RENTING EQUIPMENT
You must be an ASoF member in order to rent equipment or make use of facilities.
You may take out and return equipment or use facilities anytime between 1 and 5, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. Equipment taken out on Tuesday and Wednesday is due on Thursday. Cameras taken out on Thursday are due the following Tuesday.
Equipment may not be available while a class is ongoing.
Reservations for cameras and facilities must be made over email. Facility reservations must be made two days in advance.
If you encounter a problem with the camera, please return it to ASoF immediately.
Cancellations must be made at least an hour before scheduled pickup/reservation. If no cancellation is made, you will be fined the price of the rental.
The fine for late equipment is $20 per day.
To reserve equipment or facilities, or if you have any questions please contact Faiza@austinfilmschool.org
EQUIPMENT AVAILABILITY
BASIC SUPER 8MM CAMERA
$20 per check out
ADVANCED SUPER 8MM CAMERA
$40 per check out
SUPER 8MM PROJECTOR
$30 per check out
16MM PROJECTOR
$40 per check out
SERVICES
SUPER 8/16MM EDITING
We have rewinds, splicers, and lightboxes for both Super 8 and 16mm editing.
$6 / day
HAND PROCESSING 8/16MM
We have photo processing tanks, buckets, thermometers, various canisters, goggles and gloves and pretty much everything else you would need to process your own film!
All members interested in hand processing are required to take a separate orientation class by appointment. The orientation class is $15 and is by appointment.
Members are responsible for obtaining and disposal of their chemicals. We will help you as much as we can in the mixing and preparation, and will also give you advice on which chemical to use.
We may sometimes have certain chemicals already mixed, in which case you would only pay for the cost of the chemicals + shipping divided by the length of your film and how much we estimate the chemicals are good for. So, for example, processing a cartridge of Super 8 black and white Tri-X film into negative can cost as low as $2! Feel free to ask us in your email.
RECOMMENDATIONS
TO BUY FILM:
You can buy it straight from Kodak! Contact their Motion Picture Sales Representative for more. They have great discounts and an online store if you are a student too!
In Austin, you can buy certain stocks of Super 8mm and 16mm from the University Art Co-op and Precision Camera.
There are a number of labs around the country who will happily process your film. Some of these are:
Pro8mm
Dwayne’s Lab
Colorlab
PacLab
AlphaCine
To transfer your films and old video formats to DVD or harddrive in Austin, contact our friends at the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, the local place to get a telecine! See their deal/prices here.
OTHER RESOURCES
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto store has a number of strange and terrific filmstocks for sale, including some Regular 8! See their offerings.
For a variety of film supplies check out the offerings of Dwight Cody at The Boston Connection and Larry Urbanski’s store!
