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Nicholas Kovats

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  1. Multiple Arriflex 35mm camera models and accessories for sale. They are being sold locally here in Toronto by a reputable rental house. You are responsible for your country's specific custom protocols and shipping arrangements. The seller is old school and will honour serious inquiries on a first come first basis. The cameras were last serviced by Arri Canada in 2012. I was able to catalogue the majority of the equipment. All cameras are 4-perf transports, e.g. 1x 235 MOS w/ 3x 200 and 3x 400ft shoulder mags, 3x viewfinders, IVS analog tap. 1x 435 ES w/ 9x 400ft mags and 2x viewfinders. Includes a very rare 435 ES ICS-1 Time Lapse Capping Shutter Door System Kit. Multiple video taps. 3x 535B w/ each including 2 or 3x M-10 1000ft mags and 3 or 4x LM-1 400ft mags (time code). Two (2) viewfinders. NTSC video tap. Please send serious inquiries to arricamera35mm@gmail.com. Package details and prices are available in the tabbed Google Sheet located here, i.e. https://tinyurl.com/2bde8ead The packages have been priced with the assumption that prudent users will invest in proper CLA(s) for these precision German machines. The seller can arrange as such with Arri Canada if desired. Some pictures are available here, i.e.https://tinyurl.com/vaauvsuu
  2. Hi Matt, We have multiple Arri 35mm packages available, i.e. https://tinyurl.com/2bde8ead Some pics can be viewed here, i.e https://tinyurl.com/vaauvsuu
  3. Jordan, The conversions/re-manufacturing of the Bolex UltraPan8 also have a WYSIWYG 2.8:1 viewfinder. It simply relays/magnifies the 2.8 gate and has a native upper and lower black border composition-wise. I also have a traditional CinemaScope 2.4:1 framelines in my own ULtraPan8 Bolex. My preference is to shoot 100ft rolls of Double 8mm (5+ min) as to the more common 33/25ft rolls (1.5 min). Kodak no longer sells Double-8mm stock. Up until recently an engineer in the UK was re-manufacturing R16mm and 35mm film stock into 100ft daylight rolls but his expensive perf head is no more. I have shot V3 50D, 200T, 250D and 500T in Double 8mm including my fave which is Double-X, e.g. I have also shot Orwo UN54 b/w neg and Fomapan b/w reversal. The latter is tricky to process. Some commercial links for 100ft b/w daylight rolls of Double 8mm film stock, i.e. https://filmphotographystore.com/collections/movie-film/products/double-8-film-cine8-bw-negative-100-iso-high-speed-100-ft https://filmphotographystore.com/collections/movie-film/products/double-8-film-cine8-bw-negative-100-iso-high-speed-100-ft https://filmphotographystore.com/collections/movie-film/products/regular-8-film-cine8-f1-bw-positive-100-ft-100-iso https://filmphotographystore.com/collections/movie-film/products/double-8-film-cine8-bw-reversal-40-iso-100-ft They do have some smaller 33/25ft Double 8mm rolls of color neg/reversal film including Ektachrome 100D. I heard that Wittner in Germany may now be supplying their perforated Double 8mm film stock, i.e. https://filmphotographystore.com/collections/movie-film/products/double-8-film-cine8-color-reversal-100d-100-iso An UltraPan8 conversion of an Arri or Aaton 16mm would be prohibitive and not cost effective. They are significantly complicated precision engineered cameras. Unlike the reasonably simplicity of the Bolex. I could not find an engineer to undertake such an expensive process. My partner did bring up the potential conversion of an Eclair ACL but did not come to fruition. Cheers!
