A grid showing the Fries Engineering Ultra 70 camera in the top left, the movement and sprocket assembly inside the camera on the top right, the inside of the camera with the movement removed in the bottom left, the shutter drive mechanism on the bottom right, and the movement in the center on top of the other images.

Fries Engineering Ultra 70

/ Cameras, Restoration

Back in March 2021, I had a chance to evaluate the Fries Engineering version of the IMAX camera to diagnose why it had stopped working. The immediate problem was pretty straight forward: There is a flywheel that is part of the movement, but that also acts as a coupler between the movement and the shutter […]

Fries Engineering Ultra 70 Read More »