Japanese 8mm site with camera repairs/mod tips

[BK]

Thought I share this:

http://www.nakanocam.com/index.html

Click on the 8 camera on the left, then you'll see the repair modifications page on your right with fixes/mods for various cameras.

Use Babelfish to do a translation from Japanese to English...you'll get the idea.

Enjoy

Bill

[aj]

Nakano-san is not shy of opening a camera

Nice grip-mod on the Nikon R8, did he change the lens too or is just the tubecover colored to silver? I suppose if you take out the rear lens part one could mount something completely different. But then the new lens should have enough back-focus room to allow for the shutter-disc. And will there still be a viewfinder image?

[BK]

Nice grip-mod on the Nikon R8, did he change the lens too or is just the tubecover colored to silver?

If I intrepret it correctly, he took the zoom portion of the lens off the R8 and put a wide angle converter ( from a video camera? ) on it.

Now I know why those manual aperture don't work on the Canons or Fujicas. Always thought it was ageing of the electronics.

Bill

[aj]

Nice grip-mod on the Nikon R8, did he change the lens too or is just the tubecover colored to silver?

If I intrepret it correctly, he took the zoom portion of the lens off the R8 and put a wide angle converter ( from a video camera? ) on it.

Now I know why those manual aperture don't work on the Canons or Fujicas. Always thought it was ageing of the electronics.

Bill

OK,

You found this on the Canons and Fujicas on some other page?

The zc1000 shown didn't have an aging problem but more seems the victim of a fall.

I also noted the ZC1000 indeed (as I earlier thought) can control lenses with auto-aperture control. But apparently there are no known lenses from the original time of production.
Should be a c-mount with a contact-pad to couple with the gold-ring and some bump on its tube to house the activator motor. The screw-thread is then the other contact. Already checked on the voltages.

This was something mr Benedetti should have spoken about with the designer of the zc1000 instead of these silly adept questions.

[Takahiro Nakano]

Thank you for looking at my site.
I am sorry, but write it in Japanese.

Mod.R8 takes off a lens before the first and attaches a wide converter(x0.42).
I can focus(0cm~Inf.) it by making a zoom ring the macro-position.
But it is only a Semi-Fisheye.

I love movie cameras.
I want to repair slightly many cameras.
Though it is difficult, I enjoy it!

Yours sincerely,

Takahiro Nakano
http://www.nakanocam.com

[VideoFred]

Hello Takahiro,

Very well done man!

Can I ask you some advice about a Canon 814 XLS?

Fred.

[MIKI-814]

Thank you for looking at my site.
I am sorry, but write it in Japanese.

Congratulations for your site" It's been very useful to me as I own a 814E. Thanks a lot.

[BK]

You found this on the Canons and Fujicas on some other page?

I was refering to the fix on the faulty manual light meter switch on the Canon 814E and Fujica Z800 on the same page. Not on the ZC1000

I love movie cameras.
I want to repair slightly many cameras.

We all love movie cameras.
Thanks Takahiro, share more of your fixes and ideas on your page. Would be great to see some of your movie clips on your site

Bill

[Juno]

This was something mr Benedetti should have spoken about with the designer of the zc1000 instead of these silly adept questions.

Who is Mr. Benedetti?

[Juno]

One weakness of the ZC1000 that I have noticed, and I could be wrong about this, is that it appears to lack an "instant slow motion". By the photos it looks like the speed has to be dialed in as opposed to going directly from 24 fps to 36 or 72.

[BK]

Who is Mr. Benedetti?

I remember he was the guy who snapped up every ZC1000 on ebay.

One weakness of the ZC1000 that I have noticed, and I could be wrong about this, is that it appears to lack an "instant slow motion". By the photos it looks like the speed has to be dialed in as opposed to going directly from 24 fps to 36 or 72.

Dunno whether it's a fault or not, you can't have everything as they say.

Bill

[Juno]

I remember he was the guy who snapped up every ZC1000 on ebay.

It's nice to have money huh?

Dunno whether it's a fault or not, you can't have everything as they say.

Bill

Well, the camera has just about everything else. The least they could have done is design it for instant slow motion for nature shoots. Even many super 8 cameras of lesser caliber have this feature.

[MIKI-814]

This was something mr Benedetti should have spoken about with the designer of the zc1000 instead of these silly adept questions.

I think it would have been more than silly to ask such technical details. That interview was intended to have a wide overlook on the concept of the ZC1000 and it's design 35 years ago. :roll:

[aj]

It would certainly be interesting to ask what that gold ring around the c-mount is for. Then, if the designer tells it was for control of auto-aperture lenses it would be very interesting to hear if there were suitable lenses designed. In the lab or even available or compatible with TV-cam lenses of the time.

[Takahiro Nakano]

Hello, all of you.

I was surprised that an overseas person was interested in "ZC1000".
ZC1000 is only "C-mount" with a single-8 camera.
The lens of this camera is very good.

Mr. Fred,
About 814XL-S, what kind of thing do you want to know?
I do not have 814XL-S, but 1014XL-S lasts.
I repair 1014XL-S of the friend now.
Can there be something that I can help it?

Takahiro Nakano
http://www.nakanocam.com