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added new 28 and 35mm super speeds. lens pictures link below https://www.instagram.com/p/C6jhJEWCA48/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

If a working machine comes out of this discussion I'd love to be a patron buying some Double 8mm film stock or perhaps be a kickstarter contributor to help get it going. Not looking for large quantities, just want to see perforation of 16mm film available in the world.

Guys can you tell me is it worth it to sell the HAWK VINTAGE SET ...is there any market for this set on the Film Market probaly for big feauture films I ahve the possibility to buy one in the future thats why I am asking . Can you shae your thoughts with me ? Attila Somos Filmgears UK

Good as new!

Re-assembled to the correct orientation for the H8 with new grease.

Shakespearean Burn™ Arden. [ holding sword ] mark my words, You goodman botcher, ’tis to you I speak: The next time that I take thee near my house, Instead of legs I’ll make thee crawl on stumps. (Arden of Faversham, 1.314–7) * Lavinia’s rapist-mutilators mock her debilitated body after the terrible fact for ten carefree, cruel, relaxed, devil-may-care lines : Demetrius. So now go tell, an if thy tongue can speak, Who ’twas that cut thy tongue and ravished thee. Chiron. Write down thy mind, bewray [ reveal ] thy meaning so, An if thy stumps will let thee play the scribe. The Extreme Conversational . . . [ She takes the staff in her mouth, and guides it with her stumps, and writes ] . . . as . . . Saturninus. Go fetch Chiron and Demetrius to us. Titus. Why, there they are both, bakéd in that pie; Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred. . . . Famous Last Words. (Titus Andronicus, 2.4.1–10 / 4.1.78 (s.d.) / 5.3.60–3) * Preston Sturges? Coen Brothers? By the start of scene 3, three separate Reasons for Murder are conspiring concurrently against one man, Thomas Arden, a gentleman of Faversham. 1. Alice Arden his wife and Mosby her lover conspire the death of him for their own pleasure. (cf. 1.133–41; 220–25) 2. His neighbour Greene seeks vengeance on him for stealing his land, and hires two murderers to do the deed. (cf. 2.81–108) 3. Arden’s servant Michael hopes to marry Mosby’s sister, but requires Mosby’s permission to do so. Evil Alice promises Michael all shall be well with his nuptial hopes if her husband ends up dead. So Michael believes Alice is helping him. (cf. 1.145–7 / 3.139–41) While this Situation presents itself as potentially farcical, the play’s dialogue is not funny. No, Arden of Faversham is not a comedy-drama. The triple-murder Situation is presented by storyteller Anonymous as a straight-faced riveting thriller. * Michael. [ musing to himself ] Ah, harmless Arden, how hast thou misdone, That thus thy gentle life is levelled at? (3.189–90) Anton. If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule? * Woody Allen. The country makes me nervous. . . . You got Dick and Perry. . . . (Annie Hall, 23:25) * The two hired murderers Black Will and Shakebag. Will. Give me the money, and I’ll stab him as he stands pissing against a wall, but I’ll kill him. (2.95–6) Will. We’ll kill him. Shakebag. Ay, thy mother, thy sister, thy brother, or all thy kin. (2.88–9) Greene. The first [ walking toward us ] is Arden, and that’s his man; The other is Franklin, Arden’s dearest friend. Will. Zounds, I’ll kill them all three. Greene. Nay, sirs, touch not his man in any case. (3.34–7) * * * Balthazar. What, would you have us play a tragedy? (The Spanish Tragedy, 4.1.86) Will. I tell thee, Greene, the forlorn traveller Whose lips are glued with summer’s parching heat Ne’er longed so much to see a running brook As I to finish Arden’s tragedy. (Arden of Faversham, 3.94–7) Hippolito. You flow well, brother. . . . Duke. I cannot brook— [ dies ] (Revenger’s Tragedy, 2.3.146 / 3.6.223 ) Monsieur. There is a glass of ink where you may see How to make ready black-fac’d Tragedy. (Bussy D’Ambois, 4.2.109–10) Talbot. accurséd fatal hand That hath contrived this woeful tragedy! (1 Henry 6, 1.4.76–7) Vindice. When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good. (Revenger’s Tragedy, 3.5.205)

The focus ring was cleaned and re-greased. Not it is nice and smooth.

The focus ring was still stuck. Under the thick grease is a locking screw that needs to be removed to get to the focus ring.

The focus mechanism came apart with exactly two turns. It was not that bad, but it was cleaned and re-greased. This one appeared to be simple threads with a single start location, not really a helicoid.

The grease had turned into something resembling wax.

Mark the focus mechanism before sliding the lens apart.

Three screws around the perimeter can be removed to access the frozen focus mechanism. If I plan on re-assembling in the exact same way, I remove the screws all the way, so the indentations can be seen to aid re-assemble. In this case, I will rotate the lens when I re-assemble it, so the index marks are in the correct place for the H8.

I picked up this mint condition Yvar 75mm lens for my H8 Bolex. The optics are perfect, but the focus ring is frozen.

I found a 75mm Yvar and it works great on my H8 non-REX with the adapter I got off e-bay. For those that don't use 8mm, the lens is useable on that camera because the H8 Octameter has a 75mm setting. After servicing the helicoid, it was easy to re-assemble the lens so the index marks were in the correct positon with the adapter in place. For this camera I want the index marks of all the lenses on the left side.

