Luca Bonicalza

Hi! I do lens servicing in Italy! Let me know ?

Dear Dave, thank you for your reply. Yes your'e right! I really love to explain what is going on the servicing but picture are, for sure, a very interesting thing! Thank you for your suggestion!

Thank you Jon for your message! Yes, it's the motion picture film love that move things! ? Shot film!!

Hi Cengizhan, yes, if you make a 3952 x 2964 pixel frame line you will obtain 24mm x 18mm exactly. Bests Luca

Hi everyone, I'm bothering you since I'm opening a new lens and camera servicing company in Italy. Seems to be the only one company here and probably one of few in Europe. So just you know, if you need help I'm here. But I'm not writing you today as advertising: I need help from you, I'm looking for a new way of making this job. The company will be innovative, we are looking for a new way of doing things. We have developed something new in payment management but nothing new in reality, it's the same service you get from the fidelity card when you go shopping. For me this is not enough, I need your needs in timetables, service, everything. And I need your dreams of the best servicing company that could ever exist, since we will be this company ? ? I hope you will enjoy this Thank you very much! Luca

Hi Cengizhan, I would suggest that the camera should be already tested by the rental house camera technician, so you should consider the camera fine. But check this with them. Do steady test, lens focus test, GG to gate test, mags test. Check mag's battery have been replaced or still working fine. Check for camera noise. I would suggest to make camera and mags run with film for some time. If you are not sure about something, check it with the technician. About the format: - S35 1.33 silent 1.33 format GG K2.54083.0 with projected area of 24.0 x 18.0 - N35 1.33 TV safe GG K2.54100.0 with transmitted area of 20.2 x 15.2 - N35 1.37 academy + 1.33 TV safe GG K2.54000.0 with projected area of 21 x 15.2 @1.37 So you have both type, DP needs to define it since the dimension is different and with S35 it will have larger image, and need an appropriate lens coverage. Hope this will help Luca

No, Chris, I don't know the name. Is a black paint with small spheres inside, and I can tell you that it is a special effect one, that means that the final look depends only how you apply it.

Hi Chris, nice to meet you. I actually sent all the pieces to the car painter and I've worked with him to find a paint that could imitate the original wrinkle effect but that could be cook at 40°C. In fact, you can find wrinkle paints online but they need to be cooked at 120°C! Bests Luca

Dear all, I'm looking for an Arricam ST IVS HD 4:3 lens and 2x cinemascope ground glass and glow. Does anyone have or know where I can get them? Thank you and many wishes Luca

Hi Dom, how are you? Thank you for your reply. Just to be sure I'm going to recieve one borrowed and we asked for anothervone, moreover Arri sent us the pinout: it's only tz, rx and gnd connection so it's really easy. Thank you very much!

Dear friends, I'm writing you here because I'm looking urgently for the pinout of the k4.54630.0 cable, the one to connect the Arricam to the PC for the 2/3/4 modification registration. Does anyone have a cable to test it or the datasheet pinout? Thank you so much! Luca

Dear Aapo, forgive me for my late reply! Well, I have not started this project yet, until now I have only tested the camera.. Working on is really slow because I work too much inside the company :D :D Anyway, I was thinking to add a multi switch, with 10 or 12 position, in order to select only defined speeds. I don't want to add a display on it, since I really like the analogue look of the camera. The switch (that would look as a cronographer) would be backlighted in RGB, so that you could understand in it's running at the correct speed or if are happens some failures. Sure, one arduino board will not be enough to organize a checking circuit, so I was planning to add one more arduinio nano board for this kind of things. During the latest time I've studied a lot for the ham radio exam, so I'm learning a lot about electronics: I hope it will be useful for this project. Meanwhile, an 80 years old colleague (he used to operate on movies) gave me two xtal sync unit, a 2C camera and also a beautiful stroboscopic light! So, right now I don't need anymore my xtal sync unit anymore.. :D :D Dear Derrell, may you explain a little bit more? Thank you everybody!

Hi guys! How are you? I have not worked on my 16BL for a long time: so many things to do and I also left the company I was working for for a new one, but now, with this coronavirus quarantine, I have a lot of time for my lovely camera! I have sooo many things to say and pictures to post, so please forgive me if pictures are small but you know, there is a maximum! If you want to have more specific pictures or description, just ask! I'm sure I'll forget to write you now all the things I have to say. First of all I have worked on the lens blimp, that now is completely painted and rebuilt. You have seen something in my latest post, but here there is a picture of the blimp before and after the work: it looks new (I mean, I hope so, I have never seen it new). Pictures are not fine because of my low quality phone. and after: After that I also have opened the Angenieux 12 120 - recoated the iris (we will see in the time how this coating will survive) and cleaned ALL the elements from the fungus except the fungus that is inside the first doublet that I can not open. Work has been nice, now I have to check if the lens still collimated before insert it into the blimp. And this is the fungus in the douplet: Next I have worked on mags, since I'm waiting a welder in order to re plug the electrical circuit inside the camera blimp. I had a problem with the mags, because at the beginning I had to unmount the rubber and I couldn't find any kind of rubber that would be fine. Then I have found a synthetic bicomponent rubber, use for model tyres, and seems nice, but sure I'll have to check now much noise will pass thought it. Today I have completed (I just need to plug two more elements) the first mag, and now I have to wait for the sunny days in order to make the runner catalyze. What do you think? Best regards Luca

Hi everybody! I'm back, I really didn't had the time for anything. In this long period I got reanalyzed all the parts, and I also had all the camera repainted. I'm actually regaling with the rubber the two pats of the mag, using the tool I made before: quite a difficult and loooooong work! I've assembled the blimp, and repainted the scales! Here you can see two pictures, before and after! Originally the blimp was making lot of noise so, since I don't want a noisy blimp, I've tried with some abrasive paste to smooth the interior part and that's work pretty good, but I should do it more! And, of course, I put new grease ? Here one picture of the new painting: it is not the original one, but easier to paint and with a really really nice result! Can you see the difference? I don't have more space for pictures, but I hope you enjoy that ones! Bests!! Luca

Just received the stamps (I LOVE THEM)!! What do you think about? And here the tool I've build to reglue the mag: Bests!