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Francis Qureshi

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  1. It is indeed a double lined one and we were very careful, now that you mention the pulsing, it does make more sense it is magazine/camera related... I am now suspecting the viewfinder seating.. as I said I had to adjust this. I have been contact with Camera-engeering so I will probably get it serviced at some point. We did think this, I have just had 700ft of exposed film delivered that I will put through a few times and see if a jam occurs again, my co-owner Will, has used and loaded an Aaton XTR in the past so we have some experience with the camera in general but the was out first 100ft daylight film, and doing it doing it ourselves entirely Thanks for the input
  2. Hi everyone thanks for the all the replies so far, we loaded a 100ft spool (with the black discs) into a AATON LTR mag that has the 100ft 'key' on the feed side, the film ended up on a typical 16mm core once exposed. The load was done in what we believe is a light tight changing bag, but it is a no brand one so we are now slightly dubious... One crucial piece of info I missed is that we accidentally taped the mag up too close to the gate lock in area, which meant we ran an entire false take of the stepped zoom sequence where the film was not actually traveling through the gate, (it must have been a fraction of a mm away and therefore not taken up and through) I suspect that the film was unraveling on the feed side at this point. We corrected our taping and loaded the mag and started the test - we did not open the mag. Then just after the first exterior shot the film jammed, opening the mag in the black out bag revealed the film had seemed to had spread out all over the mag on the take up side, some had rolled on to the core, but then it had gone a wry, ribboning and waving all over the mag.. we feed it back on the take up core and all seemed ok. Then we did the final exterior shot with the skates.. I think our black out bag is to blame...
  3. Hi Phil, The wonderful rotating shutter? But that would spin 25 times a second... ? :wacko: F
  4. Hi everyone, first post, long time lurker. I recently bought an Aaton LTR-7 and have just ran my first test film, the result is as follows: https://vimeo.com/210062910 (Excuse my great readings...) We shot with a standard 16mm Angénieux 12-120mm but recorded to super16 as we knew the long end of the lens would cover the s16 frame and wanted to see the extent of the vignettes. What we were not expecting were the red light leaks that crop up on both sides but more so the right side of the frame... I wonder if there any tell tell signs to this type of light leak? I did the S16 conversion myself via instructions from http://cinematography.net/edited-pages/Aaton16mmRegtoSuper.htm - I have a sneaking suspicion the leak could be from where the viewfinder seats on to the top of the camera, I had to move the 'wedge' over and reseat the VF to complete the s16 conversion.. I would love to know your thoughts, - Francis
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