Rudy Velez Jr

is a keystone k-161 a good reliable projector?

Working Tobin Crystal Sync TXM 26 motor Allows the 16mm filmmaker to shoot crystal sync speeds of 7.5/12/15/24/30/48 Also allows 16mm Bolex filmmaker to shoot with HMI lights. I am throwing in my XLR battery. I can provide a video of the motor running upon request

I have Konvas 2M for sale with Crystal Sync Motor, Mattebox, 28mm,50mm,35mm,and 75mm mattes, Baseplate for Mattebox, A mounting plate that goes underneath the Baseplate, A battery with XLR input, and a voltage converter that allows European --> US. MSG me if your interested. I can provide photos, and videos.

Tobin Crystal Sync Krasnogorsk 3 16mm camera. Plastic loop guiders removed to prevent 16mm from scratching against it. The camera is in EXCELLENT working condition. Also included are rubber eye piece and handle. I can throw in a few extra Zeiss Jenna lenses msg me for videos and pictures of the camera working and running.

http://www.tobincinemasystems.com/TCS_Public_PDF/TXM26.pdf Works will all Bolex H-16 models I sent you msg with my email so I can provide you with photos and videos of the motor running

I have Konvas 2M for sale with Crystal Sync Motor, Mattebox, 28mm,50mm,35mm,and 75mm mattes, Baseplate for Mattebox, A mounting plate that goes underneath the Baseplate, A battery with XLR input, and a voltage converter that allows European --> US. MSG me if your interested. I can provide photos, and videos.

Tobin Crystal Sync Krasnogorsk 3 16mm camera. Plastic loop guiders removed to prevent 16mm from scratching against it. The camera is in EXCELLENT working condition. Also included are rubber eye piece and handle. I can throw in a few extra Zeiss Jenna lenses msg me for videos and pictures of the camera working and running.

Working Tobin Crystal Sync TXM motor Allows the 16mm filmmaker to shoot crystal sync speeds of 7.5/12/15/24/30/48 Also allows 16mm Bolex filmmaker to shoot with HMI lights. I am throwing in my XLR battery. I can provide a video of the motor running upon request I am open to meeting up locally within NYC. It has served me well! I hope it finds a good 16mm filmmaker. I can email you pictures and video of the motor working, I cannot upload on this site because my file sizes are too big, just msg me.

The Eyemo really?

What is the lens mount type of a DeVry 35mm 100ft camera?

Did you ever figure out the source of the problem

A great one is a century optics .75x I used it and can link you to an example if you want

I like the way the ND filter looks with the film stock overall I enjoyed the color (250D + ND ) stuff a lot!

I have Frezzloni Mini Slate with XLR plug, I am looking to get rid of it

very cool

Dual Camera in NYC still does I think for 450, its 250 for the plastic loop informer removal which i still have yet to get done. I do know about super 16 because I read that you cannot use the meteor lens at focal lengths of 17,18,19,20 and 22, I am not sure, again I haven't had my K3 modified but I read that the amazing meteor zoom lens works at 22-79. Might I recommend that you stick to regular 16. Dan Dorland uses a 16mm camera his stuff he posts on his vimeo account is really awesome, he seems to know how to blow up the image or crop i am not sure but it looks good. I would stick to regular 16mm, embrace it. I was looking at my 16mm and super8mm tests and I believe that 16mm and super8mm is best viewed on iPhones, it would be cool to make it just viewable on mobile phones. I am contemplating myself also looking into purchasing a 16mm projector and shooting stuff and editing manually and then just projecting whatever I shoot and and for sound I would just play music from iTunes or a cd while the images flickr through the light might not be sync but then again its better than nothing. This stuff I shoot on 16mm wouldn't really dialogue heavy but thats my stuff. I enjoy using the camera like for just capturing street scenes and people. I would like to shoot a music video on it, as I hear many people do and saw your amazing results, kudos to you, i am interested in your lighting and lighting set up. Ultra 16 is probably you best bet if you really really desire the extra space but you lose the top and bottom of your frame which sucks because now you can compose the shot in the viewfinder which for me is essential, there are now at this time a few places to develop ultra 16mm but its now a handful. i think when you get the camera modified to super16mm they include removing loop informers.

