[Konvas] Photo-Sonics 10A 70mm High Speed Camera

[Nate Downes]

Yeah, mine is a 10 as well.  a 10B, to be exact.  I use it as a museum
piece only, picked it up for $10.  Painted up, it looks very nice on the
classic Mitchell tripod w/ a phoney lens on it.

Rick Garbutt wrote:
> Also BEWARE the "10" in the model number.
>
> My bet is this camera shoots a frame 10 perfs high, double the height of
> theatrical 70mm, and likely compatable with nothing else you're likely to
> own.
>
> SAFIK, these were commonly used by folks like NASA as "all-sky" cameras,
> filming things like the heavens with fisheye lenses.  As this is a high
> speed model, it's not improbable it shot things like rocket motors in
> loving, exquisite detail for engineering analysis.
>
> I enquired of a machinist friend about changing the
> pulldown/aperture/gearing to convert it to 5-perf (or, for the sake of
> argument, 8-perf, which is IWERKS) and he flatly said it would be cheaper
> and less trouble to design and build a 5-perf camera from scratch.
>
> So, even at $25, it's most likely a museum piece, and considering the
> shipping costs, not much of a bargain.  I could be wrong...
>
> Best to all,
> Rick Garbutt, soc
>
>   
>> From: Nate Downes <ndownes at tampabay.rr.com>
>> Reply-To: Konvas Discussion List <cinema at konvas.org>
>> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:03:00 -0400
>> To: Konvas Discussion List <cinema at konvas.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Konvas] Photo-Sonics 10A 70mm High Speed Camera
>>
>> I own one of these, to let you know this will *NOT* use 70mm movie film
>> as we know it.  "70mm" movie film is 65mm wide, the extra 5mm is added
>> in the printing process for th soundtrack.  To allow this camera to use
>> standard 65mm movie film is a very expensive and laboreous undertaking,
>> take it from experience.
>>
>> Adam Frey wrote:
>>     
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