I finally made some progress on disassembling the Fox Freehead! Many thanks to everyone who made helpful suggestions. Seven days of soaking the screws that hold the top plate to the Freehead, and many hours of tapping, pounding, and twisting later, I was finally able to get the screws out of the top plate. Thinking […]
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Still not having much success getting the 80-year-old screws out of the Fox Freehead, and to avoid that frustrating task, I turned instead to replacing the missing telescoping pan tilt handle. I spent a long time studying the bad black and white photographs in the Fox Camera manual, and they showed two possibilities for the
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As I am feverishly trying to bring the Fox camera back to shooting condition, a few items remain unfinished. The pan tilt head is stalled while I try to remove the rest of the stubborn screws, wait for rubber hand grips to arrive, and as I machine the pan handle extension locking lever. I have
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As I work toward a demonstration of the total Fox Cine Simplex system, I decided to work on the pan tilt head, which the Fox engineers call the “Freehead Camera Mount”. Most of us take the pan tilt devices we use for granted, as they are just always there and we depend on them to
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A number of people were curious about threading a bipack magazine. Those of you that have done this will know that it is not as straightforward as one might think. I don’t know if this is the best or only way to thread a bipack magazine, but this is the way I have done it
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As I bring the Fox camera closer to running film for the first time in many years, I thought it was very interesting to show how much thought went into the simple magazine. Anyone who has loaded a film magazine knows the frustrations associated with that process, especially those in the visual effects end of
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Mitchell Standard #532 was originally purchased by the United States Army Signal Corps in 1943. We acquired it in 2021 from the camera inventory of John Lemmon Films, Inc., a studio based in Charlotte, North Carolina who specialized in clay animation. When the camera arrived in our shop, I found that the variable shutter blade
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For a while now, we have been wanting a place on our website to archive and share our weekly social media posts. To that end, we have set up a blog page and populated it with many of our posts from the past couple of years. It is still very much a work in progress,
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Freshly added to CinemaGear.com this week, we have a collection of Schneider Cine Xenon lenses, all available with an Arriflex Standard mount. These lenses have been cleaned, lubricated, and collimated, and are all in used condition.
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Every once in a while, it is the simple things that make me really excited. My friend Mark Mervis was able to help me add a Panavision matte box to the Super R-200 camera, making the camera a more complete production package. I am hoping my lead on a Panavision battery and charger will come
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