oh wow square fronts!

no but I am guessing/hoping it was. i also want to say I am cuba was shot with a konvas. I think i have read somewhere that ivans childhood and andrei rublev were also shot with the konvas. people have said that the konvas was the 1st camera in space and to that i saw where can one see this footage? camera buff is a movie that actually shows someone using a k3! Get on the bus apparently has some scenes shot with a k3 as well, and there is a picture of spike lee with one, some ebay sellers highlight this. So I guess you can mix 16mm with 35mm, so i can still use my k3 with I film with konvas is in the future. dick miller is like harvey kietals brother, it sucks that tarantino cut that scene out between them in pulp fiction but you can see it on the deleted scenes on the dvd.

I saw Tenebre a fews ago which I throughly enjoyed, I wish more of it was filmed in nyc but the opening for me was enjoyable as was the rest of the film, gotta love John Saxons hat in the movie. Check out these: House with Laughing Windows, In the Belly of a Black Tarantula( 3 bond girls are in this!, including the lovely Barbara Bouchet ) and Death Laid an Egg

Hey Matthew, yeah that movie is the one i am referring to not rape of the vampire. You should check out the film movie called "Camera Buff": I saw Camera Buff without subtitles and still understood most of it, that says a lot. Plus the main guy shoots on the russian super 8 camera, the kind of super 8 that uses spools not cartridges, probably 50ft spools then upgrades to a K3, probably bayonet. This was my introduction to Krzysztof Kieślowski How did you see La Marge its so hard to get a copy of at least from my end. I hear the soundtrack is interesting. There was this French horror movie I saw that was similar to a Rollin movie, Un couple d'artistes It was includes on my copy of girl slaves of Morgana Le Fay. also for any fans of Rainer Werner Fassbinder check this out its not subtitled but it is immensely cool, as you can see the most rockstar director ever, direct and act(with Franco Nero no less) his last movies. I have to figure out a way to download it off youtube..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQEDczATf0 check out this trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxfAfCAJ_gI

cool

also there is a company in CT, the film group, google them and depending your camera model they can modify the camera to be sync sound, its like 500$ dollars. my super 8 camera that I love and use is a Bolex 5120 and this camera only shoots 1 frame, 18fps, and 36fps. So I wonder is it possible to shoot at 18fps and sync your footage?

I have a 4pin frezzloni mini slate that i can sell you

wow that post above i made is filled with a crapload of grammar and spelling mistakes but i am too lazy to go back and correct myself so take what you can from that lol also jean rollin is the man, the iron rose being one of my favorites. I purchased a really great movie of his but sadly the copy I have is like a vhs transfer to dvd, i got it on the street, i think its called rape of the vampire but here is what i remember, two chicks commit a robbery and then make their gateway to an abandoned castle ( how rollin, right?) and the girls are wearing clown uniforms, i believe they kill some dude who helped them in the heist before couping up in the castle, then I grew frustrated with my poor copy and told myself this is no way to watch a Jean Rollin movie and stopped. are you a fan of lucio fulci or dario argento?

