Super 8 Camera Re-Repair

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  • @ChrisB...
    @ChrisB... 2 місяці тому +6

    I went through a Super8 phase around 1990 when there were TONS of them in thrift stores, right before digital video took over. I ended up with a French made Beaulieu 4008zmii from 1971 (and a Beaulieu R16 16mm), which is completely obsolete but remains a piece of art from the peak of super8. It looks like a ray gun from a 50's sci fi movie!

  • @LeesChannel
    @LeesChannel 2 місяці тому +9

    With only 2½ minutes of run time, our forefathers had to be very expedient when making dirty home movies.

    • @BenHeckHacks
      @BenHeckHacks  2 місяці тому +3

      Got another camera since then, had unopened film from 1978 with a price tag, 4.25 which means $20 today. That's just the film development would have been extra.

    • @LeesChannel
      @LeesChannel 2 місяці тому

      @BenHeckHacks A small price to pay for Kodachrome filthery.

  • @slegendary6003
    @slegendary6003 2 місяці тому +4

    19:59 sort of..
    In BTTF 2 when Biff has the argument with Terry at the Western Auto over the $300 cleanup after having his car detailed from the manure truck crash in the town square, Terry finishes by saying "This is last time I do you a favor Biff! The last time!"
    I'm guessing that after the second manure truck crash just outside the River Road Tunnel, Biff probably wasn't welcome back to the Western Auto to have his car fixed, so he had to clean it up himself, and therefore became an Auto Detailer as a result. Similar outcome can be said in the BTTF 1 ending, where Biff, left without many career options after having nobody to do his homework for him in high school after George knocked him out, decides that there's probably reasonable money to be made detailing cars, after having to pay $300 himself to have his car cleaned/detailed.

  • @grumpy2.0
    @grumpy2.0 2 місяці тому +3

    You doing an impression of an Australian doing an impression of an American actor playing the descendant of German immigrants.
    Not sure where I'm going with this. But it made me giggle.

  • @John-1984
    @John-1984 2 місяці тому +2

    Ed Burns is the guy that does the voice over for the B&H ads.
    I buy a lot of my film from B&H and the Film Photography Store. I highly recommend both if you're a film shooter.

  • @jasonm5874
    @jasonm5874 2 місяці тому +1

    I felt the SNAP of that contact. Been there and off to the parts bin...

  • @brianm6337
    @brianm6337 2 місяці тому +1

    9:08 Now, see- they could have done *the* most tasteless Indy film ever- Henry Jones Senior's Last Adventure:
    "He wants his ashes scattered *where*???"

  • @sunderark
    @sunderark 2 місяці тому +1

    This was like a pop culture quote omnibus for the ages.

  • @woj95
    @woj95 2 місяці тому +6

    Silent? 2.5min runtime? So... It's basically analog gif maker?

    • @MattExzy
      @MattExzy 2 місяці тому +2

      GIFs and UFO footage, yes!

  • @gstcomputing65
    @gstcomputing65 2 місяці тому +4

    Was this the type of film that Clark Griswold was watching when he was stuck in the attic?

    • @RickTheGeek
      @RickTheGeek 2 місяці тому +1

      Possibly, or maybe 16mm

    • @tim_brooks
      @tim_brooks 2 місяці тому +1

      @@gstcomputing65 more likely it was standard 8mm, given when it was supposed to have been shot.

  • @muzkat101
    @muzkat101 Місяць тому

    Aside from me, you are the first person I've ever heard make a logical comment on time travel... thank you, Mr. Ben Heck Hacks -- a genius and a scholar; not many of us left here on this rock. I've made that comment before, along with the issues of topography and geography. But ending up deep underground or under the sea, let alone space, let alone arriving in-between some rock or building structure (Philidelphia Experiment) unprotected are not the types of spontaneous adventures through time I care to make. Even at best, if we could dial in some kind of 4D coordinates, we'd need to know them precisely at first, right?

