Sir Alvin Ekarma

I'm looking to switch out my gear and get a beaulieu and I wanted a clarification on the 200ft magazines: can these only be used with the hard-as-hell-to-find 200ft spools where you'd have to spool things off yourself in a dark room or could you you use something like the core adapters from a bolex magazine to shoot that way? (Apologies if this has already been covered; my initial search didn't find anything.)

Correction: a power cable for $70 dollars AND a cheap battery for $30-$50.

I am a digital packrat. http://www.mediafire.com/view/399ot7jm8enof3e/Scoopic%20Batte.pdf To be honest, it looks like a hassle; you could get a power cable from Du-all and a cheap battery from B&H for maybe $30-$50 (I'm not sure what the most appropriate battery would be) and it would come out about the same.

An economic alternative is to get a free swatch book of Rosco gels from a camera store and use those. Just find the gel you're looking for, remove it from the book (the plastic pin holding it all together will come apart with little to no effort), cut it to size, place it in the filter holder and you're ready to go. Still, a proper glass filter is the way to go generally (there are slight focusing issues that can crop up I've been told, not to mention possible light leaks) but this is an effective, emergency short cut.

Yeah, for 29.97 and other odd speeds like when you shoot under certain kinds of lights that will flicker at 24fps or shooting tv screens and monitors.

I'll see your $40 follow focus and raise you $6-$10 gearless follow focus that is dead brilliant in its simplicity. http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=185853 And a link to it in action... http://exposureroom.com/members/teddybear/...31a3758f89b3e4/ Not as robust as the $130 model (a little shopping around actually knocks that around to $75 depending on how you set up the gears that go around the lens-- not so big a lens diameter or maybe just sticking to a zoom, you could use one of these gears http://store.zacuto.com/zip-gear-replacement.html plus the right angle chucks are $15-$20 on ebay) and maybe not as universally applicable but it's dirt cheap and darn effective, if that test reel is any indication.

You should drop a line to Bernie at Super16inc and he could either figure something out or point you in the right direction.

Not to nitpick, but I'd say being able to shoot at f2 (or f2.2 or f2.8) and up still makes the angenieux a solid lens and I'd be happy to use any lens that works in that range; losing 1/2 to 3/4 to 1 stop on the wide end of a faster-than-normal vintage lens isn't a deal breaker. Heck, I've tested a 25mm switar RX wide open and that didn't end up super duper either-- the image just fell apart in its own way (went all muddy and grainy if I recall). Again, just sayin ;)

Well I can only speak from personal experience but I tested the 15mm angenieux from wide open (I think f1.5) to f2.8 and f4 shooting indoors. Wide open was pretty lousy but at the other stops it looked great--- better than the 16-100 RX poe zoom at 16mm and at the same f-stops. Admittedly, this wasn't exactly scientific and there's way more glass in a zoom lens, but I'm just sayin' ;)

Well that's news to me. Places like JK camera have recommended non RX c-mounts as long as they are re-collimated for RX c-mount distance and Dieter at Procam re-collimated a 15mm Angenieux and a 12.5 Cosmicar with nice results.... :)

It should according to posts that I've read here (I got one myself a while back but haven't been able to test it). Just have somebody by like Bernie at Super16 or Dieter at procam re-collimate it for RX distance and you should be good to go.

I suggest going through the feedback, finding others who got one of the S16 rigs, and ask them how its worked out for them. If it sounds good, then godspeed to ya :)

FYI: the zoom on an S16 K3 is good from 25mm on up so if that's your only issue, you're good to go. My experience is that the zoom lens is under-rated and it performed as well as my Pentax M42 primes at 2.8 and above. The only thing you may want to spring for is to have it properly collimated (sp?) to make sure its up to spec.

The K3 is such a simple and rugged camera you should just bite the bullet and get it from one of those Russian sellers provided they have decent feedback. At the very least, you'll need to remove the loop formers and you can find videos for that from the NCS guys on youtube. Personally I've never done it but it looks fairly simple (or just flat out snap them out with needle nose pliers as was suggested to me once upon a time.) Re: SLR lenses. 35mm Wide Angle lens isn't going to cut it. It's been covered here before, but you're only real choices for a wide angle are going to be an 8mm Peleng and a 17mm Zentar. Both are prone to flare so you'll need to rig up a french flag to take care of that and/or jerry rig up some sort of way to put on a lens shade ( I gaffered tape a 67mm to 72mm step ring to my lenses). Actually here's an idear: you could get a k1 or k2 and have them converted to Ultra16 by a guy like Bernie at Super16inc . You can find those dirt cheep, have them converted fairly economically and you won't have recentering issues.

Most of the solutions seem to involve M/MS scoopics, but for the record: Here's a cheap DIY solution http://www.filmclass.com/scooby/ but I don't know for certain if it would work for the older gray Scoopic models. Du-all makes Scopic-to-XLR cables for their batteries http://www.duallcamera.com/store/Batteries_Chargers.shtml Film Group also makes these cables http://www.webtfg.com/sync10.htm

Duall camera in NYC can hook you up... http://www.duallcamera.com/store/Batteries_Chargers.shtml

I doubt it but I can't say for certain. Caveat Emptor.

This is a DIY rig for 35mm DOF adapters, but it should work just as well for a bolex... http://www.dvinfo.net//conf/showthread.php?p=800267

Correction #1: do an Ebay search for "CCTV lens" and you can take your pick. Just get something in a c/cs mount. Correction #2: whether a lens is for 2/3" CCD or 1/3" CCD is less important than whether or not it's compatible with the camera but a lens for 2/3" CCD can usually be used for CCTV cameras that are either 2/3" or 1/3".

Definitely but you'd need to come up with a different way to secure it to the lens but that's something a trip to your local hardware store could sort out. Doubtful plus you'd need some skillz to rock the K3 and not just wreck it up. Plus, it's just a K3-- I don't think it would be worth it. Another thing: I've noticed that I've been using CCTV and CCD interchangeably but for clarification the CCD is referring to imaging dealie in the CCTV camera and they can be 1/3" or 2/3". Everybody probably knew that but I didn't want to confuse matters :)

It would be fine for framing but I don't think you can do really critical focusing although it might be possible if you could get a pricey CCD camera w/ an S-video output; still, you'd be safer measuring out focus with tape to make sure things were sharp. Since this isn't a true tap, you can't check focus via the viewfinder but I imagine a way could be worked out so that the CCD camera flipped out but that's a whole other thing. Another caveat: make sure the Lens is for 2/3" CCD (I think that's the right size) because if it's smaller it may vignette on the camera and it should be 8mm (but a 3mm-8mm zoom lens would be better) and have manual focus and f-stop. When I put together my rig, these lenses were all over the place but they seem to have dried up (or at least the the cheep ones have.)

I'm gonna break your heart: got the CCD camera for around $60 with shipping-- that was probably the most expensive bit-- and still brought the whole rig in for about a c-note. It's pretty easy to find a very cheap, light sensitive CCD camera off Ebay; all I did was take the specs of a high end microscope CCD camera and did some trolling to see which came the closest. The old links in the last post are long dead but finding new ones shouldn't take much effort.

I whipped up something for $100 a while back. You can find more info here... http://www.cinematography.com/forum2004/in...c=15423&hl=

I've seen listings on Ebay for S16 K3 conversions in Russia that will not only mill out the gate, but also recenter the mount so frame center is actually frame center. Basically you just mail off the camera body and you get it back a month later...

It's soft; it only briefly becomes sharp when you pull focus on the dog in that interior shot. Did you set the diopter properly?