Joe Carney
June 25th, 2003, 10:36 AM
The thread on alternativ affordable 35mm adapters has me thinking about other way.
At a camera show recently I picked up a Cosina professional 7613 Super8mm camera. Currently I'm trying to find someone to fix the electric motor inside, since it has lots of 'pro' features and I only paid $15.00 US for it.
It also has a beautiful 1:1.7/77mm relfex lens with Macro capabilites. No scratches, no humidity/fungus damage. The lens gives a soft look similar to Robert Altman films from the 70s (M.A.S.H. and others). The nice thing, is this lens
has manual focus plus internal zoom through. I was told by the seller it's considered a 'fast' lens. Don't know what that means, but apparantly that is good.
If I can't get the motor repaired, I am thinking about taking apart the camera and finding a way to do with this lenses what others are trying to do with their custom 35mm adapters.
Has anyone else thought of adapting old 8mm and super8mm lenses in this fashion? Any info would be appreciated. There are a lot of cheap non functioning super8 cameras floating around with perfectly good albeit cheap lenses.
At a camera show recently I picked up a Cosina professional 7613 Super8mm camera. Currently I'm trying to find someone to fix the electric motor inside, since it has lots of 'pro' features and I only paid $15.00 US for it.
It also has a beautiful 1:1.7/77mm relfex lens with Macro capabilites. No scratches, no humidity/fungus damage. The lens gives a soft look similar to Robert Altman films from the 70s (M.A.S.H. and others). The nice thing, is this lens
has manual focus plus internal zoom through. I was told by the seller it's considered a 'fast' lens. Don't know what that means, but apparantly that is good.
If I can't get the motor repaired, I am thinking about taking apart the camera and finding a way to do with this lenses what others are trying to do with their custom 35mm adapters.
Has anyone else thought of adapting old 8mm and super8mm lenses in this fashion? Any info would be appreciated. There are a lot of cheap non functioning super8 cameras floating around with perfectly good albeit cheap lenses.