{"id":282,"date":"2020-05-14T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/?p=282"},"modified":"2021-09-30T16:24:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T23:24:43","slug":"mitchell-underslung-magazine-adapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/14\/mitchell-underslung-magazine-adapter\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell Underslung Magazine Adapter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We had so many interesting comments on last week’s trip down memory lane, I thought I would show another interesting solution to a problem we ran into while shooting space ships. Budget always being a problem, I had to devise a way to get close enough to the miniatures to give the illusion of the “paint scraper” shot. Taking a lead from Don Trumbull, Doug’s father, this was my interpretation of the underslung magazine adapter. This is a light-tight channel that mounts to the Mitchell Standard magazine port and, with a series of rollers and light traps, let us put a 200′ theodolite magazine behind and below the camera. I used this unit in shots for “V”, “V – The Final Battle”, “Tales of the Gold Monkey”, “Real Genius”, and “Starcrossed”, among others. The budget answer I came up with was the mag adapter described above, with the follow focus L-base, mounted on a stepper motor driven Mitchell straight head, on top of a stepper motor driven panoram dolly, on top of 40′ of Tiffen track. Not elegant, but it worked well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n