  4. The 16mm half frame format utilizing Double 8mm referenced above is known as UltraPan8 2.8 R8. The native aspect ratio is 2.8 across the exposed 16mm width of unslit Double 8mm. It can be easily cropped to the traditional Cinemascope 2.4 AR in post. Note that Double 8mm is 16mm film stock with double the perforations per foot. This fundamental fact doubles the runtime as there are 80x UltraPan8 frames per foot compared to 40x 16mm frames. A 100ft daylight spool is approximately 5+ minutes total. We have converted approximately 16x Bolex. This is an example of test 50D footage shot by filmmaker Webster Colcord with processing and scan by Cinelab at 2982 x 1215 pixels. I was just advised by Cinelab that the scan was actually down-sampled form the original 6k scan. The concept is similar to 2-perf 35mm spherical non-anamorphic Techniscope.
  5. Use 16mm split reels to create a 100ft core from a 400ft roll or standard 100ft daylight spool and load into the current 200ft ACL mag or 400ft Aaton mag.
  6. From Les's site, i.e. "16mm Cameras Aaton We offer a PL Hardfront & we Can also convert the camera to Canon with our own unique Iris Setting Unit which does not require any external devices i.e. Matchsticks,bits of plastic , etc We also offer a Super 16 Conversion on the LTR"
  7. And then there is the far cheaper ultrawide non-anamorphic solution called UltraPan8. They are re-manufactured Bolex 16mm cameras with 8mm transports. Two variations. They both utilize the full 16mm width of Regular 8mm or Double Super 8 film with an 8mm pulldown . Aspect ratios are 2.8 and 3.1 respectively. The WYSIWYG viewfinders see the full ultrawide gate. The smaller and "cropped" Cinemascope 2.4 aspect ratio can be inscribed in the viewfinder. The fairly common ultrawide Angenieux 5.9mm retrofocus lens is an excellent match for the formats. I also had a PL adapter machined for my personal UP8 2.8 R8 camera. Many examples. We have built approximately 16 to date. 1. UltraPan8 2.8 R8: unslit Regular 8mm - no anamorphics - aspect ratio = 1:2.8 (wider than Cinemascope) "Icebike" - https://vimeo.com/119718851 "mayday" - https://vimeo.com/92484795 "bikepolis" - https://vimeo.com/87991485 “my memories of her are missing - https://vimeo.com/27905787 "At Times I Meditate Nothing" - https://vimeo.com/39417454 "LOW “Just Make It Stop” - Chromoflex UltraPan8 - unofficial" - https://vimeo.com/84740721 “Limitless”. Music video. Music by Rozalind MacPhail https://vimeo.com/81306448 "I Felt Your Pulse" - https://vimeo.com/42810630 2. UltraPan8 3.1 DS8: unslit Double Super 8 - no anamorphics - aspect ratio = 1:3.1 (wider than Cinemascope) "UltraPan8 3.1 inaugural footage" - https://vimeo.com/81306448
  8. I use to have the dimmer 10x viewfinder which switched out for the higher magnification of the more rare 13x viewfinder. I also wear glasses to correct astigmatism and other attributes but rarely wear them against the viewfinder as the diopter range is sufficient with my naked eye. There may be a few craftsmen left that could fabricate a custom diopter that might also correct for astigmatism. Perhaps a friendly optometrist might be be able to help.
  9. Such sonic commercial dreck. I would rather listen and watch badly synced post dubbed German punk Super 8 circa 1983.
  10. Great work, Ben. I have shot alot of footage with my Bolex UltraPan8 2.8 R8 camera and Angenieux 5.9mm Retrofocus lens. Checkout my winter ice bike film where I pushed V3 200T 2 stops (800 ASA) in the lab. The resulting footage was not color-corrected in post regarding the rink (sodium?) lighting. I shot wide open at T2.0/2.8. I think the Angenieux 5.9mm held up. No stabilization. I was skating with my Bolex and chasing cyclists. I would like to have this footage re-scanned at higher resolution and bit depth to bring out even more detail as the original scan was a 3.5 K image sequence 8-bit jpeg.
