Filmshooting

I had exactly your problem with my 1970 Nikon F fTN SLR. It used 1.35V mercury batteries (two of them) in the light meter. When mercury batteries went away in the late 1970s, I substituted 1.5V alkaline. For several years, all my exposures were dark. I suspected the exposure meter, but never ...

A friend was going to put his Goko A-203 Dual 8 Viewer/Editor into the dump, but gave it to me instead. (People always think of me when they go to the dump.)

Here's the problem: There is a sprocket next to the film gate which drives the "shutter." However, the sprocket is too large to fit into the ...

Roger,

As the Workprinter author, inventor, proprietor, and guru extrodinaire, I defer to you completely, and everyone should take your advice, not mine.

My only comment would be this: If one of your customers can't get the capture to work with Premiere or Dodcap, then before plunking down $$$ for ...

Roger,

As I remember, when we last talked about MotionPerfect and Steadyhand, one of the things you were interested in was using them to create "tween" frames for stop motion animation. I still haven't come up with anything better than MotionPerfect that is also in somewhat the same price range ...

A solution that I use that gets rid of gate jitter completely (in most instances) is to use Steadyhand ( http://www.dynapel.com/products/steadyhand_overview.shtml ). This is motion stabilization software designed to correct hand-held footage. If you adjust the settings to about 25% of their "Normal ...

You might want to consider using a different capture application. I have never understood the need to have RAID etc. I capture at 6 fps from Workprinter onto a relatively slow computer. In addition, I no longer need to adjust the timing cam. The secret? I use Scenalyzer Live (aka SCLive).

It's ...