70mm Highspeed cameras

[Andreas Wideroe]

Warning: Not small gauge!



How about a high-speed 70mm camera?

Thought I'd share this article from Wired:
http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/08/hu ... d-cameras/

And here's their website: http://www.hulchercamera.com/

Anyone seen these cameras on eBay?

/Andreas

[Blue Audio Visual]

We had one of their 35mm high-speed cameras in the Blue Audio Visual shop when it was still open, I suppose it must have been at least 10 years ago.

I think it was probably one of these, I can remember the back being very 'boxy' and black...

[Will2]

Love how she's holding it, like you'd take a little home movie of the kids on the beach with it.

100' of 70mm at 24fps would be about 50 seconds, but this might be more like the 6x7 medium format still images instead of 65mm motion picture film so it's probably much less.

[Nicholas Kovats]

There is one on Ebay right now as per Item number: 180936188951 at $399 US. Very charming. And they have an active web site still servicing their cameras, i.e. http://www.hulchercamera.com/.

It would occasionally rip the film while ramping up to speed. But 65mm high speed film cameras pretty well maxed out at 175 fps. For good reason.

[Will2]

With fresh 35mm Kodak 100' Eyemo rolls going for $95 I would suspect you're looking at $200 for one 100' roll of 65mm if it could be found.

[hirudin]

I checked into this (because it's awesome)... each camera is custom made, and the company has records on each one. I spoke with Betty (the lady in the photo) and this one on ebay... serial number 151, was setup for single frame only. Even if it had the sequential frames, there's no pin registration (not an issue if you're scanning), the sprockets would have to be adapted to run vision3 stocks with KS-1866 perf pitch and the 'default' frame rates in these cameras are 5, 10, 20, 35 and 50fps, so they would have to mod the camera to run 24fps.

In short, awesome camera, but a fair bit of modding would be required to make it an effective hand held 70mm camera.

EDIT: 1000ft rolls of 65mm run at $1247, so you could theoretically get 10 rolls of 100ft for $127 a pop, plus processing at $47 per roll... at 2.25x2.25 per frame, this is only 533 odd frames, so your cost would be $180 or so for 22 seconds at 24fps. I would look awesome though. If you are brave, you can pick up 2500ft rolls of 70mm edupe for really cheap, but the cost of processing makes it an expensive experiment.... and with an ISO of 6-12, you want some bright lighting.

-Jesse-