Sourcing Regular 8 (double run 16?)

[tiberiustibz]

Originally Posted by BetterSense

What do you do with the 100ft spools? Do you break it down into 25 foot spools? If so where do you get the spools?

Some cameras can take 100 foot loads. You'd have to seperate it, I'm not sure where you'd get the reels. You'd only need one at a time though.

[ic-racer]

Originally Posted by BetterSense

What do you do with the 100ft spools? Do you break it down into 25 foot spools? If so where do you get the spools?

The Bolex H-8 cameras use the same body as the H-16, so a 100ft reel fits in there. I'm lucky to have collected some 25, 50 and 100ft original Bolex spools. Unlike 120 still film and 16mm film, with regular-8 movie film the take-up spool is always 'yours.'

The run-time of an H-8 Bolex with a 100ft reel inside is similar to an H-16 with the big 400ft magazine on top.