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steven jackson

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  1. My ACL is a Visual Products conversion yet I still get flicker when using certain lenses, even though they cover super16. I have found that my arri lenses for my 35mm camera offer the best results and no flicker.
  2. Makes a strong case for the 144 degree shutter.
  3. Looks perfectly timed to me. Thanks for sharing this.
  4. For me, the Arri B/Standard mount is the one I use the most, but I'm sure a PL mount would be welcome as well. Good luck on the project.
  5. And this one is a Nikon F adapter. I'm not sure if it's a factory model or not. Both the Arri and the Nikon F are very well made.
  6. Here's my two cents. First one is a Bosher or perhaps Chrosziel ?? Arri B/S adapter, which I find most useful of all the adapters.
  7. I don't know if Mutascan will do Fuji, but I know Dejonghe in Belgium will.
  8. so that would work equally as well for a transaction of $1 (which is what paypal does to confirm new members identity!)? $25 is a rather hefty amount to expect to place an ad. In any case, it was a deterrent for me when wanting to post an ad for my eclair motor.
  9. Deals are out there but you have to dig. A super16 Eclair NPR converted by Les Bosher just sold on Ebay for 2300€ and amazingly, It took two goes on Ebay for it to finally sale at that price.! For info, I may be selling my Visual Products converted Eclair ACL II camera that comes with a pile of accessories and a newly serviced motor. It's a gem of a camera.
  10. For Sale: A newly serviced by AZ Spectrum late model Eclair ACL II Heavy Duty Motor. Only used for testing since I got it back in November 2023. One of the upgrades that AZ does is the mirror parking feature is now instantaneous rather than the slow crawl back to the viewing position. Works perfectly. 1500€ net to me. I'm in Belgium. Probably the only one like it currently for sale on the planet.
  11. I have a camera that was converted by Paul Scaglione in 2005 and another thing he does is mill away part of the body (viewfinder side) so that once the mounting plate for the adapter is shifted to re-center the lens, the adapter can seat properly without hitting the camera body. My shutter is a 144 degree, with some counter weights on it, but I still get some flicker when using certain lenses. Yet some lenses, no flicker. ??? Perhaps VP would machine the gate for you.
  12. https://www.ebay.de/itm/305354626255?hash=item47188dd4cf:g:GBwAAOSwNA1lpBXv&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwNjmR7tBdSabObxX45KhF2zAS9bt8Y8funaSzFrDDBQU85k1jxNlda%2FrBkjvvY9D3m8MFeE6WIdQpB4muizgoruCnc0uy5l%2B25Dw7h3ZRNhZb3BnXYoQ0T8%2FYGMrM3TOHOpDiGgNf0qSpimVL4ii%2F1p3aMDVG7d5yu6yx4e4tRODVvwN89OKCYOzVeFC3nPzi5g0apHLmoMa2qMfiREg14URLbtxRadZnEXqXYCGGa3HmL0MlMIP41NZ1yAu0EC6Gg%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR-72xNCjYw
  13. Was owned by a fellow named George Zorzoli whose premises is now occupied by Halftime Barbers, according to Google maps.
  14. I've looked at this page many times over but somehow missed this little bit of info on being able to adapt the NPR viewfinder to the ACL, which I didn't think was possible, however, the author states that he has done this and it was adapted by a company called Optical Electro House in Culver City.
  15. I remember this and it seems that the installation needed to be done by a profe$$ional.
  16. I just ran a test roll on a recently acquired super16 ACL, converted by Visual Products that has been modified with a 144 degree shutter. For what its worth, I've owned a number of ACL cameras and have always done a lubrication service on them myself and I've never had any experience with flicker on any of my standard 16 cameras. I decided to set the camera on a tripod and shoot out of the window onto a full sun cityscape scene and test all of my super16 compatible lenses, running from a 5.7mm Kinoptik to a 300mm Nikkor. When I first got the footage back, I noticed some really faint flicker, so I just assumed it was throughout the roll, but when I looked at the footage again, I realized that with certain lenses, there was no flicker! The lenses that had zero flicker were the 5.7mm Kinoptik, a 16mm Zeiss Distagon, Schneider 25mm Cine-xenon, Schneider 28mm Xenon and Schneider 35mm Xenon. I also use the 16mm-35mm lenses on an Arri IIc. (I tested 13 lenses in all--- one 12.5-70mm Angenieux zoom, the rest were primes, 4 of which were Nikon F lenses, 85mm, 105mm, 180mm and 300mm. The other lenses in the test were a Schneider 16mm cine-xenon, Schneider 50mm cine-xenon, and Schneider 75mm xenon ). From this experience, it would seem that flicker can actually be related to the optics being used. I had a look at the mounts on the lenses to see if there was any relation to them either being chrome or painted black and the answer is no.
  17. the little latch was only on the earliest small base models.
  18. I would be curious to see those photos, if you don't mind posting them here.
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