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Old 08-03-2003, 10:50 PM
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8mm film camera... hmmm

I know no-one will post in this thread, until some newbie drags it up and says "Yeah, you should have bought a proper video camera, man!", but here goes...

Yesterday, I bought a Bell and Howell 2143XL Super 8mm film movie camera at a pawnshop, for $50 (not bad for a 23-year-old piece of spotless camera equipment, with box and manual). I've wanted a film camera like this for a while, and I finally found a proper one. Now I'm going to have my hand at making small-time, low-budget films. Should be amusing.

Anyone else here use 8mm film camera still? Any of the local fogeys use one when they were still largly prevelent? Anyone prefer digital video to analog film or vice-versa? Want to blanket-post? Respond below.
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Old 08-04-2003, 12:58 AM
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i wish i had a camera.
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Old 08-04-2003, 01:38 PM
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I can't stand digital cameras. I congratulate you on purchasing something that uses film rather than ugly, flat-looking digital crap.
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Old 08-04-2003, 02:52 PM
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I can't stand digital cameras.
That's because you're rooted firmly in the past, you old fashioned tosser.
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Old 08-04-2003, 02:56 PM
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No it's because their photos look rotten.
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Old 08-04-2003, 02:57 PM
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Who's photos? Be more specific man.
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Old 08-04-2003, 03:00 PM
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Illuvatar's.
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Old 08-04-2003, 03:02 PM
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I suppose her beard always obscures the lens or something.
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Old 08-04-2003, 03:15 PM
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As long as you don't use it to record floating blobs of color that kinda looks like Roger Waters or something!
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Old 08-04-2003, 04:14 PM
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Re: 8mm film camera... hmmm

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Originally posted by Shane G.
I know no-one will post in this thread, until some newbie drags it up and says "Yeah, you should have bought a proper video camera, man!", but here goes...

Yesterday, I bought a Bell and Howell 2143XL Super 8mm film movie camera at a pawnshop, for $50 (not bad for a 23-year-old piece of spotless camera equipment, with box and manual). I've wanted a film camera like this for a while, and I finally found a proper one. Now I'm going to have my hand at making small-time, low-budget films. Should be amusing.

Anyone else here use 8mm film camera still? Any of the local fogeys use one when they were still largly prevelent? Anyone prefer digital video to analog film or vice-versa? Want to blanket-post? Respond below.
You don't know how envious I am.
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Old 08-04-2003, 04:21 PM
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Personally, I think that if we just stayed with LPs, analog film cameras (8mm, Super 8, you know, the old stuff) and maybe Betamax tapes, the world would have been a better place. If we just improved the technology of those, but keeping analog limitations, everything would look better. Now I have to deal with MP3s burned onto ROIOs, ugly VCDs, and nasty codecs.
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Old 08-04-2003, 04:23 PM
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God Betamax sucked.
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Old 08-04-2003, 04:34 PM
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You were like 2?
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Old 08-04-2003, 04:36 PM
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And I knew even then.
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Old 08-04-2003, 04:38 PM
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