sniper lens

Post by **Tom Terrific** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:28 am

Hi New and cheap but i like to tinker and have an old b/h projector that I am playing with and a few years ago I had a friend that had an cine sniper unit that had what looked like a lens from and old microscope or telescope eyepiece on it. I haven't seen it in a while but I remember that he said it worked ok and I was wondering if anyone knows what lens that was? It was a plain black lens that was inserted into a black tube in front of a camera on the sniper unit. Might be a dumb question but it would help me out if you could tell me where I could get one like it because I have a lot of time and a big box of 8mm I want to do myself.

tommy

Post by **super8man** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:03 am

try searching the forum with the words
"do it yourself telecine" or similar....long long long long threads on the subject...

Post by **James E** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:38 am

There's also this forum
http://8mmforum.film-tech.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php

This one by Giles Perkins is great:
http://homepage.mac.com/onsuper8/diytelecine/

This one is good:
http://www.siltec.co.uk/amovies/telecine/indextc.htm

If you're REALY patient and have A LOT of time:
http://truetex.com/telecine.htm

This one right here in this forum:
http://www.filmshooting.com/telecine/

Yet even more good info on film chians
http://www.owyheesound.com/telecine.html

And here's a good directory of telecine info:
http://homepage.mac.com/onsuper8/diytelecine/links.html

Cheers,