  11. Jean-Louis Seguin may have them at bolextech@gmail.com.
  12. I am not sure about the XLR 4th pin but it may be redundant. Its been awhile since it was made for me. My pic is a simple overhead, i.e. https://bit.ly/3cwLNUO
  13. This forum will not allow me to upload the picture I took of my custom cable as it exceeds the maximum size allowed. I am not surprised this forum is dying. An engineer at work utilized the wiring diagram in the manual to put together a custom 4-pin XLR to 5-pin DIN cable. The 5-pin DIN connector came form the originally supplied Fairchild cable.
  14. It has since been disassembled but this is the Bescor 12V 4.5A NiMH battery pack I had purchased and used for my testing, i.e. https://www.adorama.com/bonmh54xlrat.html
  15. Nice see to your work, David. Are you still working on your Super 8 prototype design?
  16. What is the "sync sound Leicina camera project"?
  17. No cropping. That is the actual gate. Same with the WYSIWYG optical viewfinder which also has frame lines for the more modest Cinemascope format if one desires.
  18. The Bolex UltraPan8 fromat utilizes the full 16mm width (unslit) of Regular 8 film stock in conjunction with the classic 8mm pulldown, e.g.
  19. Dismissive remarks aside... this is a mind blowing work that is a testament to a very painstaking and detailed 35mm craft involving multiple exposures via contact printing, i.e. http://www.resettheapparatus.net/corpus-work/outer-space.html "Outer Space is – together with L'Arrivée (1997/1998) and Dreamwork (2001) – part of Tscherkassky’s “CinemaScope Trilogy,” which draws on fragments of Hollywood films. It utilizes footage from The Entity (S. J. Furie, 1981), a psychological horror film, in which the female protagonist is pursued by an invisible ghost. In Outer Space it is no longer an unknown entity against which the woman must struggle, but that portion of the filmstrip that is normally unseen when film is projected – the “outer space” of the film’s image, consisting of the optical soundtrack and its perforations. Outer Space is a camera-less film, entirely created in the darkroom by means of an archaic contact copying process. Tscherkassky explains the method: “I place a strip of unexposed 35 mm film on a piece of cardboard that measures 15 by 100 centimeters. The filmstrip itself equals 48 frames in length, which comes to two seconds of projection time. The raw stock I use is orthochromatic – since it is desensitized to red light, I can work in a darkroom dimly lit by a red bulb. The unexposed film is held in place by small nails with which the cardboard is outfitted. I place one meter of found footage on top of my unexposed film stock. The nails of the cardboard protrude through every fourth perforation hole, so I can keep track of the frame lines: 35 mm film has four perforation holes per film frame, each pair of nails holds one frame in place. Subsequently I copy the found footage onto the raw material by exposing it to light. After copying details from 48 frames of found footage, I repeat the process several times over again, exposing the same single strip of raw stock to several different strips of found footage. In this way, I can mix details from entirely disparate sequences and each individual frame becomes an intricate optical collage. Parts of Outer Space include up to five multiple exposures” (Tscherkassky 2012)."
  20. Simon, I am in agreement with the heavier cameras. When did Paillard-Bolex shift their "190 degree shutters" to the current mixtures of 133 (effective?), 144, 180 degree shutters. A tad confusing to keep track.
  21. " "Cine-Technical Papers 1976-1992 by Dennis Couzin" "Notes on Optical Printer Technique" (1983-1987), 32 pages. https://sites.google.com/site/cinetechinfo/
  22. Well, Derick, you lucked out with some tremendous detailed responses from three experts in the field. I understand the attraction to the Beaulieu but the Bolex is one heavier robust battle ready simpler camera for the masses and inglorious film students. It just works and can be serviced so much easier than the more fragile Beaulieu. Does your Bolex have the 10x or 13x viewfinder? The 13x viewfinder significantly improves the Bolex experience. It's not a lightweight alternative to the spring motor but have you heard of Tobin "digital' motors for the Bolex?
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