daan de Bakker

Hello, I have in my possession a Tobin time lapse motor for the Bolex H16 and a Fujica ZC-1000 single8 camera. I would like to combine these two devices in order to make some nice time exposures. The Fujica has a 1:1 drive shaft, so it should, in theory, be possible. I was wondering if somebody has already attempted this, how it worked out for them and what kinds of modifications were necessary. If you could recommend someone who might be able to get these devices to work in unison, that would be nice as well. I'm located in the Netherlands, but wouldn't mind shipping the motor and camera abroad to get them modified. Thanks, Daan

They both do time exposures, but only the 801 does automatic time exposures.

I have done some 16mm and single8 pinhole stuff, but most of it is time exposures. When using the optimal pinhole size I was at about f100 I could only shoot 24fps when pointing my camera at the sun. A film approach that might work is using a high speed stock like the 7219/5219, using a pinhole with a larger than optimal diameter, shooting at 6fps and then printing each frame 4 times and using lots of light of course. You should get some interesting results this way. This is a good resource to check what kind of F-stops you're going to get: http://www.photostuff.co.uk/pinholec.htm This is where i got my pinholes from: http://8banners.com/index.php Don't know if they're still in business though.

I guess you could measure exposure by using tungsten lighting and filtering the lights. First taking a reading of the set-up without filtration, then doing some bracketed exposures on the infrared stock with the filters on the lights, based on these results you can decide on a compensation factor. This might be more trouble than it's worth though, because I don't know of any source of infrared lighting gels.