Happy with adjustments on getting even spread of light for 35mm, which maybe because of its size really shows hotspots and darker spots in 1:1 printing. With 16mm you dont need the diffuser. btw you get high quality diffuser sheets with minimal ND value inside flat screens, pc monitors. Take them apart and get the diffuser out, good stuff! The …

Heres the projector/looper monitor project Ive been working on for a while now. The mount holding the sensor has been taped onto the side of the projector to test the system. In a real world scenario you would mount this more robustly by your chosen method.                             …

  Soon as I have finished some other things here in Rendlesham towers I’m going to get straight onto digitising the controls of the optical printer. To do this I’ve broken down the functions, basic electrical control functions to 4 PAIRS. This means there are 2 pairs of wires for the projector and 2 pairs for the camera. Heres the …

                  I’ve been doing a lot of coding for the arduino control of the camera Im calling OX2. I was considering porting the whole thing over to a RPi so that I could have a keyboard and screen etc to allow more functions based on prompts etc. But seeing as all I …

I’ve been playing with Matts (https://sixteenmillimeter.com) brilliant Processing sketch for optical sound wave forms using chatGPT to do all the code rewriting I cant do. An amazingly pleasurable experience which as well as leaving me elated also made me consider the ethical dimension to this?   Heres the sketch. You must move the wav file to the data folder in …

Loads of undocumented activity gallery type thing to make me feel better about what I am doing.

              Dear Walter Murch…… I have been thinking recently about the, perhaps deeper and more long term meaning of Nachleben, prompted by reading your new book and seeing the error in your calculation about how much time during an analogue film presentation you spend in darkness. You say, with justified confidence (page 29 – …

Lewis Heriz in an Artist / Film Maker / Animator whose work can be seen here https://lewisheriz.com/