The Super 8 thread

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Hooray for small format filmmaking!

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the way Super 8 makes everything look like it was filmed in 1967.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Sunday, 24 August 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

(I actually use regular 8mm) - but that's the great thing about it. Anything I shoot right now automatically looks old school.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 24 August 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.savonarolamustburn.com/rolls/0001/200308xx-t.jpg

My camera. And Cex in the background.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 30 August 2003 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

What's the best way to light for super 8? I was always told it is better to overexpose and go one stop higher than with other formats.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 8 December 2003 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know about that, but my personal preference with all film stock in general is to take it down a stop and underexpose. I got some very good results with this recently with 35mm stills.

Wish I could tell you about Super8, but I still haven't seen the footage we shot last month for the Grand Buffet music video, since it's still at the lab waiting to be telecined.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 8 December 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

fuq super8, it's all about the pxl2k

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

rockist.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 04:55 (twenty-two years ago)

F THAT
I HAVE A CAMERA
THE RECORDS ON OLD BUBBLE GUM WRAPPERS
BOOYAH

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Overexposure will minimize grain and deepen shadows, at the cost of highlights blowing out. I assume grain is the reason that's recommended for 8mm.

(FWIW, with still film, I overexpose everything by one or two stops if possible, when highlights aren't going to blow way-the-hell-out.)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I like when they blow out!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 11 December 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

You're into that, eh?

― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 11 December 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

it turns me on

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 12 December 2003 08:31 (twenty-two years ago)

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