Nicholas Kovats

Hi Scott. TJ responded, i.e. "Hi Nicholas, thanks for reaching out, unfortunately not able to offer Super 16 conversions as a service yet. hoping to source some more machining equipment this fall and hopefully update my website with more info next year when I can offer conversion services. hope that helps for now, all the best! TJ Ediger"

Thanks for contributing Leo, to my original 11 year old post!

Hi Don, Slight correction. TJ of Pigeon Creek Camera is originally from Alberta but resides in the beautiful Kawarthas region of Ontario north of Toronto. https://www.pigeoncreekcamera.com/ Yes, indeed he fulfilled Jean-Louis Seguin's 10,000 hour apprenticeship. 🙂 I sent a query to TJ if he is in fact offering Bolex super 16 conversions.

Found Matt McWilliams, i.e. https://sixteenmillimeter.com/projects/mcopy/

Robert, Does Matt McWilliams have contact info or a web site?

Hi Aaron, You could also post this on, i.e. 1. Frameworks list 2. Facebook Groups such as Bolex, Super 8, Filmmakers who shoot 8mm and 16mm, etc. Best of luck! Nick K. Toronto

Congratulations! Fantastic work! Precision well done!

Fantastic! Thanks for posting this latest 35mm high speed uberness,

Thank you, Erik for taking the time to share your onsite experiences from such a fascinating period. Vivre la intermittent film transport!

Congratulations on your life's work. It is well done and has the requisite Super 8 charm and feel. Bravo.

No articles on the magnificent ZC1000?

NASA utilized upwards of 50 x high speed 16mm, 35mm, 65mm and 70mm cameras surrounding the gantry. All pin-registered. Some cameras such as the Photo-Sonics Actionmaster 500 16mm HS camera had simple "metadata" exposed to the right of the frame, e.g. time in seconds, date, camera #, etc. They had upwards of 10x huge Photo-Sonics 70mm-10A high speed cameras. Most of the cameras were predominately Photo-Sonics. Some encased at the base with quartz portals. I have two of the Photo-Sonics Actionmaster 500 16mm HS cameras with one utilized by NFL films. I had both converted to 3 or 4 pin XLR power connectors utilized with 8x cell LiPO 29.6V. It can peak at 11 to 15 amps on startup. One was converted to a PL mount. Uses 2-perf 16mm film stock with twin registration pin and pulldown. Exceedingly sharp frame line. This was a quick registration test shot at 24fps with E100D, i.e. https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/612179757 This was a quick document of UK filmmaker Cherry Kino testing our initial "prototype" with the camera tied to a huge power source consisting of batteries and huge ceramic capacitors in a milk crate. Fun times. https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/222611616 My original intent was too utilize them predominately as rock steady MOS 24fps in conjunction with the internal digital crystal sync (PLL). Amazing tech circa 1969 - 1971 regarding this PAM 500 16mm. Multiple Photo-Sonic 16mm and 35mm camera shutters can be synced which David Fincher utilized to great effect in The Fight Club (35mm). Nolan utilized Photo-Sonics 35mm cams at their maximum 360fps in Inception. Photo-Sonics even built a very rare 1000 fps 16mm camera with 8 rego pin/pulldown transport. The president of the company admitted to an fps war with either Locam or Redlake. These cameras are incredible "intermittent" transport systems not the faster but lower resolution prism transport systems which utilized frame blending. Intermittent is king for maximum frame sharpness.

There is not much left from the original design including the pin registered transport. Apparently standard rinky dink pulldown claw. Would be interesting who actually manufactures the camera. Did they upgrade the sd video processor to actual 1080p output? Or are they upscaling the original 480p SD spec? Will it use the same audio file system as the Logmar? Many questions. It would be beneficial if 3rd parties improved the crappy plastic S8 "co-axial" cartridge. With a darkroom loader in conjunction with a new machined or carbon fiber cartridge. I suspect the social media "influencers" will drive a hefty percentage of the initial modest run. This could get weird regarding eco-system and accessories. Think pink Barbie collectors edition. Or maybe not. I can see Nolan and Spielberg buying one in support of the effort. But not Deakin. It may trigger cheap Eastern copies with the associated cheaper labour and associated massive supply chain. Maybe not. This is a fun and wacky world whereby proud owners of $25 dollar crappy Super 8 cameras straddle one side and the digital boxes with 500 lbs of attached accessories crowd on the other.

Did you read the preceding posts? I and others go into great detail with scanned examples regarding the current Bolex UltraPan8 2.8 R8 system that utilizes Regular 8 film stock.

Look at your father go! Wonderful memories recorded on film. Well done.