Newbie

[noble]

Hello
I am totally new to Super8. I just acquired a Bauer C6. I was wondering if anyone knows if this takes normal Super8 film like the Kodak talked about in previous threads or what it needs. Also, how much can you shoot on a normal cartridge? Is it expensive to develop? Thanks a bunch. Joe

[Screener]

Yes, you can load a standard super 8 cartridge.
If you shoot at 18 frames per second, it's 3 a little more than three minutes, at 24 frames per second, a little more than two minutes. (SOmebody else chime in here, I still haven't had my coffee)

As to being expensive... only you can decide that. Depending on what filmstock you shoot, where you buy your film, and where you have it processed, and how much it costs to ship it back and forth, and what speed you shoot at... figure about eight to ten dollars a minute for finished film.

Quite a bit more expensive than tape... much less expensive than 16 mm, a HECK of a lot cheaper than 35mm

[Screener]

That eight to ten dollar quote includes the cost of purchasing the film...

[noble]

Thanks a lot...I'll check it out. Do you know how many feet of film is in a normal super8 cartridge...so i can calculate how much it will be to get transferred to minidv? Does $.15 a foot sound high? Thanks.

[Screener]

There is exactly 50 feet of film in a super eight cartridge.

A word about transferring. Some systems are more expensive than others, because they are better.

The simplest way to transfer footage is to aim a camera at a screen and record it. This requires a projector that has a variable speed motor in order to sync the frame rate with video. (For example, a film shot at 18fps must be shown at 20fps... combined with the three bladed shutter of the projector, this yields 6o images per second, which syncs up perfectly with the 30 frames/60fields of ntsc video). With footage shot at 24 frames per second, you need a two bladed shutter... then it gets complicated. Of course, changing the speed of playback changes the look of the film.

Some labs use telecine with pull-down, which converts the film playback rate to match the video rate by doubling the fourth frame... follow me?

Some labs use a work printer

Some labs use a wet-gate rank cintel.

Do a search for all of this and read up on it.

Good luck