[Konvas] Cinema Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7

Tue Jan 6 15:59:53 CST 2009

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>   1. Re: Fwd: [cml-pro] Super-8 & Digital Intermediate (2k RGB 10
>      bit log) research project (photones at juno.com)
>   2. Halogenuros Project... Great article IN Super8today
>      (Pierre Samuel Rioux)
>   3. Cineflex? (photones at juno.com)
>   4. I FINALLY TAKE @ POP TARTS this morning (Pierre Samuel Rioux)
>   5. Re: Cineflex? (H. W. Stone)
>   6. Re: Cineflex? (Peter Haas)
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> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:43:27 GMT
> From: "photones at juno.com" <photones at juno.com>
> Subject: Re: [Konvas] Fwd: [cml-pro] Super-8 & Digital Intermediate
>        (2k RGB 10 bit log) research project
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> Really nothing to feel bad about. I've shot quite a few doc style street
> films in NYC when sound film was available. 3min30 sec was perfect for many
> of these. I could tuck a Nizo 6080 inside my jacket. I've also been buying
> some various S8 cameras on ebay lately. About half actually worked. Some
> sellers are asking horrendous amounts for these but deals are still around.
> Watch out for Nizo if they haven't been serviced. The belts break and can be
> hard and expensive to fix,especially the shutter drive belt. Now I have to
> come up with some scratch to have my archives transferred.
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> From: "Pierre Samuel Rioux" <psrioux at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Konvas] Halogenuros Project... Great article IN Super8today
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> Super 8 Today january / February 2007 you have a great article on the
> subject by Chris Cottrill in collaboration with Daniel Henriquez-Hic
> www.super8today.com Chris also have back issue for sell.
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> BTW in the same issue you have a article of the Konvas friend Bernie
> O'Doherty and Super 16Inc. How brings world-class camera repair experience
> to super8.
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> I watch the film Halogenuros  interesting because you could changing the
> source ( super 8 ) to Didital HD to 35mm a good start... I like super 8
> maybe is i start with this format before switch to 16mm.
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> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:12:41 GMT
> From: "photones at juno.com" <photones at juno.com>
> Subject: [Konvas] Cineflex?
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> Anyone see this yet?  220255550671 Ebay Cineflex 35mm camera,mags available
> but no lenses. Looks pretty good. Are they worth it?
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> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:33:24 -0500
> From: "Pierre Samuel Rioux" <psrioux at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Konvas] I FINALLY TAKE @ POP TARTS this morning
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> Pop Tarts with a cup of th?. I made a trip in France in 2007 and 2008 and
> we
> Canadian are great customer of caf? and it's difficult to get a good caf?
> in
> France.
> So the caf? is done with machine and if you like to get a American caf?
> style they ad hot water
> in it so it's just get worse.This is with out considering the price it's
> 1.50 euro to 5 euro for a caf?.
> My advice drink win in France it's cheap i could get a boutel at 2.75 Euro
> i
> will pay over 18 $ in Canada ?
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> For the beer is not a problem i could get my Heneiken every where.Lucky for
> the th? i take no chance and bring my favourite Salada orangepico &
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> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:51:39 -0500
> From: "H. W. Stone" <colcam at aim.com>
> Subject: Re: [Konvas] Cineflex?
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> Think of it as an Arri II with a much stronger body, a reinforcement ridge
> added to the mag seat, and a high interchangeability of parts with the Arri.
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> If you put a felt light block in the mag reinforcement seat you can use
> Arri mags, or if you take the CineFlex high speed "combat reinforced" 400ft
> dual compartment mags and remove the reinforcement bar they work well on the
> Arri.
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> When I sold off the last of the Arri bodies the last two were high speed
> CineFlex.
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> And I recently found a box with some Arri mags and one high speed combat
> reinforced 400 modified for Arri 2c use.
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> The only "real" problem is the cost of any Arri parts and repairs.
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> That's the reason I wound up looking at the Konvas with hard front to PL--?
> the Arri service and repair was going sky high, and we needed to go to one
> lens system, not Arri Standard and PL.? If you intend to use it less than
> ten thousand feet per year any of the Arri/CineFlex bodies makes a good MOS
> wild camera.
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> From: photones at juno.com <photones at juno.com>
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> Subject: [Konvas] Cineflex?
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> Anyone see this yet?? 220255550671 Ebay Cineflex 35mm camera,mags available
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> From: Peter Haas <peterhaas at cruzio.com>
> Subject: Re: [Konvas] Cineflex?
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> On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:12 PM, photones at juno.com wrote:
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> > Anyone see this yet?  220255550671 Ebay Cineflex 35mm camera,mags
> > available but no lenses. Looks pretty good. Are they worth it?
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>  From the serial number, this, a very rough copy of an Arri 35, was
> manufactured in 1946.
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> Cineflex went out of business sometime thereafter, and by the
> mid-1950s, cine camera dealers, such as CECo, etcetera, were selling
> Cineflexes and Cineflex add-ons at pennies on the dollar.
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> The Cineflex made a short come-back in the early 1960s, when an
> investor bought the remaining parts and cobbled together a number of
> Cineflex 2-perf conversions.
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> Cineflex again went out of business shortly thereafter.
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> Unless one wanted the camera as a complete oddity, a Konvas would be
> a better investment.
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