I don’t even know if anyone reads these posts. Perhaps really I make them for myself, to chart progress, and refer back to later on. Well, actually here I am now reading this for reference, so yes mate, uts quite useful to yourself to write up these things. So with an light dependent resistor, micro-controller and signals into MAX I’m …

The controller has 3 settings that produce different DC voltages for the motor and produce different speeds to the spindle/shutter that results in different shutter speeds. The videos below show the 3 speeds and all these clips have the shutter set to 170 degrees. My first attempt at the linkage had the effect of a tiny amount of open shutter …

VERY great step forwards but I got the camera motor controller working and rigged it up to the camera to see how it runs and it runs smoothly, beautifully, accurately!!!. The controller has loads of speeds that turn the main spindle/crank at different speeds so that means different exposure lengths AS WELL AS the different lengths provided by the variabe …

Finally uncovered the oxberry camera motor. Its a printed armature motor that is typicaly found in industrial environments like automation, medical, oil&gas etc. They are extremely precise, very smooth, have instant torque and other exciting mechanical properties. In our application we are just spinning a mechanisim and taking one picture. But this motor will provide an exact time signature for …

Here is a  test scan to see what kind of frames I can produce on the current camera/lens set up. When I come to fully digitise this small piece of movietone (1.19:1) format Nitrate I will frame the picture area only.  

I really like Hisashi Okajim’s ‘letter to film‘ taken from the issue 89 of FIAF Journal Of Film Preservation.

Heres some video clips of the light shows James and myself were doing for MV&EE back in 2011    

These pieces of Nitrate found at the Cube Cinema are a Billy West short called ‘Blind Mans Buff’. Billy West was a Charlie Chaplin  impersonator. The title card also reads King Bee Comedies. The film is in very good condition but has shrunk too far to pass safely through my printer now. If it is to be scanned it will …