Stuff you have had since you were a kid
Mar 5, 2022 20:42:59 GMT
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Post by Three Litre on Mar 5, 2022 20:42:59 GMT
Yes - mine had an original leather case with all kinds of filters and accessories stuffed into the compartments. There was even a little winding handle you could plug in to enable you to wind the film back a few frames to do mix/dissolves/superimposing titles, although the results were a bit crude.
As for those Ian Allen books. I remember having a few of those during a train spotting phase I went through when I was around 10/11. A mate at the time would brag about how many locos he had spotted and underlined in his books compared to mine. Then I had a family holiday in Edinburgh in a hotel that overlooked the railway goods yard and returned home with a whole new load of new spots ! (Although I still have an interest in rail, I'm grateful my spotting phase didn't progress beyond the age of 11).
Yeah - the more deluxe cameras had a rewind facility and a footage counter - so as you say, you could wind the film back and do superimposed/double exposed shots, dissolves and fades.
Never saw none of that on the Standard 8mm stuff. Only Super 8.
The Super 8 camera I have has a rewind, also it has a Fade in / Fade out button to.
With that camera we managed to do superimposed captions - which we made up on sheets of mouting card (borrowed from the bin at school) using white Letraset - which we weren't good at, so had wonky captions.
Pretty much the same way as they woud have done them at the Labs.
Going to have to raid my mothers loft, as she has a load of the films we made up there.
There were some from a Vintage Car Rally we went to in 1985, another from a Works Open Day at British Rail Tech Centre in Derby.
Would love to digitise them.
My Brother was big on the crossing off in his Ian Allen Books. He had a strict system too!
On a trip to York around 1980; our train (a Class 45 non the less) stopped at Doncaster for about 15minutes - and he literally filled his notebook with stock in the various sidings and works yard.
I think they were just building the large signal box that's still there.
The rest of the trip to York was spent getting them all crossed off!
Also - still got my original Rail Riders membership card too!