Standard 8mm Bolex Paillard 18-5 Projector
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- After fitting new drive belts to this Bolex projector from 1963, it was again back up and running. Adding to that I thought I would run some film through it from the 1960s. Also stressing with this video, not to throw out your old home movies, a short example here donated along with many others to a photographic society over the years, sadly with no history as to who or why the film landed up there in the first place. Its from 1965 and shows that even after 54 years since the film was first taken on Kodachrome film, it still holds its color really well...hopefully one day it will return to its rightful owners. I have added one other home movie that was released by Walton films at the end to finish with.
Love the sound of the Bolex 18-5! Takes me back!
I have a Bolex super 8mm projector. Gotta be the quietest running projector in the world
What did you use to film the screen? I'm trying to digitize a few movies I took a while back.
Just used the video camera facing the screen. If I remember right I managed to get rid of any strobing by adjusting the projector speed to sync it to the projector just with the lamp on, no film at that point. I used the manual camera setting, eg white balance, focus etc to get the best I could. There are better ways to do transfers, but this is all I could come up with. It was a matter of experimentation.
@@grahamritchie7508 May I ask how you adjusted the speed of the projector away from the standard 18 frames per second to remove the flicker (which would require a speed of 16 2/3 frames per second in the UK to match the 50 fps video rate)? Did you feed the projector from a lamp dimmer, and is the motor of a type that slows down smoothly as you reduce the power fed to it?
@@grahamfowlie1037 I must first apologize I must have been thinking of my Bolex M8 when I replied to you. You are absolutely right the 18/5 is a fixed speed projector at 18fps except for the 5fps for slow motion. After reading your reply I wondered, how did I do it, so I got the 18/5 running with no film in it today, just a white light lamp on. Switched my little Panasonic HC-V180 camera on. Went to manual setting and set it on its lowest shutter 1/25. The flicker was still there but no where as bad as eg 1/50 or more. I was scratching my head, as it was still not good enough, how did I do it? Well I opened the Iris in the camera to 3db..."bingo" I thought. I can't see any strobing on the camera LCD viewfinder facing the screen, nice and white. That is how I must have done it a couple of years ago, even though I did not run any film through it today , looking at the viewfinder and not seeing any visible evidence of strobing, I am sure film transfer from the screen would be fine. Anyway sorry for that last reply.
@@grahamritchie7508 Thank you for your reply: it's kind of you to check this so carefully, and helpful to know that you adjusted the camera rather than the projector. I'm still mystified, though, as there doesn't seem to be anything in your camera settings that fits with 18 frames per second, or the shutter rate of 54Hz, yet your footage is completely flicker free!