Super8- time lapse, slow, and inexpensive? help

[chaunceytanton]

Looking for a recommended super8 with time lapse, slow motion, quality images and inexpensive...Which one should i get?? thanks. chaunce.choisir

[BolexPlusx]

Hmm,

I cover this with two cameras.

1) Time Lapse

Minolta XL-401, (or XL-400 or XL-601)

Any of these has a pretty useful intervalometer for time lapse.

2)Slow Motion

GAF ST/602, (or ST/802) has 36 FPS slow motion.

Either of these is often available on E-Bay for not a lot of money. I've shot a lot of film with both and really like the image quality. The Minolta is a nice travel camera as well, as despite having a number of nice features it's pretty small and lightweight.

[jukkasil]

Revue TM8 (made by Eumig)

- It has speed like single frame,9,18,24 and 45 fps, 8 x zoom (Schneider lens), auto/manual exposure, manual/auto zoom, macro and it is very small and light.

- It has also very versatile (stepless) intervalometer + possibility to shoot time exposure footage.

I bought one from ebay.de, costed me 5 Euro (5 USD).
I have shot with it one K40 roll, but haven't yet received it back from Kodak Lausanne.

Just check from www.ebay.de these cameras, the normal price range of Revue TM8 there is from 1 to 15 Euro. So very cheap and versatile little camera.

Here is one example of auction:

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...tem=1389847010

Just ask a seller, if he speak English and could ship the camera outside of Germany.

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[Hanthx]

I would go with the Minolta, the Rokkor lens is very nice (it's no Schnieder) and produces great images. The first few films I shot on super 8 were with a Minolta.
Good cameras for a bargain, and plenty of them around.

Scott