Filmshooting

Is there a number inside the camera as well? Sometimes the door can be switched on cameras. The number though, according to Andrew Alden's book "The Bolex Bible", places this camera's manufacture about 1948.

Haven't had the chance to try them out yet. I just got a CP-16R and will be ordering film to test it as well as the cameras you sold me. I'm a big fan of the Bolex having three 16mm models and four regular 8s. If you can find the serial number of the camera inside the film chamber I might be able to...

These are like the time lapse cameras I bought. One was painted white. The other was a Kodak Model E with a motor added. The Bolex one is an early model because of the top focusing viewfinder and the round bottom. Usually these require double perf film. Later models would be reflex and have a flat b...

Wait a minute, 16mm wide but with Super 8 perfs?

For stop motion animation, yes. You should see the three other Quickset Hercules tripods I also have. All metal and heavy. And I got them all from eBay at prices ranging from $200 to $400. That gear head only cost me $100. Don't know why but Quicksets are a good value on eBay. Though they do break t...

Okay, I had to drag the heavy camera setup from the room I had my stop motion studio because I didn't have room to take pictures. I used a handtruck to move it to my kitchen so here is my Bolex Rex camera on a Quickset Hercules pedestal with gearhead. The animation drive was changed recently from a ...

I do like seeing pictures of cameramen in action. Sometimes I even wonder about the cameras they're using. Especially older pictures from the silent age. You wonder is that a B&H 2709 they're using or an early Mitchell?

I kinda meant setups like in action...not sexy camera photos...but that is a sexy camera (both the 16 and the 8!). Anywho, just thought it would becool to see people ON LOCATION with their cams. I know what you mean. When I was considering a Kinor I wanted to see a picture of one being held. There ...

Here's my recent acquisition. a CP-16R.

I tried the sepia film from Eso-S during my regular 8mm days. The sepia tinted film came out looking nice. I also bought GAF color film from them but it came out terrible. Most of the time I purchased Kodachrome locally so I rarely had a need to buy film by mail order. I did buy my first 8mm camera ...

The other source is Jim Peters who sells on eBay. He also sends a small catalogue to his buyers where he lists color and black & white stocks double perfed. I last purchased Plus-X and VNF from him. I think he will be stocking 100D in double perf. He offers other services such as film transfers ...

I'll be testing these cameras first with Plus-X. I can still get double perf color and B&W reversal from at least two online film sellers. I don't know how long double perf will continue to be available in 100' rolls. I still have my Bolex Rex with the K-206 motor to shoot with single perf if ne...

I just purchased these two 16mm cameras from an eBay dealer who states they came from Langmuir Labs (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro NM) and were used for "time-lapse photographic sequences of cloud and thunderstorm formation". They each have a Slo-Syn motor drive wi...

It's from the days of flammable nitrate film prints. If the film caught fire the projection mechanism and reels are encased so the fire can be contained. Also projection booths had a shutter that dropped over the projection port to keep the fire from spreading to the theater. Platters came in when s...

Before computers motion blur in stop motion animation was done by moving the puppet slightly while the shutter was open (Go-Motion?) or by putting a pane of glass between the camera and the puppet and using vaseline smeared with a brush on the glass to blur the edge of the moving parts. The glass wo...