[Konvas] Crystal motor--found prob

[Brandon Esten]

Ok, cool heads prevail. It was a cable that went bad!!! Wow. Who woulda thunk it?

Still, don't side load your 1m mags unless you dont care about sync.

B 

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On Mar 22, 2009, at 14:18, Peter Haas <peterhaas at cruzio.com> wrote:


On Mar 22, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Brandon Esten wrote:

Holy moly, PLEASE tell me these motors are not burned out.

I know I used a 13v supply, but I was under the impression that was ok, esp because the power supply came with one of the Konvas cameras I bought.


Probably the "series pass" transistor has failed.

Or a fuse has opened.



Speaking of which, I just read a paper from a student of mine. He did a report on the 1931 German film: "Die Dreigroschenoper" or "The Threepenny Opera" - which is based off a play. I shot a commercial for the play version a few years ago and really enjoyed watching the play.

I haven't seen the film yet, but apparently it's pretty good also. The student also pointed out that it has that weird, pre-academy, 1.19:1 aspect ratio. Btw: It's in German with subtitles.

The early incarnations of sound-on-film (Fox Case, etcetera) simply added the 100 mil sound track on the non-registering side, thereby reducing the width to under 1.33:1.

When the Academy redesigned the aperture, it was made 1.37:1, not 1.33:1, possibly in an attempt to better hide negative assembly splices, which, of course, were fully showing with Silent/Full 1.33:1 (and would also be with the earliest incarnations of CinemaScope).

16mm would also be made as 1.37:1, although most projector apertures are 1.33:1.



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