r/16mm

I’m really excited and truly grateful that I finally got a chance to shoot on Super 16 today. Shoutout to DU-All Camera in NJ. I rented an Anton XTR Plus, Arri Zeiss Ultra 16s and Zeiss Superspeeds MKIII. I shot 400’ of 500T and will be dropping the film off at the lab tomorrow. I am film photographer and shooting super 16, felt like the natural progression for me.

I shot a teaser to help support my crowdfunding campaign for a short film that I’m planning to shoot in the fall.

“Operation: We Practiced Freedom” coming soon,
In an unnamed country,a group rebels are commissioned to extract a scientist to shift the tides of war.

Right after Lucky Film officially restarted its production lines in 2025, I reached out to them to discuss making single-perf 16mm film. During the process, they made a few dummy rolls without emulsion just to verify the sizing. Sadly, the perforation positioning didn't meet the standards during our first few attempts. But after several more rounds of adjusting, finally make a film roll that meets the SMPTE standards. Then they produced a first batch of single-perf 16mm test film coated with Lucky SHD50 emulsion. I shot a roll the moment I got my hands on it, and I've just freshly scanned the footage.Lucky SHD50 is a negative film, but I developed it as a positive using the D67 reversal process. I developed it in a 3D-printed Lomo tank that I designed and built myself. The stainon the right side happened because I made a mistake while loading the film—I put the perf side facing up by accident. This coast non-perforated side is under-developed.

https://youtu.be/OvLNRM5aZ2g?si=KWB88pB5iqPtFOTi

I was testing the camera without film and suddenly it stopped working, the winding mechanism got stuck and I couldn't keep turning it. The trigger moves, but the mechanism doesn't turn. I am disassembling the side panel, but the 2 screws of the rotation mechanism are not accessible for disassembly; is there any way to make it rotate?

Hey all,

I'm a full time filmer, but recently delving into the film world which is exciting! I recently shot a roll and the results came back pretty mediocre compared to a roll I had previously shot on a friends Bolex. Every time I start shooting, the image warps twice. Along side that, it seems that the film moves out of place half way through the roll, rending the rest unusable. Seems I also missed focus a bit, which I thought I was nailing during filming, and didn't miss focus once on the other roll I'd shot previously, so that was strange.

Hoping to identify the cause of this ahead of my next roll, so I'm not wasting money needlessly. I've attached a video that shows a dummy roll loaded and running to see if anything looks out of the ordinary (although it seems to start shredding near the end, maybe due to it being reused many times?), and also the roll of film that was shot. The roll messes up two thirds of the way through.

Any advice is much appreciated!

Thanks.

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First roll in paris, really really Happy of m'y camera, works really well, the footage is not shaky at all.

On paper the tolerence of this caméra made it better than an eclair ACL or NPR, and just under and arriflex SR, if somebody have an idea of how to test that.

The color grade is preaty mid i am sadly not an expert in this

Hi all,

I have discovered an couple of old bits of equipment. Photos attached.

I would be very grateful to anyone who can provide me with further information on them and what they do and if anyone is still interested in these items in current times.

All I have done/checked is plug them in and turn them on, both work but what looks to be a monitor on one (Steenbeck) does not turn on.

Thank you all.

hey y’all! posting on here because i just got back my first 3 rolls of 16mm film! i’m very happy with how the footage turned out. i was originally shooting on a K-3 i bought off FB marketplace that i tuned up but on our first shoot it gave me film spaghetti..my producer ended up having an old Bolex H16 laying around and we shot on that for the re-shoot. trying out 16mm has been a huge challenge but has definitely pushed me to be a better cinematographer/filmmaker. we are shooting the rest of the film this month and im super excited to continue to pursue this medium :)

here’s a shot from the film we are making titled Miss Kentucky’s Best.

Took a video of it happening (finally after about the 5th occurrence of this) and wanted to know if I could get any help/advice on how to fix this? Noticing the bottom spool is slowing down for whatever reason but it seems as though everything else is moving fine.

I would say every 1 in 3 tries my Bolex jams. So this isn't happening every single time.

Again any help is soooooooo appreciated thank you!

So I have been trying to transfer my 16mm film since you all helped me get the projector working. I have been just using an iPhone camera because I have no better method of transferring it. I have it the camera and projector set at 24fps and I used some leader I have to test my camera and noticed the rolling dark spot that happens every few second. Any idea what it is?