Cine-kodak magazine 8

[gorilla36]

I just purchased a Cine-Kodak Magazine 8 camera at a rummage sale, it came with case lenses and even some unopened film from 1959, i would like to know if this camera is capable of using super-8 and if so can i get around using a projector, (i.e. is there any service that will turn it into DV) as i would like to work with the film on my Mac.  Thanks for any help you can give.

[Colorburst300]

Is it a wind up camera? If it is, it takes a double 8mm cartridge. It's not super 8. The cartridge is hard to find, but if you do find one, the film is 16mm size and you shoot on both sides of it (flip the cart. over). Then they cut in in half after processing. I had something similar to this but I found it useless and threw it out. It had no value to me. Save the film though, as mentioned before. Even though it's no good anymore, it is definately a cool vintage item to keep on your shelf or sell on eBay.

~M

[BolexPlusx]

Hi,
If it can take a roll of film that was made in 1959 then it isn't capable of running a Super-8 cartridge. (Those were put on the market in 1965.)

It's not the end of the world though, it is probably a Regular 8 camera and you can still get film for it.

Roger Evans has a transfer service for Regular-8.

http://www.moviestuff.tv/transfers.html

I'm sure there are others too.

If you haven't opened that 1959 film then please don't! It is photographically useless, but I'll bet somebody would enjoy having it on their shelf.