This year’s budget for equipment purchases has already been spent, but I got an offer that I just couldn’t turn down. Mostly, I wanted the two geared heads, one Worrall and one Mitchell, but the package also came with a trio of Fries Mitchell cameras and a couple of lenses. This equipment came out of
Another Fries Camera Haul? Read More »
I know I said last week that this new Pathe camera was going to be a future project, but before I could safely put it away, I needed to mitigate as much of the corrosion of the brass parts as possible to prevent any further decay. When I brought the camera over the bench to
A Quick Cleaning of Pathe Professional sn. 1086 Read More »
My apologies for the delay, I know that I promised that the ARRI S cables would be back in stock a couple of weeks ago, but I had some unexpected difficulties, mostly in sourcing materials. The copper I use to make the contacts became unexpectedly unavailable and much more expensive, so a workaround had to
ARRI 16 S/ST Cables Restocked (for real this time!) and A New Pathé Has Arrived Read More »
As I was going through my inventory of Arriflex 400’ magazines, I noticed that quite a few of them suffer from a missing or severely damaged “title block” (as the ARRI parts breakdown identifies it), you know, that silver piece in the middle of the magazine door. In the past, I have either painted over
3d Printing a Replacement ARRI 35 Series Magazine “Title Block” Read More »
A couple of weeks ago, I got a phone call from a client who said he had a vintage wooden tripod. He was nice enough to come visit with the tripod, and at first glance I was not sure exactly what it was. I decided to buy it anyway and try to figure out what
A Mysterious Tripod Read More »
I sold out of the most recent batch of my custom ARRI 16 S power cables and I am hard at work on printing and assembling a new batch. They should be ready late next week.
Restocking Our ARRI 16 S/ST Power Cables Read More »
Today we rejoice, for Twentieth Century-Fox Cine Simplex camera sn. 105 is finished! Or as complete as I can get it with the parts that I had. Despite its looks when I first examined this camera, the heart of the system was still in repairable condition. The most complicated part of this project actually turned
Completing My Restoration of Twentieth Century-Fox Cine Simplex Camera sn. 105 Read More »
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
Shutter Woes with Twentieth Century-Fox Cine Simplex camera sn. 105 Read More »
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
Cine Simplex # 105 – The Restoration Work Continues Read More »
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
The Odyssey of Cine Simplex Repairs Continues Read More »
