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Anyone here got Super 8 experience? I'm in the UK, there's a historic brutalist complex in my city I love (think Ghost In The Shell 1995 / Akira) that's being closed up for demolition at the end of this week, and I want to get it on celluloid before it goes. I'm a poorfag so I've never been able to save up for a camera the past couple of years and then a Bauer C2A came up on Gumtree last night literally the next housing block over for only £15 cause the guy was getting rid of cupboard-loads of junk. There's an exposed roll in the camera already and he said "Oh you can just tape over it" so it think the low price may be cause he doesn't know it's worth ~£150 rather than that it's gonna turn out broken necessarily. Need to get some film stock ASAP but I need to know:
-My choice is between Ektachrome colour reversal, or Vision3 50D negative
-I want to use what I film in video art for the local art festivals, so I'd like to be able to project it, I'm not interested in digital scans except for posterity
-I also want to be able to make copies, which I'm aware will increase the cost
I've seen around that Ektachrome is poorer for making copies from, but is used for projection, whereas Vision3 50D isn't used for projection as it's a negative, it gets scanned digitally for use for whatever gimmicky reason? Is it true Vision3 50D and other common Super 8 negative film stock can only be used in the form of a digital scan nowadays or is it still feasible (with some extra £££) to get it developed into multiple copies for use as projections? The pieces I'm planning would involve 3 duplicate celluloid loops of the same material projected side by side, intentionally set out of sync. I'm a total noob and would like to spend more time researching but this place getting demolished & me being broke up til this month has me on a tight schedule now.
