{"id":4058,"date":"2024-12-05T12:54:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T12:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2024-12-17T11:13:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T11:13:21","slug":"4058","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/4058\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolex optical axis offset from mounting holes question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My question is this: RE Bolex RX H16<\/p>\n<p>If you want to mount your camera on a tripod or other device and you want it to pan around the optical axis you will find that the mounting holes on the flat base are NOT on this axis.<\/p>\n<p>This may not be anykind of issue for people but for me its a disaster. So what is the measurement from the &#8216;line&#8217; that the 3\/8 and 1\/4 holes makes (RED LINE) to the optical axis (GREEN LINE)? Does anyone know? Yes, just measure it you say. Well, where are you measuring to, by sight, to the middle of a marked safety cap maybe, to the centre of a marked safety filter maybe, etc. Surely this information is known by Bolex?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ll measure it for myself and publish it here&#8230;. 17.7mm.<br \/>\n107mm, height of Op&#8217; axis above flat base<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4059\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-06-26-at-8.03.59-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-06-26-at-8.03.59-AM.png 728w, https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-06-26-at-8.03.59-AM-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-06-26-at-8.03.59-AM-125x74.png 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"gWKayRjNbX\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hugh360.co.uk\/measurement\/finding-the-nodal-point-of-a-lens\/\">Finding the Nodal Point of a Lens<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cFinding the Nodal Point of a Lens\u201d \u2014 Hugh&amp;apos;s Pages\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hugh360.co.uk\/measurement\/finding-the-nodal-point-of-a-lens\/embed\/#?secret=gw08mdtO69#?secret=gWKayRjNbX\" data-secret=\"gWKayRjNbX\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My question is this: RE Bolex RX H16 If you want to mount your camera on a tripod or other device and you want it to pan around the optical axis you will find that the mounting holes on the flat base are NOT on this axis. This may not be anykind of issue for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lab-activity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4068,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions\/4068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}