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Re: RE: Eclair Cameras: RE: Light Meter Issues
Eric
In response to your last posting. I will be happy to share my techniques and repair data with you any time. As to building a light meter for the ACL. I really dont think it is necessary.
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From: eric jarvies <eric@earthid.org>
Date: Friday, July 11, 2003 0:32 am
Subject: RE: Eclair Cameras: RE: Light Meter Issues
>... Les Bosher, an ACL egineer for 40years does a super16
conversion that retains the light meter and has a mod that also
retains the original shutter angle.
> Sounds like Eric is an expert in this field after 6
months....
hello,
no, not even close to being an expert. but i do have a mind, and
i like to apply it whenever possible. and for some reason i have
taken to film cameras and seem to have a knack for them. i have
only recently disected a gsmo, which was a completely differant
machine compared the the beaulieu, and their unique shutter
assembly system. but what remains the same with all these cameras
is the fact all of the were hand made. and when you are dealing
with hand made devices like these, things tend to be fairly
straight forward and logicol for the mind/person to comprehend.
but what has dssapointed more then ANYTHING in this motion picture
camera service/repair/modification nicth industry is the LACK of
information sharing on the schematics end of of things. in other
words, when someone figures out how to do something, instead of
documenting it and SHARING it, they end up providing a product and
service for it, thus turning it into a money making venture. and
i have no problems with this. but i think it is also fair to say
if someone wants to do these things on their own, it would be nice
to be involved with a community that promotes the sharing of this
type of information. regarding my first beaulieu 4008ZM super8
camera i purchased 6 months back, i wanted to do the service
myself, and i also wanted to repaint it, modify it, and so on.
and the forums i found that had people who were experienced with
such items, offered to help ... which was to say, send me your
camera and for 'x' amount of money i will do the work. none of
these people emailed me
schematics or instructions or anthing helpful. so i just said
heck with it and went about doing it myself. well, until this
point, everyone on that particular forum was under the misguided
perception that the beaulieu camera were diffcult to work on, and
one should never take it apart unless they were an experienced
beaulieu tech, and on and on.
needless ot say, and long story longer, i took apart the camera
and documented the process by text and with photos. but instead
of taking apart to service it, it took EVERY single piece apart
and indexed them accoridngly. i posted a number of how to guides
on forums, and anyone that emails me i send them advanced
instructions on how to perform more complex tasks according to
their request ... for FREE. i have documented the gsmo part by
part, and now am doing the same for the eclair npr, and soon the
acl. so like i said, i will post a link for all of you that will
have instructons and photos and schematics, and explainations and
footnotes, so issues can be resolved yourself ... or at least give
the ablity to make an informed decision of whether of not the task
is too difficult for you, in which case you cna then send the
camera off to one of the few people that provide the geat service
i have read about here, and on other sites. consider my approach
the por mans solution, or the
remote mans solution(i live in a place that makes it too
difficult to send my items out, so a few years ago i started
fixing everything myself, and cant seem to stop now).
now regardng the meter, if you really want to have a NICE meter in
your ACL ... purchase a cine spot meter, take it apart, mount the
sensor on a prism/beamsplitter inside of the camera(again, i have
not yet taken the acl apart, so i speak in theory), and take the
handheld spot meter dioptre electronics and mount those inside of
your camera's dioptre, mount the menu controls on the side of hte
body, and bingo! a built in, modern cine spot meter through the
eyepice. these old camera are just aching to have modern devices
installed ...i took a fiber optic image conduit, attached it to
the stock beaulieu r16 light sensor prism allotment area(i removed
the sensor obviously), and then drilled a hole out the control
side, ran the fiber to the body hole, and crimp-mounted it
stationary so it would not move, then attached a fiber optic taper
with a 3.1:1 magnification, which is now ready for a 1/2" CCD to
be attached directly, after which the camera will have its own
seperate video feed
without messing with the viewfinder. if i replaced the stock
beamsplitter inside the camera, i could arrange the real estate
inside to accomodate the original light sensor, which would then
take the camera back to stock. i will do that, but i need ot buy
that particular beamsplitter ... i used what i had for the time
beign t see if it would work. and it did. so i trust there will
be plenty of fun options available for the npr and acl cameras ...
i can hardly wait.
peace and cheer!
eric
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eric martin jarvies sr
cabo san lucas, bcs mexico cp 23410
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