Just sold my Elmo 240 SXL

[tom hardwick]

Just sold my Elmo 240 SXL. I bought it in 1984 and shot a lot of film through it. You know what set this camera apart from a lot of other much more expensive cameras? Including the Canon 1014 XLS? NO SOUND GAPS!

Yes, with this little unpretentious Elmo you could film a guy with a chain saw, stop, change position, stop, zoom in and so on and lo! Play the film back and have a perfectly continuous sound track, not even the tiniest dropout at scene changes.

A-A-Mazing. How did they do that? how do you get Super8 film to accelerate from standstill to 3" per second in no time at all? For this is precicely what happened, otherwise you'd get a sound gap. Wouldn't yo Sankyo, Canon, Beaulieu, Braun?

I was sad to see it go. But the Canon 1014E stays with me. That beastie is some sort of 70s icon, and is beautiful to behold.

tom.

[Alex]

After following Mike Brantley's transaction...did yours go smoothly....or is the lesson here....don't sell your Super-8 cameras, you'll dearly miss it.

I noticed with the Elmo 1012xls, in the single frame mode when using sound film, it actually would record sound!

-Alex

[This message has been edited by Alex (edited March 19, 2001).]

[Alex]

Wow, I went archive post diving and found this post on the first achive page I tried!

That must mean I spend too much time on this site!

-Alex

[This message has been edited by Alex (edited May 03, 2001).]