Logmar S8 camera board design specs and part sources.

[Nicholas Kovats]

Just about missed this new blog post from Tommy Madsen of Logmar camera regarding manufacturing sources and board design specs. This is getting quite interesting relative to actual "nut and bolts" processes involved in the forthcoming Logmar Super 8 camera. This impressive and initial camera design would lend itself well to larger camera transport systems. Great to see my home country contributing!

http://www.logmar.dk/facts-and-figures/

[nikonr10]

Just about missed this new blog post from Tommy Madsen of Logmar camera regarding manufacturing sources and board design specs. This is getting quite interesting relative to actual "nut and bolts" processes involved in the forthcoming Logmar Super 8 camera. This impressive and initial camera design would lend itself well to larger camera transport systems. Great to see my home country contributing!

http://www.logmar.dk/facts-and-figures/

Thank you for sharing all the detail's of this new super 8 camera '' which is not a cheap buy ? still what put me off, There is no veiwfinder .
Not one for filming of a screen , Even so I am sure for those that do /this is the new thing to have , May be I love those's old german babies to much ! with a veiwfinder , each to there own . Anyway nice christmas present Nicholas .

[JeremyC]

Nicholas,

From my background as an engineer this stuff is interesting in itself but these new advances in manufacturing electronics through to 'printing' parts demonstrates that no longer will a technology die just because the high volume, centralised capital manufacturing systems stop producing them.........weeeelllll we will have to see if that applies to film emulsion. But I hope you get my drift and the Logmar camera is an example of this, yes it took a huge effort by the father and son team to bring it to fruition with the assistance of distributed manufacturing resources, but that they did is a demonstration of this and at a level of sophistication not available 20 years ago.

Meanwhile on a completely unrelated topic I was talking with one of my engineering colleagues who is nearing retirement and he has discovered skills he deployed some 10 to 15 years ago and thought were no longer needed are now coming back into demand. My colleague used to maintain the complex machines used to make master discs for vinyl pressing and he has now discovered vinyl's revival and sees his skills as once again in demand as a part time income stream in retirement.

[slashmaster]

Nicholas,

From my background as an engineer this stuff is interesting in itself but these new advances in manufacturing electronics through to 'printing' parts demonstrates that no longer will a technology die just because the high volume, centralised capital manufacturing systems stop producing them.........weeeelllll we will have to see if that applies to film emulsion. But I hope you get my drift and the Logmar camera is an example of this, yes it took a huge effort by the father and son team to bring it to fruition with the assistance of distributed manufacturing resources, but that they did is a demonstration of this and at a level of sophistication not available 20 years ago.

Meanwhile on a completely unrelated topic I was talking with one of my engineering colleagues who is nearing retirement and he has discovered skills he deployed some 10 to 15 years ago and thought were no longer needed are now coming back into demand. My colleague used to maintain the complex machines used to make master discs for vinyl pressing and he has now discovered vinyl's revival and sees his skills as once again in demand as a part time income stream in retirement.

You've got that right! It's getting easier! You can have your own cnc machine for several hundred dollars and libraries will sometimes have a 3d printer so you don't even need to own one! If you want a certain kind of film on super 8 which exist on 35mm or bigger that isn't a problem anymore, if you can get the film you can cut it down! I still have yet to see someone actually making film from scratch but they might have a good start with some of the mylar base you can get.