I recently rescued this jewel from the alluminum scrap heap at my favorite electronic recycler. Litterally saved it from the smelter. He wanted 50.00 (usd) but I talked him down to 30.00. :-0. Its a 35mm film recorder. I added the Bell and Howell magazine and machined a new mounting plate for it. Now all I have to do is build a controller and find a good deal on a flat screen display that will do 2K.
It’s a Forox. Made by a bunch of former Oxberry employees. (hence the name for-merlly Oxberry) But is virtually the identiical movement as the Celco "Fury " film recorder. check them out if you have a cool 250,000 (usd) http://www.celco.com
Daniel
That’s pretty nice. How many FPS can it do? Are you actually planning on recording an animation to it to play through a projector? And most importantly, can it be used underwater?
It was used originally as a film recorder to make 35mm slides, (8 perf) but can be cofigured to do half frame ( 4 perf ) for cine use. Since it’s an animation camera fps is sort of irrelevant but on Kodaks new transfer stock It should do 1 frame per sec. With roughy a .75 sec exposure. I was at Siggraph and saw the Celco film recorder and was amazed to find that they are just using a standard lcd display that can do 2K or 1920 x 1080 (hd5245) resolution. In addition they were also making a tripple exposure using color seperation filters. (YMC) I don’t plan on doing Color Correction. And yes I am going to put it online. Alas I did not get the control unit, but I’ve figured out a good hack with an industrial stepper drive that I recently aquired. I Still have to wire it up and spend some $$ on a display, so it will probably be a few months. The cool blender logo is after market and no it will not work underwater :-/
Daneil
Hi pannomatte,
This is very, very odd that you so happen to post this
picture of that thing (now i now it`s a" film recorder").
the reason i say that is that i work at a collage and i had
to spend sometime in the basement of one of the older building
today,
and there laying on the floor is this same contraption, with a
“remove me” sign on it.
it was still there when i left, ( looks like its been there for years) and if you can show me what a "controller looks like, id be glad
to see if could try and get it for ya.
daleYou wouldn’t kid an old man like me now would you? I’ve uploaded some close ups of the unit here: http://home.swbell.net/pannomat/forcmp01.jpg The bottom pic is the connector coming off the camera. Its a DB37 (37 pin) Male connector, but I believe they were not very standardized in their cable implementation. Regardless if it’s a Forox, Oxberry, or evan a Merron Carrol controller I can make it work. They all stole each others tecnology and it’s all pretty much the same. I also included a shot of the transport mechanism in and out of the unit to illustrate how the film gate is removed. The apperture plate shown is an 8 perf, and I’m looking for (So I don’t have to make) a 4 perf aperture plate. On the right of the plate you can see the registration pins. I would be very interested in aquiring the whole unit if possible. What sort of loud sucking noise do I have to make to appese the powers that be in possesion of aforementioned unit. Blender needs to go to the movies. I think a great candidate would be Shiges (sp) Horus project. I bet he would go for it if we asked him. Would that be cool or what.
Daniel