Matthew, Its refreshing to see another person on this board who uses the same equipment as me and enjoys similar movies. Its a shame i do not live in Chicago cause then we could link up and work on some projects. I am in the same boat as you. I have made the "plunge" into 35mm, literally diving head first. I have done some shooting with my beloved K3, and enjoyed my results, mind you I have only used natural lights and just shot tests and stuff around my limited base of friends and family. I was extremely happy with my exposures and my ability to measure the exposures with my sekonic 408 light meter. Some of the compositions I created just from my simple camera placement were pleasing and some of the locations I choose were interesting. Just loading the K3 is fun for me, and I love that camera soo much. The zoom lens on it so sharp and lovely, I can go on and on it about it. I would imagine my images would be better too, if I (A) removed the plastic loop informers and (B) had my film scanned ( and for that matter processed) at better facilities then the places I go to, but this I will have to experiment with in the upcoming summer. I have had most of my stuff telecined and I am never going to back to that, from now all my stuff that I shoot will be scanned, even my super8 stuff, i know it will be more expensive but worth it in the end. K3 lenses: I love the 17-69 zoom lens and the 8mm peleng fisheye. the peleng becomes a wide angle lens with amazing depth of field when placed at good distance from your subject, when you move in close to your subject which you can do with the Peleng, like literally inches away from the subjects face, the fisheye effect becomes apparent, think of that the shot from fear and loathing when depp is tripping on acid and stares at the bellhop, the distortion you get will mirror that shot save for the vertical swirling effect which I imagine is an added digital effect to the fisheye lens he employed. last summer I attached the peleng to my k3 and took the leather strap from the leather case and attached it to my k3 and went off riding my bike around the city and captured some awesome shots, i tested the lens at night and in a parking lot, and I can tell you it was quite pleasantly surprising. Despite not having ANY lights set up, I could see a lot of depth in the parking garage at night in in the dark, i forget whether I had the lens at 3.5 or 5.6 but still impressive, I can only imagine if I had actual lighting equipment. I never went for the Takumars, but if I were gonna to get more m42 lenses, I would get a 50mm, 37mm, 135mm, 1000mm, 20mm,58mm, and 300mm, and 85mm jupiter, all russian just to test them out. I know that most of these would be telescopic and extreme but still I would like to see it for myself the way it looks. I always wanted to do some astrophotography with my k3 and hook it up to that 1000mm lens but I wondered if the lens itself would protrude into the mirror of the k3, perhaps using the russian teleconveter I purchased a while back would prevent this but have yet to use it in conjunction with my k3.. If and when I purchase the 1000mm lens I will post my results. There are some K3 cameras that had a crystal sync motor on them. they fetch like a grand today but are scarce. I think it would be worth getting but thats me, cause you could do amazing things with the camera if you could actually shoot in crystal sync 24, never mind the camera noise that would not hamper anything and you would have to work around it, the mobility offered by the k3 is worth it, also the image quality. Imagine doing a 2 minute long take with the camera, very appealing. Sadly it would no longer be hand cranked and you would need a battery, again bescor battery back to power it up but no big deal, get two and a charger so when one drains the other is charging. You might want to look into that. so onto the Konvas. I was able to purchase a Konvas cameras with motor recently, looks like its in good shape. I still have to save up and work to afford to get these cameras serviced, the main problem i have so far is that the magazines are in poor condition and need a full overhaul, luckily Olex does them, sadly he is busy fixing some Anamorphic lenses for some other customers and will not be able to take new orders until he completes his work the anamorphics but Olex is the man! He is amazing technician and is super nice and answers your questions in a timely fashion. Send him an email if you have any real questions about the Konvas. If you get a konvas make sure you get the 5a fuses for the motor(raf camera sells these), and make sure you scoop up as many 17epk motors as possible, this is the crystal sync motor, you could get the regular 15 motor but lacks crystal sync 24fps. In terms of battery, I probably would say get a bescor battery, but before that have the motor converted to 4 pin XLR, again this something Olex can do. a while back I purchased a cine60 belt I am not sure its voltage but it needs to be recalled, luckily and amazingly the cine60 store still exists and is in nyc so I can just take a train there and leave it there for the people of cine60 to recall, i think it will run be like 300 dollars, I also have a light for the cine60 complete with filter but I do not have the bulb, hopefully they can supply me with one, its