended to use was Kodak's Ektachrome 64t. A slow reversal film that gives fine grain and a high "resolution". I have a book about amateur filming and it says that reversal slow filmstock, when properly lit internal or used in a proper way external can give a very high image quality in super 8mm format. 

Lectori salutem

This was the year 1999 when I first discovered analog film. A classmate of mine - later became a professional photojournalist - showed me some BW photos taken with an old USSR Zenit camera. Ten years later I met Super 8mm motion picture film format and did some test shots with it.

This blog should be operated by my love towards good old fashioned film. I am totally amateur.

I just love film and I cannot tell you why.