Erkan Umut

Ohh yes. I love my Eclair ACL! I just received over the Internet some twelve minutes of footage from DeJonghe I shot on Tuesday. It came out perfect, despite the fact that this was the first time that...

1) ...I used my PL-mount adapter and some Optar Illuminas

That sounds amazing! Glad to hear.

I had the opportunity to work with OPTARs in the past, they had very good contrast.

Optar Illuminas are made by JSC "OPTIKA" in St. Petersburg (in the USSR: NPO "EKRAN", Leningrad) exclusively for the U.S.

You are close, did you visit the factory?

Well done Erkan, a great resource.

Dom, thank you very much for your good words!

Light n ing.

 

It means both, the pastry éclair is a straightened version of the naturally occuring. Imagine confectioners imitating a jagged one! An unsteady hand helps, quite the contrary of what camerapeople must afford.

An engineer's approach of course. :D

Excellent!

Dear Heikki,

Sincere thanks for your continuing interest!

Guys, please be patient, there are lots of information both of junk to be cleaned, and perfect to be added. Need time...

Cameras éclair

Hi Folks!

Does anyone have the instruction manual of Silma 8S macro zoom camera?

Scans will be highly appreciated.

Best

Erkan

Dear Members,

I am a Prof. of Cinematography, and desperately need help.

I am looking for a member whose has engineering knowledge and/or is interested in the subject.

I have a 6-page Chinese (S) engineering document (in .doc or .pdf) related to the 35mm movie projector framing device specifically.

Can anyone help me?

Your help will be highly appreciated!

Best,

Erkan

OMG, it's so nice to hear from Charlie again!!!

The lamp is 6V 10W.

A photo tutorial will be posted soon...

Dear Bengt,

I wish I had one.

What I need is an instruction manual for my document collection.

Best,

Erkan

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pathe-Electronic-Duolight-DS8-and-16mm-Service-Manual-/400346559320

Thank you Mark!

Its a service manual.

I am looking for the instruction manual of PATHE ELECTRONIC DUOLIGHT in any language.

Thank you very much for your attention!

Hi, Erkan. When you say "share" do you mean scans of the catalog or the original printed catalog? Glenn

Hi Glenn!

Absolutely scans of the catalog.

Many thanks!

Erkan

Hi Folks,

Does anybody have the following catalog to share?

Many thanks for all your efforts!

This is the working link for the Cinema Products CP-16R Operations and Maintenance Manual:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/82962359/Cinema-Products-CP-16R-Operations-and-Maintenance-Manual

Enjoy!

By the way, some of us warned about this before: Our subject and purpose of this post are for a new-born Super 8 camera. Why do we jump to other formats and cameras? :D ;)

You can modify the gate of a regular 16mm camera for Ultra 16, which is a lot less than the cost of a brand new camera. There are a lot of these cameras around and possibly the only thing wrong with some is they just need new/refurbished electronics.

Exactly Brian, so correct!

Guys, please don't understand me wrong, but will we want to go back to the end 1800's and the beginning to 1900's?

More sophisticated cameras do need a group of engineers, technicians, etc., as well as more complex manufacturing facilities. Don't be dreaming so much! Even you want to copy them! History tells everything...

Some cameras accept replaceable 2-perf. movements by native design, not all. But some houses offer the custom-built movements to the non-replaceable cameras.

But the ARRI cameras having the 2-perf. mounted, due to low torque, may cause jams in the magazines except AATON specially built for it.

Its definitely not a new approach. The exactly same format called TechniScope, designed by Italians, was available on the market in the 60s and 70s.

sure but guys ..come on ... try to understand what i am saying ....

 

sure , there must be some SRIII in good shape or Aaton minima... but

first , those video assist are truly terrible ( mostly ntsc and black and white )

second they are heavily used (10+ years ...)

 

i go to ebay from time to time and everything that is no SRIII ( meaning SR or SRII) feels incredibly used and as said above video assist is bad ...