pretty cool, but most folks use Bescor, check it out on BH website. The 2M/8M is the better konvas however there are a few 1MS on ebay from Moscowphoto, whom I purchased my k3 from and is trust worthy. You could purchase one from him, which has the crystal sync motor, and then save up a little bit and send it to Les Bosher in the UK( paying for that s&h roundtrip will be killer so save up) and have him converter the turret into a single lens which is preferred, you have him make it Nikon mount, OCT 19, mount or PL mount, I have seen some with both a PL mount and OCT 19, so that might best. Nikon mount works if you find a Eyemo and want to upgrade but I do not know if you can put a follow focus on a nikon lens, if you can go with that. Here is the thing, yes we all want PL MOUNT but the lenses themselves are REALLY expensive. now you could get all the m42 lens you have come to enjoy converted to PL mount particularly the Russian m42 mount lenses, which I have seen on ebay and wonder how they look when used with 35mm film, then you could use PL mount but people will tell you whats the point, the point being that you can afford some lenses and have the PL mount so when you have the money you can rent great glass from your local rental company. Right now I am opting to stick with my OCT-19 mount and collect OCT-19 lens. I understand they are not has good as Zeises ultra primes but again I have a few of them and will use what i have...People will say the lomo lenses are soft but forget that, while it is true, you don't need ultra sharp lenses and I presume you can compensate for the softness with lighting,but i am no expert. Plus you seem to like the same films as me, the Czech new wave stuff, tarkovsky, color of the pomegranates, the lenses they had at time they shot their movies was probably close to the OCT 19. Tarkovsky shot with a konvas for all of this up until Andrei Rublev, after the I think he shot with western cameras, i have photos of him with an arrifelx bl camera for the sacrifice and nostalgia, but i digress. i love walerian borowczyk as well, have you seen the beast, totally far out movie, i also like goto and love rites. I can't say I've seen dr jekeyll mr.hyde, thats a pretty rare on his works. one of his movies i want to see is the margin also known as the streetwalker, with emanuelle herself and joe d. check out my friend ivan lapshin by alexi german, i am sure it was shot on konvas..also the work of larisia sherpikvo, which i am sure i spelled wrong but is available on criterion collection, her film Wings is extraordinary, she was the wife of Elem Kov, the guy who directed Come and See. What dvd version of arrebato do you have, i have been looking for a nice remastered version. Awesome film taste! I found some information about that director in an old book in my schools library and took a photo of it with iPhone. He died shortly after that movie, he may have done something after it but I am not sure. I was researching Spainsh filmmakers after I saw Spirt of the Beehive, which blew me away. I always kinda of new about about Arrebrato I read up on it cause while visiting one of the many mondo dvd retailers i frequent I saw read description for it and thought I NEED to see this. The guy who made that shot films entirely on super8 and it would be so cool if that was remastered and released! I have a few OCT-19 lenses and the man thing i am worried about is storing these badboys, see I live in NYC and we undergo various and crazy weather. when its cold its cold and when its hot freakin' hot. I have to make my way to B&H or Adorama probably on Sunday, since they are probably closed Saturdays, to look at the Pelican cases and decide which one I want, and which would fit my Konvas 2m camera body and motor? I would consider hari-kari if any of my lenses caught mold or fungus since they appear minty. So that is my concern. I could get a pelican case used but then I would have to replace the o-rings and the foam and for that might as well get a new one and the buy extra foam and o rings for the future. Also I would probably want a RucPack so I can make the case backpack and a humidifier to eliminate any and all moisture. I have seen on eBay these lens storage kits that look like wine bottle storage units except they are marketed for camera lenses, these camera lens storage units have temperate control and led lights inside to illuminate the inside. However I am a bit leery about purchasing them since, they are made in Asia and I feel would be poorly manufactured and arrived damaged/broken. I was at a local store in my area and saw a wine bottle storage case for sale for roughly the same price and it basically has the same features and look, led temperate read out and control and some led lights inside for illumination. So is it worth purchasing these lens storage cases? Could I just buy a wine bottle storage case which it looks like does the same thing and then set the temperature appropriately? I will surely have more, I have had time yet to really play with mine since i have been busy earning some $ and writing, but now that the weather in nyc is getting nice, I will be out and about taking pictures and shooting 16mm until my konvas are ready. how can i get my ground glass made into 1:85, can that even be done? would I have to change my gate?