Cool 16mm viewer!

Post by **MovieStuff** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:39 am

What Cosmonauts would use to watch 16mm film in space, I guess:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Post by **pinata2000** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:46 am

wow is that ever cool, if I had the money I would bid on it .

Post by **T-Scan** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:07 am

weird, I just came by that a few minutes ago. looking for a 16mm viewer with a decent size screen. that one is a little much, but the rest always seem to have tiny screens.

Post by **ccortez** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:56 pm

That thing is very cool. Certainly not $1k+ cool, but I might pay the $375 starting price...

T-scan, you should keep your eyes open for a Minette 16mm viewer. I have one and love it. The screen isn't huge, but it's bright enough and it's bigger than most that I have seen.

Post by **mojotrancer** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:15 pm

I have no use for this. I don't get to shoot much 16mm. But I want it anyway. It's just too darn cool.

Post by **Angus** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:31 am

At 160lbs I don't think they'd have taken it into space....but it is very cool nonetheless!

Post by **jaxshooter** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:15 pm

I use to work with the RTI version of that machine.The one I worked with had a digital speech processor that enabled you to view film at 2.5 times normal speed and have the pitch remain the same.You could view a two hour movie in 45 minutes.It also inspected the print and stopped down when it hit a bad splice,damaged perfs or defects in the sound track.

Pretty cool for 1980 technology.One of the most boring dead end jobs I ever worked,TV station film editor,suprised I lasted the 10 months I worked it.

Post by **DriveIn** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:43 pm

I think this one took a mid-auction price hike. Wasn't this $900+ or something. Now the Starting bid is $2650. :? 8O

Post by **Evan Kubota** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:21 am

"The one I worked with had a digital speech processor that enabled you to view film at 2.5 times normal speed and have the pitch remain the same."

Factoid: In Japan, a standard feature on many VCRs was a 1.5x mode that (IIRC) kept the pitch the same. This was so movies would not take as long to watch - back in the late '80s and early '90s, when Japanese were busy...

Post by **jean** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:16 pm

HA! I take advantage of this thread to ask a question I'm having since I first saw such devices:

WHAT are those gazillion of wheels good for that make the film take such a funny zig-zag way from spool to spool? It looks absolutely cool, but whats the purpose? Anyone clue me in, or has a good link?

Since I don't even know what it's called I cant even search wikepedia for it..

Post by **Uppsala BildTeknik** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:21 pm

Well I guess some of it might be filmtension sensors?
At least they are on the Flashscan8, if the film gets too tight or too loose the scanner stops. A nice safety feature.

On both sides of the "scanning-head" so to speak. Gives a few extra zig-zags.