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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A shorter one for you today because someone (me) decided to get sick on Tuesday morning. But before that, I did manage to get a bit more painting done. The flat black paint has been applied to the interior of the camera body, as well as to a few other bits of hardware. My next
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Work continues this week with the slow and tedious process of stripping, patching, sanding, cleaning, and masking Mitchell Standard #46 as I get the rest of the pieces ready for paint. Over its 100+ years of life, Mitchell 46 has been altered, modified, and abused by its many users, leaving it with a variety of
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Nobody panic, clutch your towels and your pearls, but I have finally started the process of painting Mitchell Standard #46. I have three projects running concurrently, including remaking the lock-down lugs for the Universal tripod I showed a few weeks back. I am also modifying the fixture I use for balancing mirrored shutters for a
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I have had my friend Ted Rae’s ARRI 2B available for sale for a while now. Anyone who knows Ted knows that he is a perfectionist with his equipment, and he had a number of upgrades done to this camera. He had me install a proper light trap on the ground glass assembly so a
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Now that this rain storm has passed, I am finally preparing to paint Mitchell Standard #46. As part of this endeavor, I have designed myself a paint fume extraction system, crude though it may be. I don’t have a paint booth, so to apply spray paint in my shop, I have previously utilized a large
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Back in the shop with Mitchell Standard 46 this week working on some of the final parts that are missing from the camera. On older Mitchell Standard and NC cameras, there is a little slider door on the viewfinder that covers the ground glass and viewfinder optics. This slider is held in place by a
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