I recently went on a walk with my wife and the Cmena8 loaded with Ilford Pan 100 negative filmstock. We also took the Quartz Zoom with us, but that footage is not yet processed.
I have the still photographs to show though. I scanned the negatives myself with my Canon Canoscan 4400F scanner.
Click for more pictures with the Cmena8 with Ilford Pan100.
I had a roll of Fomapan R100, so on a shining winter afternoon I took my Cmena8 to capture some shadows. These are some of the pictures. It is not scanned, it was projected and then digitally photographed. A scan would have a lot better quality, maybe in the future I will have them scanned for the better results.
Another re-scan of my older films. The new scan reveals even more that the Nizo Professional we used had serious image stability problems. It was not used for about 20 years, maybe that was the reason. Later on, other films had more stable results. Those I will get re-scanned later.
The shot was taken in Budapest at the Tomb of Gül Baba a turkish official residing in Hungary in the middle ages. Gül Baba's octagonal tomb (türbe) is located on Mecset (mosque) Street, Budapest, a short but steep walk from the Margaret Bridge in the district of Rózsadomb.
The tomb was built by Mehmed Paşa, beylerbeyi of Buda, between 1543 and 1548 and has a shallow dome covered with lead plates and wooden tiles. (wikipedia)
At the end there is a time lapse of Móricz Zsigmond körtér.
I had two of my films re-scanned in 1080p. You can see the scratches caused by the filmgate of the Nizo Professional which we used.The camera is clearly in need of maintenance.
Szilárd (SzilasLab) has successfully processed my first standard 8mm footage of the Quartz Zoom. I had issues with the film forwarding mechanism so it is about 80% okay.
I don't think it is worth for scanning though. The parallax error of the viewfinder is slightly bigger than factory standard and it is also a little bit off to the right side. Anyway, I projected and recorded it with my Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3.
Meanwhile I found a BW super 8mm filmstock available in Hungary. That is the Adox Pan Reverso Super 8mm film. I am planning to buy a cartridge and shoot it with one of the Nizo's.
Tonight I uploaded a video to YouTube about the details of the Quartz 3 Zoom. You can find the video at the end of this post, but if you have a Quartz Zoom without manual, I suggest to read the post first.
Tonight I post a small selection of Kodachrome slides I have from the 60s and 70s. Some of them I could identify some not. Feel free to comment if you know when or whereabouts. The first one here was easy, she is a lady in Paris sometime in the 60s - 70s.
The Quartz Zoom has a 3/8 inch diameter socket for tripods while my tripod has 1/4 inch diameter screw. The solution is a little adapter from Hama that can be turned into the Quartz's socket making the diameter only 1/4 inch long. This simple it is.
Today I bought the adapter for about 0.80 EUR. Now the Quartz can be mounted to my tripod and this makes possible to shoot single frames with a cable release.
Tonight I will give it a go. For more pictures click read more then scroll down.
For me photography is a rather difficult thing to do. I am not much of a composer. Of course when I found my godfather's old Cmena 8 camera I took some pictures with it. I was not very satisfied with the result that time (back in 1998). So I borrowed a Zenit and Praktica type camera which were both mirror reflex cameras.
As I grew older I became more attracted to analog film and I also had to give the lended cameras back to their owners. Later on Lomography became a trend so I started to use the simple and let's say not that high quality Cmena to shoot some pictures with again. Bad quality sort of became a trend that I liked.
I took the Cmena to family trips, once even to Prague. With the many years between using my Cmena I always had to re-learn the basics of film photography. I told you I am totally amateur.
Not much to do in the 8mm intro project this weekend, but there is more to come next week. On Tuesday night I will give the footage to Szilárd Szilas for processing. He works in Emőd and Budapest, Hungary. He has a Facebook page under the name SzilasLab. I very much recommend him. Later next week or the week after we will have the telecine process at keskenyfilm.hu. Besenyei Zalán is said to be an expert on 2K scanning.
We will see.
Meanwhile I probably introduce my Smena8 Still Camera and some pictures I made with it.
I am planning to have an intro on my YouTube channel that would show up before my videos. I can't tell much details, but I can say that tonight it took about an hour of hard work to properly load the camera (in total darkness in order to have longer shooting time) and then filming some parts of my ideas.
Today afternoon I checked the faulty mechanism again. I made a few unsuccessful phone calls this morning to have an expert for the task but in the end I had to take the courage to act myself. My initial thought was that gun oil should do it. The machine was halted for decades, the motor, the springs are 51 years old, probably the original lubricant is the sinner in this case. At least that was what I hoped for.
The first footage I tried was a failure. The film was forwarded but not the proper way, thus the film broke away. At a first glance there was nothing special with the film forwarding mechanism but after the problem occurred I realized that one little knob that is supposed to turn the cartridge has several difficulties during forwarding to turn at all. This looks a minor problem since it is moving mostly, but in the end it is enough for a film jam.
Tonight I uploaded a video to YouTube about the details of the Quartz 3 Zoom. You can find the video at the end of this post, but if you have a Quartz Zoom without manual, I suggest to read the post first. 
Tonight I post a small selection of Kodachrome slides I have from the 60s and 70s. Some of them I could identify some not. Feel free to comment if you know when or whereabouts. The first one here was easy, she is a lady in Paris sometime in the 60s - 70s. 
Today afternoon I checked the faulty mechanism again. I made a few unsuccessful phone calls this morning to have an expert for the task but in the end I had to take the courage to act myself. My initial thought was that gun oil should do it. The machine was halted for decades, the motor, the springs are 51 years old, probably the original lubricant is the sinner in this case. At least that was what I hoped for.
The first footage I tried was a failure. The film was forwarded but not the proper way, thus the film broke away. At a first glance there was nothing special with the film forwarding mechanism but after the problem occurred I realized that one little knob that is supposed to turn the cartridge has several difficulties during forwarding to turn at all. This looks a minor problem since it is moving mostly, but in the end it is enough for a film jam. 