To any movie maker, the choice of what filmstock to use is such an important decision. Think of it in similar terms to an artist choosing not just a colour palette, but also what brushes, canvas and painting style all at the same time. Film emulsions vary quite considerably in what results they produce, so let’s explore the reasons why this is the case.
Negative or Reversal
This decision usually tends to be impacted not only by what result you’d…

Apparently Leo has been advertising his services on ebay, and has now got his own website. Reports from filmshooting.com’s forum sound really promising, so Analog Movies will be testing out his services very soon. It’s nice to see that colour reversal, outdated reversal, negative and black and white can all be processed now in one place, at a lower cost than sending it to Andec in Germany.

Just heard about a brand new Super 8 filmmaking site:
“A new website with lectures [all free to access] which are about working with Super 8 film. We will be updating the site regularly with new lectures, hopefully covering every aspect of Super 8 filmmaking in the digital age. We are also excited about making some short films which will be put on the site, obviously they will all be made on Super 8, they will show off how cheap,…

I started to use 8mm film about 10 years ago after becoming fascinated with the cameras.  I had always been a keen film photographer since inheriting my grandfathers Olympus om10 as a young teenager so most analogue equipment was/is of great interest.  After some time researching the equipment and sourcing the film i began to experiment with shooting my first reels.  Fortunately at that time you could still buy Kodachrome K40 in the photo shop so this made things much…

“a very unique opportunity to shoot this while processing is still available. The ability to shoot Kodachrome uninterrupted for 13 minutes is fantastic, and running a processed film through a sound projector is something we should be really sad to see go.”