Wish I'd seen this earlier! The mystery tube is a lens hood - with the prism system, lens flares from crosslight are much worse than just an annoying stray but of light. The A/E switch is for Acetate/Estar. With Estar (polyester) film you could accelerate the motor up to speed much quicker without risking shattering the film. Acetate position used a gentler acceleration profile. The mechanism is set up for .3000" between perfs on double-perf film. This was a specialty film back in the day, then became special-order only (had to buy a lot of rolls at once) and now I believe it is not offered by Kodak any more at all. (Standard double perf 16mm film is .2994" between perfs and yes that difference matters!) See my channel for some film shot with one of these, including some behind-thescenes footage of one in action.
@Techno-Universal4 жыл бұрын
Apparently they used cameras similar to that between the 1940s and 60s for filming nuclear explosive tests however the military was still massively relying on those cameras throughout their history for testing experimental weapons! Also that black tube there is most likely a film storage canister that’s missing it’s caps! :)
@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
They did indeed, both rotating prism and the faster rotating mirror (streak camera) were used in the nuclear tests.
@Techno-Universal4 жыл бұрын
DextersTechLab Yup and those cameras were pretty much the peak of technology in the field back then however they still use rotating mirror high speed digital cameras today for following high speed moving objects like missiles and projectiles shot out of guns for example! Though of course the mirror is in front of the lens in those newer cameras and moves to change the direction of the view! :)
@mikeselectricstuff7 жыл бұрын
16mm full frame is about 0.3" high, so 400 feet = 16,000 frames. 1.6 secs at full speed! I suspect they rarely used full speed...
@DextersTechLab7 жыл бұрын
it's a crazy speed, i need to see if it runs!
@DoRC7 жыл бұрын
mikeselectricstuff ah. you beat me to it.
@DoRC7 жыл бұрын
that motor is beautiful!
@tesla5007 жыл бұрын
Those sprockets spin frighteningly fast. At 10kfps (full frame), the sprockets (and that glass prism) would spin at 10k / 8 perf = 1250 rotations per second (!), or 75,000RPM! The small guide rollers would probably break 100k RPM. I imagine chewing up the film was quite common.
@DextersTechLab7 жыл бұрын
man, yea that is fast! Must have made quite a racket too with the motor, bearings and cogs spinning that quick
@MaxKoschuh7 жыл бұрын
great video !! the hack at 18:45 is very weird. It's wire harness is more beautiful than the original ratsnest. Not done by the factory, I guess. Again, thank you very much for your support on Patreon. I would love to support you too. And I will definitely do so, once I am able to.
@DextersTechLab7 жыл бұрын
thanks Max, we might know more about that ad-on board when i come to power it up
@BabscoSales2 жыл бұрын
Hello I have two of these do they have any value in todays digital world. Thank you
@DextersTechLab2 жыл бұрын
Probably just a display or collectable piece today. A curiosity of the past... I had to give mine away.
@BabscoSales2 жыл бұрын
@@DextersTechLab thank you
@whitcwa7 жыл бұрын
That's great! As I recall, they used a very long leader to let the film and prism up to speed before the unexposed film hit the gate. The fastest camera I worked on was a 400FPS, but it had a standard intermittent mechanism. Did you ever figure out what the spring noise was?
@DextersTechLab7 жыл бұрын
no i didn't find the source of the twang noise, the bolt is just a blank, it might just been catching the edge of the motor casing
@ah-ray7 жыл бұрын
Chris W could you tell me what camera that was?
@whitcwa7 жыл бұрын
+Remco Ardui I believe it was a Millikan. It was chewing up the film. The claw had a buildup of plastic on the tips. All I had to do was scrape it off!
@DoRC7 жыл бұрын
so at 10k fps the camera would run through the 400 ft capacity in 1.6 seconds. The film would be moving at 170mph....crazy
@gavincurtis7 жыл бұрын
Photonic systems? Not complete (popped) without the induction part.
@DextersTechLab7 жыл бұрын
wonder how fast photonicinduction could make the film run
@3D_Printing7 жыл бұрын
11:15 Take care at that speed the film end or a snap could rip an eye out, remember blank not real film as speed pick up slow down beginning and end
@3D_Printing7 жыл бұрын
Odd : speed of film moving through the Gate will move faster as the film goes onto the take up spool due to diameter of the film on that spool
@DextersTechLab7 жыл бұрын
there is the optical encoder on the prism assembly to provide feedback of the film speed, i would expect it to servo the motor as the take up reel fills up
@3D_Printing7 жыл бұрын
Unsure if this is any help User type manuals, etc www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a375524.pdf www.wikiwand.com/en/High-speed_photography
@ah-ray7 жыл бұрын
Very cool! I subbed, btw I'm probably getting a wollensak fastax-tion because it's a lot cheaper on eBay :)
@whitcwa7 жыл бұрын
If the motor speed was not servo controlled, the frame rate would change as the diameter of film on the takeup reel increased. They had internal and external timing light flashes for speed analysis.
@DextersTechLab7 жыл бұрын
I didn't cover any of the motor speed control in the video but the optical encoder on the prism must provide feedback to servo the motor, maybe with PWM to that solid state relay?
@pizzablender7 жыл бұрын
That 'out of film sensor' is probably the imprinter that can put timing marks on the film. This is also mentioned on the control panel. Still wondering how the speed would be controlled. Perhaps power it up and check the motor speed - would the motor speed vary, or is there some device braking the film?
@phreapersoonlijk7 жыл бұрын
That dev board seems like a bit of an odd addition.