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A couple of weeks ago, I got a phone call from a client who said he had a vintage wooden tripod. He was nice enough to come visit with the tripod, and at first glance I was not sure exactly what it was. I decided to buy it anyway and try to figure out what it was.
Meanwhile, Erin was doing inventory and happened to notice the Wall camera we have currently sitti...
I sold out of the most recent batch of my custom ARRI 16 S power cables and I am hard at work on printing and assembling a new batch. They should be ready late next week.
Today we rejoice, for Twentieth Century-Fox Cine Simplex camera sn. 105 is finished! Or as complete as I can get it with the parts that I had. Despite its looks when I first examined this camera, the heart of the system was still in repairable condition. The most complicated part of this project actually turned out to be getting the screws to come free of the casting without ...
A short one today as my battle with Twentieth Century-Fox Cine Simplex camera sn. 105 rages on. The folks who designed this amazing camera went way out of their way to isolate as many things as possible from the housing of the camera to prevent noise and vibration from escaping the camera box. The components that drive the shutter, the sprocket, and the movement consist of fo...
My work on Twentieth Century-Fox Cine Simplex camera #105 continues on, this time with reinstalling the sprocket, the film keepers, the buckle trips, and starting to reinstall the movement. One of the interesting notes is how the movement is installed in this camera. There is another set of steel plates that are laminated to what looks like it might be rubber, but I couldn’t ...