  • @1pcfred
    @1pcfred 2 місяці тому +1

    Ben needs more tools. He should get a jewelers hand vise. They're useful for holding small parts when you have to tool those small parts. It beats running power tools into your fingers.

  • @muzkat101
    @muzkat101 Місяць тому

    Broken terminal: when one problem become one more... always the case when repairing old items.

    • @patrickmclaughlin7023
      @patrickmclaughlin7023 Місяць тому +1

      Every 10 minute job is only one broken bolt away from a 3 day ordeal.

    • @muzkat101
      @muzkat101 Місяць тому

      @@patrickmclaughlin7023 😝👍

  • @JasonTHutchinson
    @JasonTHutchinson Місяць тому

    I saw BTTF2 in the theater and some of those deleted scenes were in the version I watched. The part where Biff disappears was there, as well as the school in the alternate 1985. I actually saw all 3 movies when they came out.

  • @wafflezoot
    @wafflezoot 2 місяці тому +2

    Vaseline is a dielectric grease, I have taken to putting that on my battery spring terminals to prevent corrosion.. Seems to work thus far.

  • @holderbee7811
    @holderbee7811 2 місяці тому +3

    5:37 That's what she said

  • @redkf
    @redkf 2 місяці тому

    It's a good thing that it's a silent camera, imagine trying to hear any sound over that motor

  • @roytherocketparsons9096
    @roytherocketparsons9096 2 місяці тому

    Trying to remember all the quotes from the movies and tv shows so Ben doesnt feel crazy alone

  • @WrathChild-NZ
    @WrathChild-NZ 2 місяці тому

    We still have my grandpas super8, never tried getting it going

  • @codebeat4192
    @codebeat4192 2 місяці тому +1

    5:07 Tra-la-la-la-la-la .... * break * ..... ooops! 😄

  • @randynovick7972
    @randynovick7972 2 місяці тому

    Idea: Backrooms - only with glimpses of prowling Bud instead of guys in hazmat suits. Solid gold, man. Solid gold.

    • @1pcfred
      @1pcfred 2 місяці тому

      They figured out where the backrooms were. It was an old furniture store. Just all the furniture was gone. I think it's in Pennsylvania? It ended up being converted into a slot car track. They found the exact space where the photo was taken. We also know who played the most mysterious song in the Internet today too. They also found out who celebrity number 6 is. She's a waitress today.

  • @flymario8046
    @flymario8046 2 місяці тому

    Now film Bud! You really are creative with solving problems.

  • @charade993
    @charade993 2 місяці тому

    Nice!

  • @thaddeusmcgrath
    @thaddeusmcgrath 2 місяці тому

    Hi Ben, thought we would have another video about modifying anything from Menards but a working Super 8 documentary of Menards to us unaware peasant folks from the southeastern U.S. would be a great way to introduce what we jack legs been missing out on?

  • @Lion_McLionhead
    @Lion_McLionhead 2 місяці тому

    Crazy effort to save the stock AA battery enclosure. Death before lipo.

  • @waterup380
    @waterup380 2 місяці тому

    good waiting more now

  • @tim_brooks
    @tim_brooks 2 місяці тому +1

    film archivist here! the standard frame rate for super 8 is 18fps. (16fps for 8mm, 24fps for 16mm and 35mm.)

    • @ChristopherBarnatt
      @ChristopherBarnatt 2 місяці тому

      The standard rate was 18fps, but many sound (and some silent) cameras offered 24fps also. I own several items of 24fps super-8 hardware.

    • @tim_brooks
      @tim_brooks 2 місяці тому

      @ i’ve scanned many super 8 films with a mag track and the vast majority of them, even with sound, were 18fps. film was expensive and consumers didn’t want to burn through it more quickly than they already were.

    • @randy-johnkostapapas9944
      @randy-johnkostapapas9944 2 місяці тому

      ​@ChristopherBarnatt love your videos. Look forward to each one. Thank you for the work you do... it's nice to see you on comments here.

    • @BenHeckHacks
      @BenHeckHacks  Місяць тому

      Yes the other cameras I've found are 18.

