From: Jennifer Saparzadeh (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Jun 23 2010 - 10:15:54 PDT
Hello mo,
This is definitely not too much information and is very helpful. I actually
found the photographs on ebay-- someone is selling this same exact camera for
500 hundred dollars! I am not trying to sell this though, I just want to use
it.
(I wonder why they are selling it for so much..)
The big questions at this point:
1. is it a double pull down claw?
- You came to the conclusion that it is not a double pull down claw, which
after looking through and running film through the camera I think is true.
2. can you see how the sprocket wheels can be removed, and then re-
installed.
-I don't think that the camera allows one to remove the set of sprockets so it
would have to be done by force.
Have you ever used a double sprocket camera without removing the extra
sprockets? If so, was the image effected very much by the irritation of the
extra sprockets?
I am located in New York at the moment but I am from Los Angeles and go to
school in Amherst, MA. Well I've got to say-- thank you very much for all of
your help so far, I really appreciate it.
Jennie
Quoting Myron Ort <email suppressed>:
> Hi Jennifer,
> What an interesting vintage camera. Thanks for the nice pictures of it.
> Did it come with just the one lens?
>
> I do notice that it will require double sprocket 16mm film.
>
> This format film stock has become less common these days since most
> cameras are single sprocket.
> It is possible to modify the sprockets in your camera so it can take
> the more available single perf stock,
> as long as the claw in your camera is a single pull down claw. If the
> the camera has a double pull down claw I am not sure how easy it will
> be to modify.
>
> I have filed down sprockets on older Bell & Howell double sprocket
> cameras to modify for use with single sprocket film. I was able to
> do this with cameras from circa 1940s.
> Some even older Bell & Howell cameras (ca '30s and '20s) not only
> have double sprockets but also a double pull down claw in which case
> it is beyond my abilities or willingness to modify.
>
> Look behind the pressure plate as you run the camera to see if there
> is a single claw or a double claw pull down. If it is single, you
> might consider the possibility of modifying one of the sprocket rows
> on the two sprocket wheels.
>
> Another approach would be to track down sources of double sprocket
> 16mm film stock. Last time I checked, it was not so easy to find
> anymore.
> One source is "double 8mm" which is made available. Double 8mm is
> 16mm double sprocket film with an extra set of sprocket holes in
> between each frame, so to speak.
> You and your camera would simply learn to ignore the extra sprocket
> holes. This could become tricky if you were to rethread the film to
> send through the camera again for multiple exposure,
> a process which would be better done by winding back while film is
> still in the camera.
>
> In the old B&H cameras the sprocket wheels are easily removed so
> grinding off the row of "extra" sprockets was a simple matter.
> Check to see how the sprocket wheels might be removable. Then it will
> be a matter of knowing which is the correct row of sprockets to grind
> off, something obvious if you have some single perf stock in hand.
> If you are not mechanically inclined you could get a technician to help.
>
> Hope this does not seem like too much info.
>
> It looks like a nice camera with a great lens.
>
> Where are you located?
>
> Myron Ort
> Northern California, USA
>
>
> On Jun 22, 2010, at 6:34 PM, Jennifer Saparzadeh wrote:
>
> > Hello Steven,
> > It is an old (from late 1920's or 30's) Movikon Zeiss Ikon. I
> > have attached
> > a photograph if it gives more information about how it should be
> > cleaned
> > specifically. I don't know what it means for something to be quick
> > release, so
> > I don't know if this is or not.
> >
> > Jennie
> >
> > Quoting Steven Gladstone <email suppressed>:
> >
> >> Jennifer Saparzadeh wrote:
> >>> Hello frameworks,
> >>> To clean the inside of a 16 mm camera (the part where the
> >>> film goes)
> >> what
> >>> should be used? Alcohol? water? I have no idea- any suggestions
> >>> would help.
> >>
> >> DO NOT USE compressed air IN THE GATE AREA.
> >>
> >> From either side, ever, ever, never.
> >>
> >> What kind of camera (Arri 16s, m, Scoopic? ) or a quick release
> >> such
> >> as Aaton, Arri SR, Eclair?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Steven Gladstone
> >> New York Based Cinematographer
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> >> http://www.gladstonefilms.com
> >> 917-886-5858
> >
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