Ruining a Super-8 Camera Without Really Trying...

[Alex]

If your Super-8 camera is making loud, thirsty/squeaky noises, your Super-8 camera needs lubrication.

Don't try and do this yourself!

If you don't have the camera's motor or motors lubricated by a qualified Super-8 Repair Technician, you are most likely severely damaging the motor on your Super-8 Camera. [img]rolleyes.gif[/img]

[Mike Buckles]

Are there any qualified Super 8 technicians left in the world? My camera luckily runs like a charm, and sounds fine, but I dread the day when something goes wrong! If it were a 10.00 Kodak Brownie, I wouldn't care, but it would cost a lot to replace my super 8. Mike

[TA152]

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ August 28, 2003 10:55 PM: Message edited by: S8 Booster ]</font>

[cameraguy]

Beaulieu is still in business making parts and their cameras are the only ones out there where service/repair is really doable. Everything else is on its own. There are still enough working cameras out there that the best option is to just buy another.

[Alex]

Sometimes the market prices for a product create confusion when it comes to determining if the camera should be repaired or junked.

Super-8 cameras sell for between 1/10 to 1/2 of what they sold for when new. (except for the Canon 814xls & 1014xls, and perhaps some nizo cameras, which have maintained their sale price value!)

Because of common consumer repair practices, many users of Super-8 think they should never spend more to fix a camera then what they bought it for!

At some point, this becomes an illogcial approach. For Super-8 to continue on a solid path, repair personnel need to be kept in business, and simply using Super-8 cameras until they break, then throwing them away is not a positive approach for Super-8 as a whole.

Everytime we misuse a camera, or throw it away because we can get another one cheapley, we hurt the future of Super-8 for a mere quick fix in the present.

U.T. Photo in Burbank, CA primarily repairs Canon Super-8 Cameras. They also sell reconditioned Super-8 cameras that come with 90 day warranties.

[Alex]

Super-8 Booster. How right you are. Ron at U.T. Photo told me there are 75 solder points that have to be unsoldered than resoldered to lubricate the camera.