what could this be? (lab equipment)

[Filip Plesha]

Here is a strange photo i found on a web site

of a distributor of "Synchro film and video" services (Germany)

 

Here is the picture:

 

 

 

What could this be? Bright green film? I can't think of anything using

green film,even dye transfer process uses substractive color dyes right?

What could this be?

 

And what kind of a scanner or printer is this:

 

 

 

Is it a celco printer?

[Fredrik Backar FSF]

Very strange!! There was a prior pick from Alien in there too if that is of substance....

 

Could it be some type of leader??? :huh:

[Mitch Gross]

The green stuff looks like the threading leader that labs use to string film through their processors and printers. The second picture looks like a Celco or other brand of burn to film printer. There are a few of them based on Oxberry camera movements. Perhaps a Fury.

[Filip Plesha]

Hehe,

that is my personal folder where i store images to display on forums.

the image from alien was from the time i asked about the camera shown on those pictures on this forum a months ago or so.

I should erase that. :D

[ColinTyler]

The Green film is a processing machine leader, it is used on feed the film through the machine. It looks like the top of the racks that hold the film in the chemicals.

[Dominic Case]

The first shot is the top of a processing machine: you are looking at green machine leader that is joined on to the end of actual film, in order to run the real film right through the process and out, while keeping the machine threaded.

 

I think it's the stop wash tank in the shot - only half a tank is threaded, suggesting a 1/2 minute process time (stop or stop wash) and it's a clear liquid, judging by the puddle on the edge of the tank. Finally the rollers in the previous tank are exposed to air (and light) being above the surface of the liquid, ruling out the developer tank.

 

Where is the picture from?

 

The other one looks very much like a Celco Firestorm CRT film recorder.

[Filip Plesha]

The pictures are from website of a Croatia representative company of

the German post production facility "synchro film and video"

[John Pytlak RIP]

Yes, it's a processing rack threaded with clear triacetate green processing machine leader. Kodak's subsidiary FPC sells a variety of leaders:

 

http://www.fpcfilm.com/film-leaders-lab-pr...ne-leaders.html

 

http://www.fpcfilm.com/film-leaders-editorial-leaders.html

 

The continuous processing machines used by labs have dozens of racks and many hundreds of rollers, and so are left threaded at all times. When the machine is shut down, it is loaded with leader, usually made of clear base so it doesn't absorb any chemistry while sitting, causing cross-contamination. The machine leader is often a thicker base (e.g., 7-mil polyester) for added stiffness and durability. Machines with sprocket drive require perforated leader. Machines with "soft touch tires" (often used when both 35mm and 16mm are run on the same machine) can use unperforated leader.

 

Here is the Kodak processing manual, publication H-24:

 

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/support/...=0.1.4.15&lc=en

 

Module 2: Equipment and Procedures - discusses the mechanical components of a processing machine.