Tyler Decker

I have an Arriflex 16 SR that has stopped working. When the red test button is pressed the motor rotates the shutter and the pull down claw engages. When the camera switch is moved from stop to ready the internal light meter turns on. So far everything functions normal. However, when you flip the switch to run, the motor does not start and a red light comes on inside the view finder. The battery is fully charged tested it with a multi meter, and tried a different battery to be sure. The owner’s manual says that a red light will come on in the view finder when the camera doesn’t have enough power to maintain a sync speed. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Does anyone know what the cause of this problem would be? Could it be that the voltage regulator is broken, or maybe the sync crystal is malfunctioning? Does anyone know where a more detailed camera manual for this camera can be found? Like a troubleshooting or service and repair manual.

Contact the Public Affairs office at the nearest Army Base, and tell them what you want. They won't just give you a military vehicle, the military requires anyone that drives one to go threw training and for insurance purposes has to be in the service. But what you can hopefully do is get the Public Affairs office to find a unit that will supply you with a unit that has the time to spare to let you film some shots of a humvee with one of their guys driving it of course. I don't know how much footage you need and what all you need this humvee to be doing.

Something that you might want to keep in mind is shotting reversal film on super 8mm and buying a projector to view your footage. Don't spend money on transferring your footage to digital right away. If you have a local photo lab in your town you should see if they transfer super 8mm to video, they are in the market to do this for people that want to transfer their old home movies so it's not as good of a transfer as you would get from a professional lab, but it's still pretty good. The local place near me charges 12 cent per foot which works out to be $6.00 per super8 cart, not bad at all. Oh, if you do go to a place that is in the business to transfer old home movies they more then likely won't be able to transfer negative film. I would also suggest that you don't try and shot something to complex, story wise with your first roll or two. Just go out and shot things you'll find interesting or experiment, epically if you get a camera that does time lapse, and different frame rates. Shot every frame rate you can so you can see what all the different things your camera can do.

I called Pro8mm a few months back seeing if they had any. Sadly they did not.

Yeah it is Vision 3. Here is a link to the demo trailer. <a href="http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/hub/v3/evolution.jhtml"> http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/hub/v3/evolution.jhtml </a>