OK. Its basic stuff, but there are exact and meaningful orientations of film strips in printers for obvious reasons. But you can get in a muddle thinking about whats right, what ‘looks’ right and what you think should be right. This video shows a 16mm sequence in the printer gate, seen as by the video camera. It clearly shows an …

I helped prepare and rig the flying screen at the Cube for Spectres the other day. Went really well. The perforated screen, if lighting conditions are right looks transparent at one moment and acts like a screen at another moment. Heres some video clips.      

Here is the camera as projector again. The 100mm lens produces an image (through 35mm gate) that fits well into the punched paper we were planning on using for the leader project. But to save paper, registration problems and building time/money we might now shoot off an ipad screen which fits perfectly the 190mm x 138mm image. The soundtrack width …

Starting this soon. Going to video off rostrum rig I’m designing for Andrew Manias clip collection.(no posts about that yet anywhere) and add talkover narration afterwards.    

I don’t even know if anyone reads these posts. Perhaps really I make them for myself, to chart progress, and refer back to later on. Well, actually here I am now reading this for reference, so yes mate, uts quite useful to yourself to write up these things. So with an light dependent resistor, micro-controller and signals into MAX I’m …

The controller has 3 settings that produce different DC voltages for the motor and produce different speeds to the spindle/shutter that results in different shutter speeds. The videos below show the 3 speeds and all these clips have the shutter set to 170 degrees. My first attempt at the linkage had the effect of a tiny amount of open shutter …

VERY great step forwards but I got the camera motor controller working and rigged it up to the camera to see how it runs and it runs smoothly, beautifully, accurately!!!. The controller has loads of speeds that turn the main spindle/crank at different speeds so that means different exposure lengths AS WELL AS the different lengths provided by the variabe …

Finally uncovered the oxberry camera motor. Its a printed armature motor that is typicaly found in industrial environments like automation, medical, oil&gas etc. They are extremely precise, very smooth, have instant torque and other exciting mechanical properties. In our application we are just spinning a mechanisim and taking one picture. But this motor will provide an exact time signature for …

Here is a  test scan to see what kind of frames I can produce on the current camera/lens set up. When I come to fully digitise this small piece of movietone (1.19:1) format Nitrate I will frame the picture area only.