Alex wrote:There was a company in Texas that offered the pin registered mod, but they told me they could not do it in conjunction with the 250 frame film back mod that was also available at that time.
That was Double-M Industries. I owned a couple of their Nikon Pin registered mods. Ususally based on an older Photomic F or the like. They also pin registered Canon cameras though Nikons were the most popular due to the super duper 55mm micro Nikor close up lens. I used to have a business called FrameWork Productions back in the 80s that did high end multi-projector slide shows using upwards of 24 projectors at a time. All the graphics were produced as pin registered slides. It was a blast. There was also another company that made an automated pin registered back for the Nikon but I don't recall there being a 250 frame pin registered back. Doesn't mean it never existed but I never saw one.
aj wrote:
According to this Nikon pro magazine one Rolling Stones videoclip was shot using several F3 and F4 cameras with 250 exp backs. With a good powersupply 4 fps can be sustained and shots of 60secs are possible.
I found back the old issue of NikonPro. It was indeed the last one on the stack Spring 1996 page 8 and 9
They used F3 and F4. Shot at 4fps one camera lasted for 1 minute and a assistent was handing the cameras to the photographer. 15.000 frames were exposed and later scanned to be morphed into the video for the then latest song: Like a Rolling Stone
These F4 MF-24 250 exp backs are highly sougth after...
I've got a Yashica Samurai half-frame camera. These things are really feature packed! Only downside I see is that they're nostly automatic, and not interchangeable lenses.
But I get 75 shots per roll, it does time exposure AND timelapse AND both simultaneously, as well as shoots 6 fps.
Cranium wrote:I've got a Yashica Samurai half-frame camera. These things are really feature packed! Only downside I see is that they're nostly automatic, and not interchangeable lenses.
But I get 75 shots per roll, it does time exposure AND timelapse AND both simultaneously, as well as shoots 6 fps.
Not bad for a point and shoot.
While experimenting I loaded a 135 cartrdige with a length of 55 frames. My NIKON F801s could even work with that. I.e. the exposure counter would count along till 55 and the moter sustained it. Maybe it should while there were Ilford HP5 72 exposure cartridges a long time ago. A F100 will not go past 40.
Still, this would make 110 exposures in a half-frame type camera.
Spring 1996 page 8 and 9