A short one today as my battle with Twentieth Century-Fox Cine Simplex camera sn. 105 rages on. The folks who designed this amazing camera went way out of their way to isolate as many things as possible from the housing of the camera to prevent noise and vibration from escaping the camera box. The components […]
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My work on Twentieth Century-Fox Cine Simplex camera #105 continues on, this time with reinstalling the sprocket, the film keepers, the buckle trips, and starting to reinstall the movement. One of the interesting notes is how the movement is installed in this camera. There is another set of steel plates that are laminated to what
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Despite my grand ambitions of assembling the main drive components and reinstalling the movement in this Twentieth Century-Fox Cine Simplex camera, sn. 105, I was stopped by one of those silly little things that stops so many projects. Last week I mentioned the steel plates sandwiched around a piece of leather that work as a
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A friend of mine brought this Twentieth Century-Fox Cine Simplex Camera to me well over a year ago to see if it could be cleaned up and restored to working condition. I have been busy with many other projects, so I am just now getting to it. The camera appears to have been neglected and
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Back in stock! I think I mentioned last week how hot it has been here, so I wasn’t doing anything too strenuous. Well, it’s still hot and humid this week, but I sat down in the air conditioning to finish the restock of ARRI 2B/2C power adapters. I had 3D printed enough shells to make
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One of my favorite cameras has been the Mitchell Standard or GC. These cameras populated almost every visual effects show that I worked on because of their quality engineering and rock steady registration. When my friend Doug Fries introduced his reflex conversions of the Standard and GC, it really revolutionized the way we worked. His
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You are never sure what products will be in demand, so you make your best guess. I had a number of ARRI 2B and 2C cameras with the traditional pistol grip motors in stock, but many of the power cables had decayed to the point where they were unusable, or were missing entirely. Since these
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Every assistant cameraman that has worked on a show with an ARRI 2B or 2C on it has had the experience of taking the camera out of its shipping case, only to notice that the magazine port dust cover is mysteriously missing. In the same vein as the ARRI 16 S replacement cables and ARRI
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I hurt my back out over the weekend, so I’ve been mostly taking it easy this week. Did a little bit of work on one of my friend Daniil’s ARRI ST Super 16 conversions, and then sat and admired this fascinating Newman & Sinclair camera that we took in a year or so ago. This
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I have taken you all along with me as I restored this fascinating Universal Panoramic and Tilting Head Tripod, and now it is finally complete! The journey included completely disassembling the pan and tilt device, re-machining some of the bits and pieces that make it work, replacing wood on one of the legs that apparently
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