[Frameworks] Double-8 camera ---> 16mm projection

Esperanza Collado esperanzacollado1 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 30 11:44:56 UTC 2021


Yes, indeed, so it should be alright to project 8mm from a 16mm projector.
But I never tried.

El mar, 30 nov 2021 a las 12:30, Thomas Bartels (<mail at thomasbartels.eu>)
escribió:

> Double-8 film has twice as many perforation holes than 16mm has.
> The claw in your 8mm camera only caught every second hole.
>
> Thomas Bartels
> https://vimeo.com/thomasbartels
>
> Esperanza Collado <esperanzacollado1 at gmail.com> hat am 30.11.2021 11:10
> geschrieben:
>
>
> Thank you everyone!
>
> Jeff, I didn't explain myself properly: I used single perf 16mm on a 8mm
> camera. I therefore could not get the other half of the film exposed so I
> wondered if double-perf 16mm would do the trick. That was an old Bolex 8mm
> camera and the film run smoothly in it... In any case, there seems to be
> little 16mm stock with double perf now, and on double-8 and double-S8 I
> only found those Fomapan stocks, b&w reversal.
>
> Roger, thanks for the link. Would be great to watch the whole piece if you
> can find it.
>
> Sandy and all the rest, thank you. Albert, I didn't know that film by
> Chris and it's very interesting!
>
> We could use double-8 on this little Bolex, but I guess this won't be
> projectable on a 16mm projector? As I said  my single perf 16mm strip run
> smoothly in the camera, but the truth is, when projected, images seemed a
> bit out of projector's gate. I attached a still, heavily interlaced, so
> maybe not a very good example.
>
> El mié, 24 nov 2021 a las 23:17, Jeff Kreines (<jeff at kinetta.com>)
> escribió:
>
> You can’t use double perf 16 film on a double 8 camera as it lacks half
> the required perfs.  You can shoot Double 8 in a 16mm camera.
>
> Louis Hock’s film Silent Reversal is a good example of this.
>
> Jeff Kreines
> Kinetta
> jeff at kinetta.com
> kinetta.com
>
> Sent from iPhone.
>
> > On Nov 24, 2021, at 3:48 PM, Esperanza Collado <
> esperanzacollado1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have used double-8 once and it's interesting, as you can use double
> perf 16mm film...
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