  • @justinnamilee
    @justinnamilee 2 місяці тому

    Neat!

  • @RottnRobbie
    @RottnRobbie Місяць тому +1

    1.21 Gigawatts - no problem with wire size if you've got superconductance.
    Also, speaking of junk science - _Ohms_ of electricity!?!?

  • @SigmundEmad
    @SigmundEmad Місяць тому

    Should I just fix mine then it’s so funny how you saw this three days ago

  • @paranoiia8
    @paranoiia8 2 місяці тому +1

    This is more like spring steel...😅
    Yeah it was...

  • @user-by9co9ss6x
    @user-by9co9ss6x Місяць тому

    What about super conductors..?

  • @demofilm
    @demofilm Місяць тому

    The sound film was always with issues. Except for the 8mm buy film . Yes you could buy Disney short films. Those were great for film night.

  • @Z098
    @Z098 2 місяці тому

    If you take scenes from all of the Jurassic Park movie, you could make something close to the book but will have characters appear and disappear.

    • @BenHeckHacks
      @BenHeckHacks  Місяць тому

      The first three movies I think you meant? But yes.

  • @mikeworkman3593
    @mikeworkman3593 2 місяці тому +1

    Actually, they never specify the amps needed. The higher voltage, the smaller the cable. Maybe it was only like 0.000000001 amps

    • @ccoder4953
      @ccoder4953 2 місяці тому

      They also never said how long they need the 1.21 GW for - watts is a measure of instantaneous power, not total energy. 1.21GW for a microsecond is a way different deal than 1.21 GW for several minutes. If it's just a very brief pulse, that's actually a very manageable amount of energy - just need a bunch of large, low ESR caps and you could charge them off the DeLorean's engine in under a few hours. And for wires, pulses like this are far more worried about fusing current than heating current, like we are when we size house wiring. Fusing current is vastly higher, for most materials.

    • @mikeworkman3593
      @mikeworkman3593 2 місяці тому

      @@ccoder4953 Watts is exactly the measurement of total power: amps x volts=watts

    • @ccoder4953
      @ccoder4953 2 місяці тому

      @@mikeworkman3593 Watts is a measure of power. Period. Yes, P=VI. Voltage and current aren't measures of power, they're measures of electric potential and current flow. Power is an instantaneous measurement because both V and I are instantaneous parameters (that is, their value can be measured over any arbitrarily small period of time). You can average power over some period of time though.
      But, for the case of the DeLorean time machine, since the flux capacitor doesn't seem to need the 1.21 GW continuously (for example, in BTTF 2, they only needed it during the instant the lightning hit), what matters is energy (time integral of power). Since we can store energy in various forms and need not generate it at the same rate we use it, you can use the engine's alternator over a long period of time to charge capacitors, then discharge it over a very short period of time. Charge power is vastly lower than discharge power because the times are very different.

  • @djfaber
    @djfaber 2 місяці тому

    "Why couldn't they just hardwire this" 🙈🙉🙊

  • @KennethScharf
    @KennethScharf Місяць тому

    Jiga or Giga, both are correct. I prefer Jiga.

    • @jpino528
      @jpino528 22 дні тому +1

      I second this. Either Jiga or Giga wprks fine, as long you don't say "niga" by mistake.

  • @jacobdavidcunningham1440
    @jacobdavidcunningham1440 2 місяці тому

    6:00 what lol
    14:08 hehe
    21:48 parafocal too meesa thinky

  • @DeadBen.
    @DeadBen. 2 місяці тому

    Before you use that in public, be sure to paint an orange tip on it.

  • @primus711
    @primus711 2 місяці тому

    surprised the view finder didn't turn into putty

  • @voltare2amstereo
    @voltare2amstereo 2 місяці тому +2

    Make some UA-cam shorts filmed with 8mm

  • @llloyd4
    @llloyd4 2 місяці тому

    Yeah, too bad they never made Spaceballs 2 or History of the World Part II :D

  • @-INFERNUS-
    @-INFERNUS- 2 місяці тому

    First😂🎅🎁🎄