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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I have a short one for you today, as my time has been waylaid by someone hitting a streetlight in front of my neighbor’s business and knocking it down onto his building and the side of my gate. Very annoying. But I did manage to make a small amount of progress on the leg locks
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Years and years ago I acquired a dozen or so of these Mitchell 400’ magazine castings. They are mostly complete, except for the light traps, the guide rollers, and in some cases the upholstery. Whoever had them before me took all of those parts out, lost them somewhere, but had the castings sandblasted so that
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Now that the work on Mitchell Standard #46 is FINALLY complete, I am catching up on a lot of little projects that have been happening in the background. Final pictures and the listing for Mitchell 46 are still in the works. In the meantime, the one project that has been taking up the most precious
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My friend Daniil Nevskiy is developing a Super 16 conversion for ARRI 16 S and ST cameras, and he asked if I could help him balance the mirrored shutters for the cameras he is working on. If you are unfamiliar, the mirrored shutter is a key part of the through-the-lens reflex viewfinding system for many
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Just a quick teaser today: I am currently in the process of balancing a series of mirrored shutters for the ARRI ST cameras. I had to 3D print a spanner wrench to safely remove the screw that holds the shutter to the shutter shaft, and now I am hard at work on the long and
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I am putting the finishing touches on my restoration of Mitchell Standard 46, and I’m nearly done! The painting is complete, and I spent quite a while carefully removing miles of masking tape and paper from the various parts of the camera. The next step was to begin reinstalling the shutter drive, the movement, and
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Available now! It took longer to make time to photograph this Moviecam SuperAmerica MK 2 than I had hoped, but it is now ready for sale. At the top of the list of features that I think set the Moviecam SuperAmerica MK 2 apart from its contemporaries is how extraordinarily quiet it is, making it
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Back in the days when I was still shooting vfx, a Fries conversion was quite a luxury compared to the various rackover Mitchell cameras that were more readily available to me. Though the world has mostly turned to digital image capture, the various Fries reflex conversions still have an important place in the continuing world
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Now that I am mostly recovered from last week’s sickness, I am ready to get back to work on the final stages of the painting process. All of the masking that I applied to the camera for the internal paint work had to be removed, the exterior of the camera had to be cleaned and
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