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that I would venture to a clients office in Pasadena and the first thing I find is this magazine cover staring at me as soon as I enter the building from the underground parking structure!
I've never been to this clients office before, and Pasadena is 30-40 miles from me. Well, it's a super-8 camera on the cover of the current issue (July 17th, 2003) of Pasadena weekly.
Can you guess what camera that is?
<font color="#a62a2a"><font size="1">[ August 29, 2003 06:03 AM: Message edited by: cameraguy ]</font></font>
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<font size="2" face="verdana, sans-serif">Sure looks like an Elmo.Originally posted by Alex:
Can you guess what camera that is?
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ September 21, 2003 01:53 AM: Message edited by: Alex ]</font>
It looks like an elmo (that's what I thought at first), but it is a Minolta. 7-56mm??? 1.4 lens.
Which model number is that?
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<font size="2" face="verdana, sans-serif">Must be thisOriginally posted by Alex:
It looks like an elmo (that's what I thought at first), but it is a Minolta. 7-56mm??? 1.4 lens.
Which model number is that?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...&category=4691
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ September 21, 2003 01:55 AM: Message edited by: Alex ]</font>
<font color="#a62a2a"><font size="1">[ August 28, 2003 04:59 AM: Message edited by: S8 Booster ]</font></font>
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Found this on:
http://www.kolumbus.fi/puistot/m.htm
Might be the same?
<font size="2" face="verdana, sans-serif">RMinolta
XL 84 Sound
Year: 80-82
Weight: 1500 g
Lens: Rokkor Macro 1,4 / 7 - 56 mm
Macro focusing
Split Image Focusing
Auto / Manual Zoom with 2 speed
Frame rates: 18, 24 + single frame
Shutter degree: 220
Manual / Auto Exposure
Backlight Control
Fades
Remote control socket
Auto Recording Level Control
6 X AA batteries
Made in Japan
Manufacturer: Minolta
Original price in England (in the year of introduction): ?229
Recently paid in eBay net auction: $37 eBay7/99 $48 eBay 8/99 $173 eBay3/00
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ September 21, 2003 01:57 AM: Message edited by: Alex ]</font>
The Minolta XL 84 sound was my first super 8 camera, and my favorite. I loved the grip, it was so comfortable. They rarely show up on eBay, it seems.
It seems to be a cool camera. It has both 18 & 24 FPS plus manual and auto-exposure.
It's a kick to see the camera on the cover of a weekly newspapers like that. I very mildly commented to the Super-8 Film Festival people that in their publicity articles, they had a Canon Digital camera instead of a Super-8 Camera.
I wish they would check out this forum and see that it's a good thing to show off Super-8 Cameras with their publicity pushes.
And here's a link. Since the newspaper just came out...
the link is simply Pasadenaweekly.com
I just checked the article online, and noticed that the filmmaker and his film is not credited anywhere. (or did I just miss it?)
Now that I know the model number of the camera, I was emboldened to email the editor of the newspaper weekly.
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I LOVVVVEEEE the cover featuring the super-8 film camera and the director. When I read the story online, no mention was made of the person on your cover, or the name of their film. (dare I say the name of the camera was also not mentioned, a Super-8 Film Camera, a Minolta-84XLS)
As a filmmaker looking out for another filmmaker, can you credit him in your online photo? Here is a link to our forum.
I hope it's OK that we used the front of your magazine for this weeks Super-8 picture.
http://www.hostboard.com/cgi-bin/ult...ic&f=405&t=841
Here is a link to the Super-8 forum itself...
http://www.hostboard.com/cgi-bin/ult...ic&f=405&t=841
-Alex
On further review, [img]redface.gif[/img] , they did mention the filmmaker and the name of his film, but they didn't mention he was the one in the picture.
Here is a quote from the filmmaker who is temporarily featured on the cover of our Super-8 forum.....
?The festival allows an avenue for a group of people to be exposed,? said Thomas Fernando Trail, director of ?Klepto,? (showing at 7:15 p.m. July 29), a Los Angeles resident whose mother is Argentinean and father is American.
I'll guess Minolta.
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