 

in here i was trying to feed the idea to get a Krasnogorsk-3 ( http://www.k3camera.com ) but with LESSE concept (battery, Crystal sync, hd color video assist and audio ) ...

 

 

Well looks like no one wants it ...so they probably won't consider it ... (i am a bit amazed actually how so many have jumped in to say NO! ... , i still think you have no point because a Krasnogorsk-3 but with LESSE concept does not exist ...

 

 

anyway

Never worked with an SR-3 having a bad video assist and B&W before... Maybe you point out the SRIIs having the VAFE made by PHILIPS. 10 years are nothing for those workhorses just after a general overhaul.

Then your source should be not eBay with cheap priced offerings thrown away from rental houses. Try other dependable sources such as Visual Products, Inc. in the States, or pay more on eBay for individually used equipment...

Forget about to take your time and spend your money with a K-3, even you cannot thread film automatically without frills. Thou its steadiness is not so bad, I and Mr. Kenneth Richter (designer of the RICHTER Auto-collimators and small EMP 16mm helmet cameras, won a Technical Oscar) had checked the steadiness at my home in Istanbul in 1991. When you hit the camera somewhere, you gonna loose its TTL exposure meter system instantly...

I don't think there'd be a market, there's so much cheap used super 16 gear available and those cameras have a life of over 20 years, if not longer.

I agree with Brian completely!

For Super 8, a sophisticated camera well described before, it is a need.

But for Super16 and 35mm, there are a lot of 2nd hand sophisticated cameras already on the market.

Indeed. I find the aperture ring way too friction-less though when used on another camera... is there any trick to make its movement a bit more smooth?

Once I have tested it: Leaving a lens in cold helps, causing to force the internal grease viscosity gets solidified. But not a proper solution...

By the way, interestingly, I never faced with that problem, a lens behaves different when used in different camera mounts in same type...

In my opinion there are a few that are very good for film use like the one mentioned the Computar 12.5 - 75 TV zoom, I have this lens, it's available new and it’s a very fast lens and does produce sharp images, I have used it for 16mm and Super 16 not Super 8, the non zoom Cosmicar/Pentax 16mm and 25mm lenses are also very good for both Super 8 and Super 16. The best CCTV zoom lens for Super 8 I found is the Pentax 8-48 which is also available new.

By the way, I am the admin of the popular ECLAIR 16MM COMMUNITY @ http://eclair16.com.

We have been discussed these lenses among the followers a lot of time. They have got good results when the correct lenses are used.

Yes, PENTAX and Cosmicar offer good manual lenses as far as I know. I don't like the new manual lenses with the locking mechanisms on the lens barrels...

 

Thank you for bringing this one up Erkan, I had been contemplating it for some time. Seems they are still available new from one source. I can live with a twiddly smooth aperture but when you say the results were "not bad", how do you mean it specifically? Not bad in comparison to other TV lenses? or compared to the Fujinon 1.8 / 7.5-75mm? or to other cine specific C mounts generally? If I'm reading it to mean not bad in your experience, it would be a good bet, but asking just making sure... :)

You are welcome by all means!

I should check the film I've shot again just to be more specific and correct, but I have no Telecine possibility at home to share with you unfortunately, and I do not want to transfer it to digital using my projector thou my ELMO is one of the good models.

In any case, it may be not correct to compare it with the TV Zooms. I never try to compare it with Kern lenses, etc. of course. But its OK for its price, and available as brand new. Also, its made in Japan from a good company at least. Worth to try...

Certainly, keep away from the lenses Friedemann told before. But this lens and similar are different than those. Let me check my literature as I have almost all the documentation form serious manufacturers.

What I know exactly is I've tested several times for the back focus on the eclair ACL II and FUJICA ZC1000 C-mounts for its clearance to the mirrors. Everything is proper and perfect. Good built quality.

Hope this helps for now.

computar CCTV lens, made in Japan - C-mount - f/1:1.2-16 plus Closed, F=12.5-75mm (very reasonable priced, Cons for filmaking: a little smoother aperture friction than I used to)

I had used it on a FUJICA ZC1000 New once, the results were not bad...