CS is the abbreviation of C mount, short. It’s not 25 mm but the imperial measure one inch diameter, 32 turns per inch pitch, 60 degrees flank angle thread. Or UN 1"-32, generally class 2. There are cameras that carry the Bell & Howell A, B or C mount. We speak of the length of an adapter or a thread. An inch is 25,400 mm.

Just to let members know: there is a clever and cheap series of cs adapters available for very little $$$ on eBay. A 'CS adapter' is usually 5mm deep and is 25M or 25mm diameter, and enables c mounts to be used on cs cameras, usually for machine vision purposes. The less usual ones are 10, 15 and 20mm long. Using one will bring objects closer to the sensor and enable greater magnification. Infinity focus will be lost.

Sold! Thank you everyone.

An ingenious murder plot, possibly conceived by Shakespeare Mosby. I happened on a painter yesternight, The only cunning man of Christendom; For he can temper poison with his oil That whoso looks upon the work he draws, Shall with the beams that issue from his sight Suck venom to his breast and slay himself. Sweet Alice, he shall draw thy counterfeit, That Arden may, by gazing on it, perish. Anonymous, Arden of Faversham (1592), 1.227–34. * Whether Shakespeare wrote the play, or Thomas Kyd, or Snoopy, all Scrooby knows is that the poetry flows so clearly and lucidly that Shakespeare’s hand in the Situation would be no surprise at all. Arden of Faversham is a drama of murder in an ordinary home—an everyday housewife enters into a conspiracy with her lover to murder her husband. In other words—Arden of Faversham is a very early sighting in English literature of two ordinary people conspiring domestic murder. Moreover, Arden of Faversham, as with The Witch of Edmonton, took its plot from recent headlines. So Arden of Faversham is possibly the earliest prototype of the “Based-on-Recent-Events-in-Real-Life Made-for-TV thriller”. * The first murder in English theatrical history Abel. Brother, whi art thou so to me in Ire? Cain. we! theyf, whi brend thi tend so shyre? Ther myne did bot smoked right as it wold vs both haue choked. Abel. God is will I trow it were that myn brened so clere; If thyne smoked am I to wite? Cain. we! yei! that shal thou sore abite; with cheke bon, or that I blyn, shal I the &thi life twyn; [ Cain kills Abel ] So lig down ther and take thi rest, thus shall shrewes be chastysed best. Abel. Veniance, veniance, lord, I cry! for I am slayn, &not gilty. The Towneley Mactacio Abel (“The Killing of Abel”), 315–28. * Scrooby translation Abel. Brother, why are you so angry with me? Cain. I? Thief, why did your land burn so well? Mine smoked as it burned; if we were there we both would have choked. Abel. God’s will I believe it was that mine burned so brilliantly. If yours smoked, am I to blame? Cain. Ah, you! I will tear you apart!— with this cheek-bone! If I don’t stop, I shall sever you from life! [ Cain kills Abel ] So lie down there and take thy rest; thus are big-mouths chastised best. Abel. Vengeance! Vengeance, lord, I cry! For I am slain, and not guilty. * The first murder weapon in English drama is an animal bone. * Art historians are well aware that the weapon Cain used for his fratricide is shown, in a large number of representations in western art, as an animal’s jawbone.¹ ¹See Plate 60a of the Holkham Bible picturebook; Plate 60b of the Lübeck Bible. A. A. Barb, “Cain's Murder-Weapon”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 35 (1972), 386–9. * Hamlet. That skull had a tongue in it and could sing once. How the knave jowls it to the ground [ dashes it ] as if ’twere Cain’s jawbone, that did the first murder! * Cherrell Guilfoyle, “The Staging of the First Murder in the Mystery Plays in England”, Comparative Drama 25 (Spring 1991), 42–51. The killing of Abel is reported very briefly in Genesis : “Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew him.” The writers of the mystery cycles had no canonical indication of what took place except that the murder of Abel was in the open air; nor is there any identification of a weapon. The playwrights had to make up their own minds.

Seems extremely use-case for me. I would think you could achieve a similar look with various diffusion filters if you wanted that softer look. from what they show on their own youtube videos, the effect looks super intense even at "subtle". I don't think film looks need to be that soft/diffused and people have a weird thought that film is this super soft low contrast look when it's really not. Certainly not as sharp as digital, but nowhere near as soft as those tuners look to be. That said they might have a use for dream sequences or something more stylized, but I wouldn't see a use in buying them. Also, hey, fancy seeing you here!

Thank you folks for your comments. I'll post results when I get finished.

Anything left? Guessing it's all gone, but since I have a shoestring budget I gotta ask anyway.

Anything left?

...and then at the end he shoots the demo reel handheld so we can't tell anything about the results. 😅

Hey, I'm a crazed machinist with an engineering shop who wants to perforate 16mm microfilm! Let's team up. I was going at this from an entirely different direction: my thought was to try to 3D print punches for fitting to a sprocket wheel in e.g. a synchronizer, since I wouldn't need a perforator that operates at anything close to commercial speeds or efficiencies. If I have to replace a set of teeth every 200' I would be fairly happy. Have you made any progress since this thread was started?