How old were you when you first shot a roll of sup

**miguelito** · July 11th, 2001, 04:53 AM

I was around 12 years old when I shot my
first roll with my dad's Kodak Instamatic.
I've been hooked ever since.

**Nigel** · July 11th, 2001, 04:57 AM

I was 8. The camera was an Argus I still have it and use t every now and again. I wasn't hooked but I sure as hell loved it.

It wasn't until I was a freshman in college that I knew I was "Hooked".

**Hanthx** · July 11th, 2001, 05:10 AM

I was 21
The camera
Kodak instamatic
The camera broke when I pulled the trigger.
Glad it wasnt my camera
It was my friend's Dads.
So started my filmmaking adventures.

Sc0tt

**Mikko** · July 11th, 2001, 07:04 AM

It was 1996, I was 19.
I bought a Sankyo XL-255 (or something)
I costed me about 4 bucks.
First roll of film: maybe 2/3 of it was totaly black.
Second film few months later, outdoors: I forgot the lightning meter to manual: Very over exposed.
Oh, and I didn't have a projector.
When I finaly got one borrowed projector, I burned a hole to my film.
But this didn't let me down, my third roll was a clay animation, and it went quite well (exepept when I tried to edit it, but that's another story)

M

**jocko** · July 11th, 2001, 09:59 AM

First film in 4th grade..we did drawing om 16mm film set to music..I did a yo-yo going up and down to Donnie osmonds song.."like a yo-yo"..and won a mini academy award..made by the teacher(I still have it)...I was hooked..saved and bought my first super-8 camera(canon)..then became the kid filmaker from hell..
Neil
JOCKO FILMS

**cameraguy** · July 11th, 2001, 11:03 AM

It was about 1979. I was 8 and my brother and I shot a half a roll where I held a stryafoam plane and he filmed it as we went through the yard. Then we torched it and filmed that too, what fun!! The footage went unseen until 1998 when it was found hidden in a cabinet. THe camera was a Kodak M28 which I still have though it is dead now. We also use to chase the dog with the camera running cause he hated the sound it made. Maybe we should have named the dog "blimp".......

**ekoe** · July 11th, 2001, 10:50 PM

i was 25. would you believe i had never shot super8 until AFTER filmschool? after shooting miles of 16mm? that really makes you appreciate the cost savings of super8. and the ease of the format.
i went into filmschool with a background in still photography and i was pretty damn purist in my approach. i didn't have much interest in super8 because the surface area is soo small. but i realized that 'art is derived by it's limitations', and super8 is a perfect example of this statement.
also, filmschool left me poor. i used to sell blood to pay for film and processing.
i was given the ultimatum of shooting super8 or video. that's when i fell in love with this damn format.

**chas_ucla** · July 12th, 2001, 03:13 AM

I was about 12. My friend Rory had a B&H...can't recall the exact model. We shot a stop-motion G.I. Joe vs. the Blob film. The Blob was made out of play-doh. Only we didn't have enough play-doh so the blob was about the size of a golf ball. Still he was able to smother the G.I. Joes' faces quite effectively. After two weeks of filming Rory and I had "creative differences" over where the story was going and we stopped talking to each other for over a year!

**David17** · July 17th, 2001, 06:51 PM

I was seventeen when I shot my first roll of Super8 film during a holiday in Norway in 2000. The results where very nice and since then I have shot around 25 rolls on Super8. The last time I filmed on Super8 was during a school trip to a French monestry, Taiz?. I will project the result at school.

David