Duncan Brown

Haha yeah good point, the ultrawides don't play well with others on a turret. Hope you have two port caps for the other holes 🙂 Duncan

eBay and lots of patience are your friend. I MAY have a cord that would fit that - I bought it as a 16S cord and it turns out the IIA pins are much bigger. I'll try to look this weekend. Duncan

There's your power connector. If it's like the 16S, the pins are different sizes. That other connector just looks like a run of the mill BNC connector, usually for carrying signals of some sort, not power. Duncan

And now an Arri-B Angie 5.9 shows up on ebay too - they're everywhere all of a sudden! https://www.ebay.com/itm/236198604963 Duncan

We'll expect pictures here of the finished product! Duncan

But where would it even plug in? Did that era motor even have an external speed control input? Duncan

If you're talking to him, figure out what that second TS mount is (the one on the camera looks to be Arri-S) And is that some sort of fps controller for the motor? That's a new one on me. Duncan

I always make my packs up out of D-sized cells. The couple of battery belts I've rebuilt (taking out the old dead NiCd batteries and replacing them with NiMh) have also used D-sized cells. Especially for running both the camera motor and the magazine motor at the same time, I think AAs just aren't enough. Duncan

OK, crow-eating time. On my latest camera, which I haven't actually shot any film in yet, it will run just fine with no film in it but if you tap the buckle switch, like I guess the end of a roll of film would, it does indeed shut it off, unlike my previous cameras. Resets by opening the sprockets (like you naturally do when loading a new roll of film) Learn something new every day... Duncan

Wow, I've had 4 16ST bodies (long story) and that is not what happened on any of them. They'd merrily run forever, film or no film. I guess that must be a feature that is not-working a lot! Interesting. Duncan

As far as I know, the buckle switch is only there to kill the camera if there's a jam (film gets too tight, loses loop, etc) There's not supposed to be anything that automatically kills the camera when the film runs out. You just have to keep an eye on that via the film footage/frame counters and the sound and the turning, or stopping of turning, of the feed spool knob. Duncan

There's an Arri-B mount 5.7 Kinoptik on ebay right now, so there's proof that those exist too. Duncan

(Zombie thread, but I just noticed it) The variable resistor built into the rotating cap of that motor can get very flaky after all these years. If you take it apart, clean up the windings and the contact point, ever so slightly shift the contact so it's running on a slightly different path, and manage to get it all back together again without breaking anything, it will probably work a lot better. I'd smear a thin film of contact grease on there too. Duncan

Hey, lookie there, they do have one in Arri-B So now I have seen one that way! The Zeiss 8mm is a very very sharp lens, no problems there at all, but as you note, it's only "wide" not "crazy wide" (and I do love me some crazy-wide lenses, as you might have figured out.) Duncan

I only have experience with these folks for fitting still-camera large format lenses to large format shutters, but they would appear to be up for just about any lens-related machining you could throw at them. Of course, you pay dearly for their experience and attention to detail. https://skgrimes.com/ Duncan