Now that I have a working camera — now comes the hard part (and the part I dread) — trolling ebay for film. There are 2 types of film that I…
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I met Rudy at a Starbucks in West Portal. It didn’t register at first that he was the guy I had been communicating with all week over email, but after about…
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I’m meeting a guy at starbucks this weekend to check out a potential super-8 camera match. $200 cash. Hope it works out so I can get the show on the road.…
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I placed a bid on a canon xl814 via ebay, only to be sniped the last minute. With all the shipping costs, it was just too expensive. Alternately, I found 2…
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More work hours spent googling, convincing myself that it was the connection; that soldering would fix it.I carefully took the camera apart tonight, trying to understand the mechanism, and also to…
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It’s already February, and no progress has been made. I tried replacing the batteries of my kodak, cleaning the contacts again, trying to rig a ghetto contact using tinfoil (stupid idea),…
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On the plus side: I received my manual. A tiny little thing that doesn’t offer much information. On the negative side: I realized this weekend that I had been filming…nothing. No…
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I spent a weekend fidgeting with my dad’s Kodak XL350 Super 8mm. It has been boxed up, unused, for over 20 years, as far as I can tell. The last (and…
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the fleet of cameras (will update with more details later): Kodak XL-350 Description: Automatic zoom camera from late 1970s. My dad’s old camera that I found with his things after he…