Canon Canonet 8 - 8mm Camera Overview and Loading

Michael Raso gives an overview of the 1963 Canon Canonet 8 8mm movie camera (distributed in the US by Bell & Howell).
This affordable vintage camera is available on eBay and fresh, new Double 8mm film is available at filmphotograph...

[@NewWorldFilm]

I love this camera. Mine is slightly different with no Bell & Howell branding but functionally identical. Very different from other 60’s cameras. Can’t wait to shoot more FPP film through it!

[@super8blog71]

Looks good. Another helpful video from FPP. Footage looks great, the sepia 10 looks the part.

[@mikishootsonfilm]

I love those 8mm Canons

[@cretan982]

Thanks. Really helpful. Just got one (no manual) and able to test it with this info. Works!

[@orestes1984]

Just FYI that camera has a wide normal to super telephoto lens with a crap factor to 35mm of 5.7, the lens is 57 to 142.5, it's not very wide at all unless you have an anamorphic lens adapter laying around.

[@aengusmacnaughton1375]

Next FPP Film Project -- "The Unauthorized Biography of Jim Carrey" -- starring John Fedele -- filmed by Mike Raso on FPP Double-8, Super8 and 16mm with vintage cameras. I'll pay my $2.75 for the matinee show for sure!!!!!!

[@oldradiosnphonographs]

Help I can’t stop buying cheap cameras from eBay! Lol. Another $20 down the tubes…but another awesome camera👍

[@aengusmacnaughton1375]

Mikey-Mike (that was your rapper name, right?) -- the A1PX battery is a 1.5v battery, where the original battery for the camera was a 1.3v (mercury) battery. Your sepia-stock footage looks exposed OK, have your other test runs (the remake of "The 10 Commandments" -- filmed entirely on location in New Jersey) come out OK?

[@FilmPhotographyProject]

Personally, I have never "sweated" the 1.3v VS 1.5 cold dilemma. Close enough to get the job done. - Mike

[@owenthegenealogist]

I've shot probably 15 rolls through this same model over the past 3 to 4 years. I've shot FPP Cine40 (BW and colour negative) as well as 100D, Foma 100 reversal--essentially every fresh Regular 8 stock available. I have never had an issue with the 1.5 versus the 1.3 difference. Every roll was perfectly exposed.

[@aengusmacnaughton1375]

@@owenthegenealogist -- Thanks Mike and Owen -- I have used a goodly number of stills cameras where I have had the modern alkaline/1.5v equivalent of the original mercury 1.3v batteries -- typically I have found that I did need to tweak the exposure settings by 1 stop on most of the cameras. But I just got one of these Canonet 8mm cameras and am hoping to test it out -- wasn't sure if I needed to tweak the settings at all....

[@aengusmacnaughton1375]

Can't resist -- "Take a walk on the *wide* side...."

[@aengusmacnaughton1375]

"And the FPP girls go, 'Doo do doo do doo do do doo...'"

[@hypnotised-clover]

What the hell was that crap with the weird edits and repeating words?