From: miriam jayne martins sampaio (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Mar 01 2010 - 01:50:04 PST
hey
is anyone on the list from portugal other than me? it would be great if someone here knew how to build a printer!!
miriam
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:09:32 -0500
From: email suppressed
Subject: Re: homemade printers (was: Frameworker in the news)
To: email suppressed
Chiming in on the extension tubes. I put together a ridiculous and gloriously sloppy homemade printer some years ago. Shot some film, had it processed, cut it down into about 10 foot lengths, rubbed them down with a little bit of vinegar, placed them in jars with various materials and elements, let 'em sit for about a month, unearthed the film, let it dry. This resulted in some pretty crusty film, so couldn't go the machine route. Picked up a plane of milk plate glass, then attached it to a wood frame; add some clamp lights, nails for registration, and then gaff tape the aperture. Wham bam, a printer when you place a Bolex w/extension tubes in front of it. Now, I made myself temporarily blind in the process, and obviously had to allow for the image to move in and out of focus (given the shrinkage/curliness/gunk of celluloid post burial), but no matter!
Jason LivingstonIthaca, NY
> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:47:39 -0800
> From: email suppressed
> Subject: Re: homemade printers (was: Frameworker in the news)
> To: email suppressed
>
> Hi frameworkers,
>
> In regard to your homemade printer conversation, I have made my
> own optical printer by aligning an 16mm analyzing projecter that is
> capable of single frame advancement with a bolex rex-5 mounted to an
> old bolex titler. I used a BPM bellow and appropriate adapters with a
> 50mm El-Nikkor lens (this is a flat field enlarger lens, good for
> photographing flat objects) and extension tubes. I am using an old jk
> intervalometer for the camera advancement, but I have also used a
> k-206 single frame advance motor with it. Basically I put this all
> together with parts I purchased off ebay and very little fabrication
> of my own. I would estimate I spent about $1,000 for the whole set-up
> including the bolex. I have also used an old Dukane 35mm film strip
> viewer to replace the 16mm projector to do reductions from 35mm to
> 16mm, but I have to use small strips of film because the film advance
> on the dukane is not strong enough to pull film from a reel. I hope
> this helps.
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan Capone
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Mark Toscano <email suppressed> wrote:
> > Hi Julie,
> >
> > Yep, Standish's printer is pretty wonderful. I wish Robert Nelson had saved the modified camera printer he had in the late 1960s. Bob had a friend machine a slit into the lens turret of an old camera he had, so he could then pass existing footage through it, look through the viewfinder, and rephotograph whatever he stuck in there. I guess an optical printer of sorts. He made the final car-rolling-down-the-hill in Hot Leatherette, and all of Penny Bright & Jimmy Witherspoon with this camera. Maybe a few shots in Blondino too, like the rephotographed silent film of the octopus pulling the guy into the water, but not positive about that.
> >
> > Speaking of Nelson, he also told me that he did his optical printing for Grateful Dead (1967) on Loren Sears' homemade optical printer. Loren apparently had the first (artist-owned) optical printer in SF, basically homemade mounted on a 2x4.
> >
> > --- On Sat, 2/20/10, julie murray <email suppressed> wrote:
> >
> >> From: julie murray <email suppressed>
> >> Subject: Re: [FRAMEWORKS] Frameworker in the news
> >> To: email suppressed
> >> Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010, 2:22 PM
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Mark,
> >> I'd personally love to see other
> >> people's versions of home made printers. I loved
> >> Standish Lawders! Thanks for putting it up.
> >> I uploaded two images of the one I built way some years
> >> back and they can be seen here:
> >> http://julifilm.blogspot.com/
> >>
> >> Julie
> >>
> >> > On Feb 18, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Mark Toscano wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > A good reminder that I've been awful about
> >> keeping that blog active.
> >> > >
> >> > > To Jonathan for promoting Bordwell's blogging
> >> of my visit: thtppppp.
> >> > >
> >> > > But I guess I'll use this opportunity to ask
> >> if there's any topic/
> >> > > film/filmmaker I might work with that anyone here
> >> would be curious
> >> > > for me to, uh, blog on on my, uh, blog.
> >> > >
> >> > > I promise I'll eventually get to JJ
> >> Murphy's Print Generation. My
> >> > > thoughts for it involve something kind of
> >> elaborate (and I bet many
> >> > > of you can guess what I'm thinking), so I
> >> might have to do some
> >> > > other entries in the meantime.
> >> > >
> >> > > Mark T
> >> > >
> >>
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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