chuck colburn

Is that a red wine or a white wine glass?

Andrew, It looks like your shot is softer on the right than the left side. I would say either you test target was skewed to the film plane or something is tilted in the optical path. If it is a problem with your imaging system that could lead to chromatic errors. And since it is an acroos the field error it might be a spacing of the related optical componets error.

When in doubt.... Order more film. Blame the camera tech. say "I didn't know the tape and/or lens markings were in meters" Blame the camera tech.

Justin, First off I'm not a qualified Bolex mechanic so this may be pointless. You mentioned that the lever is loose and does not engage the function it should. Is that part attached to a shaft with a screw? I was wondering if perhaps the retaining screw is loose and is not allowing it to do what it should. As I said I might be whistling dixie here. lol Good luck to you. Chuck

And Chris, don't forget to bring your lights and a sandwhich.

Yeah Chris. We used the mineral oil for even heat distibution and also because we were doing it on a hot plate on the work bench. That way we could poke and prod the lens with a couple of orange sticks to help them slide apart. Oh yeah, and we would put a couple of layers of kim wipes in the botom of the pan so that when they finally did slide apart we would not scratch them on the bottom of the pot.

Hi John, LOL no pile of physical Arris....just how I file stuff in my cobwebbed brain. Chuck

Hi Tim, Yeah this was talked about before, but damn if I can find it. lol What we use to do was take the offending cemented group and slowly heat it up in mineral oil just to the point that they slid apart. Then let the two elements cool down and clean off the excess balsam with acetone. Clean both lenses with lens cleaner and recement. I had a little rig I made up consisting of a flat plate with a couple of rectangular bars mounted on top at 45 degrees to each other to act as an edge guide to hold the two lenses true to each other. Newer optical cements can be almost instantly cured with ultra violet light making for much faster recementing. Now here comes the "WARNING" part. While I never had a lens break on me while heating them up, IT CAN HAPPEN. So if you attempt this with a clients whatever, make sure they understand the risk factor as parts for older equipment just get harder and harder to obtain. But as an Arri camera tech. you already know that. Never throw any lens or camera part away, they can be money makers. Cheers, Chuck

Yep, you are absolutly right. I've always tossed all the Arris of that design in to one pile. With the invention of the spinning mirror reflex they certianly changed the way cameras were built in the future. Eyemos though made it possible for the industry to have a disposable crash camera. lol You use to be able to pickem up for about $25.00 apiece in the sixties. Even cheaper if you bought them by the crate load.

Hey Chris, Hmmm... always wondered why the eye that I used for looking thru the collimator always glowed green after viewing thru one of those old Ektars. Just so all you people who have picked up and old cine lens or viewed thru the eyepiece of an old Arri camera and wondered why everything looked kinda yellow, it's due to the fact that the lens cement of the time was balsam which yellowed with age and is not due to any radioactivity! lol Chuck

HAHAHA, Yeah you probally would not know that. Before he became President of the whole damn country, Ronald Regan was the Guv of California. Just goes to show ya if you want to make it in politics in the USA all you have to do is be a "B" actor first! lol And in my opinon Arnie is a better actor then Ronald ever was.

Hey Chris Cooke, (great last name) Flourite (flouride) optical glass has been around for sometime now. Canon was using it in their cine zooms as far back as the late sixties. And it's been in telescopes long before 2002. It is something that would not be used for every element in the optical path of a given lens. It is used to correct for chromatic abberations. Even though over the years different compounds have ben created, it is not a very durable type of glass and does not stand up to atmospheric conditions very well. It is/was mainly used as one of the internal lenses in the focusing group of zoom lenses. Chuck

Hahahahaha! Shouldn't he be calling lunch break or something?

Yep. Just goes to show that you don't have to be a good actor to be the Guv of Calif. Wait a minute, wasn't there another one?

When did he quit acting?

What you see is what you get. In other words the distance from the subject to the mirror plus the distance from the mirror to your eye/film plane is the real focusing distance.

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Ariel, See alll those companies listed to the right? They are the people who supply equipment for the motion picture industry. Here's one that has what you want. http://www.filmtools.com/ceplrelecap.html

One nice feature on the little ACLs was the interchangable lens standards. That way you can jump between cine and still camera lenses with simply the turn of a locking ring. I remember some talk about magazines and/or motors that either the French or the British ones were superior in some way. The lens mounts pop up on ebay pretty regularly and are not to exspensive. Oh and I believe most of the mounts also allow the use of "C" mount lenses (up to a certain outside diameter).

I don't know if either of these two zooms covers S16 or not, but they are two of the better 16 zooms that Angenieux made for 16mm std. And are pretty fast for zooms. http://cgi.ebay.com/Angenieux-9-5-57mm-Fas...1QQcmdZViewItem http://cgi.ebay.com/Angenieux-16-44mm-T1-2...VQQcmdZViewItem

Michael, You can borrow my propane lighter too! Chuck

TFFunny! Oh yeah and I got a propane lighter you can use for stock inspection. Yes you are mad.

You didn't mention a lens/es. Do you already have them/s?

Wondering why you don't use your 5to1 Cooke and the T 1.4s?

An interesting choice of name since it was already used for a knockoff of the Arriflex 35mm 2C film camera. lol