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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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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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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