John Adderley

Hi Dom many thanks for confirming that for me. It is very helpful. I had made up the Tuchal connector correctly but I was afraid to apply it to a friend's camera until I was cast iron sure. The Connector is, for anyone's future reference... from eBay £17.09 Amphenol-Tuchel T3301 001 SOCKET, FREE, C091-U, 4WAY 181883171626 Sold by PETELOX It came very quickly and it is a bit of a mission to wire it up. John Adderley FRGS Kinematographer London www.adderley.net www.theracetocinema.com

Re. Bolex H16 EL Can someone supply me with a picture of the 4 pin Amphenol connector on the 12V lead showing the polarity of each output? on the feed side the connectors are female. I have wired up the connector according to the numbered pins showing in the H16 EL Manual but I would just like to make sure. it is not clear on the drawing if what is shown is camera body side or feed cable side. John Adderley FRGS Kinematographer London www.adderley.net www.theracetocinema.com

I sent a FISHEYE NIKKOR AUTO 1:2.8 F=8MM LENS BNCR CONVERTED lens to Wales for the BNCR rebuild to be changed to BNCR + PL double mount. Serial number 240613 It was sent through Transglobal Express who used UPS to carry it. After a few days and upon checking the tracking it was reported missing at the Tamworth Hub. It was then further reported after a week or so that it was lost. I kept watch on the internet and posted on various lost gear websites no result yet. It then appeared on eBay and finally now I have the Bedfordshire Police about to work on the case crime number for theft 23/12527/22 As yet 21/4/2022 no other signs of it have appeared. Please keep an eye out for it as it is a pretty rare lens because Samuelson film Service bought and converted to BNCR four Nikkor 8mm lenses, this was a major undertaking and very expensive as there was a huge amount of work to be done. Basically the whole thing had to be re-engineered with lots of new parts made, the cost was astronomical. I can’t prove this part as it was told to me by David Samuelson years ago, He’s now died. However should it be contentious we can probably find someone who was there at the time and can confirm this. There is the possibility that some other rental houses also performed this conversion, however we can confine ourselves to the ones made by Samuelson’s because there are at least four “Signature” points that identify this lens as being built by them. In addition the box has a Samuelson film service asset number on it. I know for certain that one of them is still owned by Panavision (who bought Samuelson’s in 1998) because I used it about four months ago, However the mount has been changed. It’s also possible that the other two are in the US and have been modified by Marty Oppenheimer for a different mount. The lens with the serial number 240613 was disposed of by Panavision to a dealer to called Tony Covell somewhere around the turn of the century (Tony Covell is still about and will remember the transaction if not about the exact date) he then sold the lens to John Adderley. John Adderley has owned it ever since and remains the owner. Thanks for reading. John Adderley FRGS Kinematographer London

Does anyone know the current value of the AKC-4? Also I need the polarity of that two pin socket on lower part of the motor. I assume the two pin socket next to the inching knob is sync. April 2019