As well as shooting a foot of so of the Ferrania film in the Pathe Baby, we put a few feet through Granddad's 1930s Pathe B camera. First impressions are that the Baby produced better results, but there are too many variables to be sure at the moment. The grain is simply awful though. Rodinal 1:25 is clearly not going to work
Saturday 23 November 2019
First film test, using newly acquired c1923 Pathe Baby camera
I loaded only a little more than a foot of my new (old) 9.5mm film into my new (old) Pathe Baby hand-cranked cine camera (made from 1923) and we shot it yesterday in very weak sunlight.
I developed it last night in Rodinal, which produces very sharp but grainy images.
Here's the result! It was shot at 1 turn per second, which is 7 frames per second, instead the usual 14 fps. There are 42 frames per foot with the 9.5mm format, so this is around 50 frames. The original is played 2X then slowed down. I have a portrait attachment for my other 9.5mm camera, and stuck it on the front of the lens, and it worked! The final section was taken with this lens on, and with just a slight crank of the handle to produce several still images.
The grain is very bad, but I think that's the developer and the method I used, so next time will be better I'm sure. How wonderful that the camera worked like new even though it'd just sort of 100 years old! The Pathe Baby was the first amateur cine camera ever made, just a few months after the invention of 9.5mm film at the end of 1922 in France.
First some stills, then the film below.
The blue grey negatives invert to this lovely orange brown
But I went for Desaturated in the end:
I developed it last night in Rodinal, which produces very sharp but grainy images.
Here's the result! It was shot at 1 turn per second, which is 7 frames per second, instead the usual 14 fps. There are 42 frames per foot with the 9.5mm format, so this is around 50 frames. The original is played 2X then slowed down. I have a portrait attachment for my other 9.5mm camera, and stuck it on the front of the lens, and it worked! The final section was taken with this lens on, and with just a slight crank of the handle to produce several still images.
The grain is very bad, but I think that's the developer and the method I used, so next time will be better I'm sure. How wonderful that the camera worked like new even though it'd just sort of 100 years old! The Pathe Baby was the first amateur cine camera ever made, just a few months after the invention of 9.5mm film at the end of 1922 in France.
First some stills, then the film below.
The blue grey negatives invert to this lovely orange brown
But I went for Desaturated in the end:
Tuesday 19 November 2019
This is where it all starts for real!
I've dabbled with 9.5mm film previously, but the lack of film stock led to my giving up. Until on 13th November 2019 I had a stoke of luck of the kind which rarely happens in life. I've managed to get hold of 3000 feet of (hopefully) great condition 9.5mm film.
Here's the unfocused test strips, used in a 35mm camera, an 8 second exposure in the kitchen. It's ugly yet beautiful ;-)
Here's the unfocused test strips, used in a 35mm camera, an 8 second exposure in the kitchen. It's ugly yet beautiful ;-)
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