My feature film "Perfect Antarctic Madness", as regular readers of this blog know, is entirely filmed in Super-8, or more properly written, 8mm type S, since the Super-8 film has been hand-loaded from Super-8 cartridges to Single-8 magazines in order to be able to film with the never-enough-praised ZC1000N camera, with loads of only ten meters each.
The only thing in this feature film that is of digital origin are the letters of the credits, which, instead of being hand-drawn, are made digitally, although it is true that I have filmed them with film: instead of filming paper or acetate, I have filmed the letters from the computer screen, in the same way indicated by my Italian friend Luigi Petrin (also a ZC1000 enthusiast, like me).
For this purpose, I have used my Beaulieu 9008, which is considered the non plus ultra camera for Super-8. If so, why didn't I shoot with it in the feature film? For several reasons. The 9008 is fine for studio filming, like this one, with a spare unit at hand, and with controlled weather conditions. But at -35 degrees Celsius, in the snow or suffering strong katabatic winds, its electronics can't hold up.
On the other hand, it's too big, while the ZC1000, in addition to being able to withstand the most adverse situations, for helicopter filming, it turns into a mini camera, with the original grip removed (with a Russian one instead) and equipped with the Fujinon EBC 5.5 mm mini lens.
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| ZC1000 transformed in a minicamera with a Soviet grip and very small 5.5 lens |
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