Quick document of rostrum/roroscope camera set up. This adapted Oxberry camera, (presumably from an old rostrum camera) has had a new stepper motor added which is under digital programme control. It uses a Nikon F lens mount and I’m shooting lots with a Micro Nikkor Nikon F 60mm 2.8  lens. It is DUAL gauge and I have gates and sprocket …

(still editing and formatting this post/page) Early on in the formation of the DIY film lab scene there was a meeting in Hamburg or possibly Hannover (sector 16) or  somewhere else where I saw mentioned the idea of converting steenbecks or other flat bed edting tables into contact printers. Esther also mentioned this at WORM and a howto appears in …

Happy with adjustments on getting even spread of light for 35mm, which maybe because of its size really shows hotspots and darker spots in 1:1 printing. With 16mm you dont need the diffuser. btw you get high quality diffuser sheets with minimal ND value inside flat screens, pc monitors. Take them apart and get the diffuser out, good stuff! The …

Heres the projector/looper monitor project Ive been working on for a while now. The mount holding the sensor has been taped onto the side of the projector to test the system. In a real world scenario you would mount this more robustly by your chosen method.                             …

  Soon as I have finished some other things here in Rendlesham towers I’m going to get straight onto digitising the controls of the optical printer. To do this I’ve broken down the functions, basic electrical control functions to 4 PAIRS. This means there are 2 pairs of wires for the projector and 2 pairs for the camera. Heres the …

                  I’ve been doing a lot of coding for the arduino control of the camera Im calling OX2. I was considering porting the whole thing over to a RPi so that I could have a keyboard and screen etc to allow more functions based on prompts etc. But seeing as all I …

I’ve been playing with Matts (https://sixteenmillimeter.com) brilliant Processing sketch for optical sound wave forms using chatGPT to do all the code rewriting I cant do. An amazingly pleasurable experience which as well as leaving me elated also made me consider the ethical dimension to this?   Heres the sketch. You must move the wav file to the data folder in …

Loads of undocumented activity gallery type thing to make me feel better about what I am doing.