Forgot to mention this
I didn’t mean to write that below for the blog. It all came out from my fingers… Bad fingers…
Anyway, I had my parents sent me an 8mm film camera from Japan a while ago. It looks so old and dusty. I was gonna check it out today and took the used-to-be leather cover off. It still looks so old and dusty. I even need some sort of solution to wipe off dust.
But surprise, I pushed the run button and it ran! I guess the battery is not dead after 10 years. Before I came to the States, I played with it a little bit. It worked and produced the decent images.
It has zoom lens and it does zoom in and out. Focus is working. Just dirty lens though. The viewfinder is again dirty but I can see through it.
And I encountered the problem. Couldn’t open the camera body where you’re supposed to insert the film. This is the main part of shooting film camera. There’s a latch that needs to be turned 90 degrees to open but this doesn’t turn at all!
This will be my tonight’s project after the meeting with Justin and Adrianne. Oh, by the way, I’m shooting their wedding this weekend. It’ll be great. I”m excited. And reason why I started checking this camera out was because I wanted to test this camera for their wedding. Some videographers use 8mm cameras and they all look great. I simply wanna do it too. Why not, right?
I hope I don’t break this camera…
