kevin jackman Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 or are there some that dont? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Anthony Vale Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 or are there some that dont? Projection reels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin jackman Posted October 15, 2007 Author Share Posted October 15, 2007 Projection reels? my understanding is that high speed cameras need the film loaded onto something that looks like a large daylight spool. they are called taylor reels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Sponsor Robert Houllahan Posted October 15, 2007 Site Sponsor Share Posted October 15, 2007 my understanding is that high speed cameras need the film loaded onto something that looks like a large daylight spool. they are called taylor reels All Redlake or Visual Instrument Hycam cameras need 400' daylight spools and the film for these cameras is usually 500t 7218 on estar base delivered from Kodak on the daylight reels. A hycam will pull a 400' reel in 1.5 sec so a core is potentially troublesome. I do not think you need daylight reels with a Photosonics. -Rob- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Peich Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 The Action Master 500 needs daylight spools. The daylight spools in 400ft size that are often used are "split reels" which use regular cores. You are able to order film for High-Speed cameras in 400ft rolls on a daylight spool from Kodak. This is double perf with a long pitch of 0.3000" ... 2R-3000. The Action Master takes either 0.2994" or 0.3000" pitch. Most other High-Speed cameras take long pitch. Kodak at one time had High-Speed Camera film in 50 ft rolls (2R-3000) mounted on a "Tayloreel Microfilm Spool". Not many takes on that roll! I don't know if Tayloreel still makes the 50ft spool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janne Pulkkila Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 Usually, I have loaded a LOCAM with an acetate based, double perfed, 0.2994 pitched film on a regular 100 ft daylight spool. Works fine at 500 fps. The camera is so complicated to load that you couldn't possibly do that in total darkness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Dunn Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Those Taylor reels don't look like the same as daylight spools. They don't really have to deal with fast-moving film. The issue isn't so much daylight loading as keeping the film running true at high speed. (We used to call the LOCAM medium-speed- high speed for us was up to 10,000fps so the film was moving at 170 mph. 400' of VNF in two seconds flat). The R-90 (100'), R-190 (200') and the S-153 (400') spools are balanced to run true. We threw them away by the hundred. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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