Crystal Sync Conversion Companies

[lightfeat]

Is there really no company in the whole world other than THE FILM GROUP who will crystal sync convert my Nizo ?

Not a single company in the whole of Europe where I can avoid the Import/Export fees of sending a camera away to America?

Does anybody have any information about this please. I'm sure there are plenty of us who would appreciate your knowledge.

Many thanks

Lux

[Matt Pacini]

I don't know the answer to this.
It makes me nuts, too, because a while ago, I came across a website of a company doing this, but even better than the Film Group, in that the crystal sync units were put inside the cameras, not hanging out with some lame umbilican cord.
But I could never find it again, and I can't for the life of me remember who it was!

Matt Pacini

[MovieStuff]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by rollemfilm:
the original battery powered sync camera was a converted Auricon. these used a tuning fork to produce the 60 hz standard needed for the ac motors. can this idea, old as it is, work with super 8 cameras?</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

Sure, if you want your super 8 camera to weigh as much as an Auricon! [img]smile.gif[/img]

The Auricons only used the vibrator type invertor in the field when shooting news footage. Otherwise, they plugged into the wall for maintaining synch. Also, the motor they used was a posi-lock with a toothed belt off a VERY powerful motor. The idea was that the motor was overkill for the camera and would never drift off speed due to resistance from the camera movement. The Auricon movement was later purchased by Cinema Products and is the basis for all CP16 cameras.

I've played around with a similar type idea for movie cameras using a CD with a 60 cycle tone that is amplified and used to drive a small AC motor for just the same effect. One could probably do it with something like a Fujica single 8 camera that has an external drive shaft but regular super cameras don't really lend themselves to that type of conversion. Too many tiny springs and bolts in a too tight an area. Just ask Matt Pacini about the spring that dematerialized right before his eyes when widening his gate! [img]redface.gif[/img]

[rollemfilm]

the original battery powered sync camera was a converted Auricon. these used a tuning fork to produce the 60 hz standard needed for the ac motors. can this idea, old as it is, work with super 8 cameras?

[rollemfilm]

Frezzi also had a CP type of camera with the Auricon movements. Albert & David Maysles used a coverted Auricon for their first feature "Salesman"...a very nice looking film indeed.