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Does anyone have any clue as to what is in the Vinten fluid for the thin-film heads. Much of the magic brew had undertaken an escape and evasion exercise in an old Vinten 22 I have been repairing. What remained appeared stained by fine metal particles or nylon particles from the friction...

For those who have curiosity in Vinten Vision 22 repair work. The baseplate lock tongue slides in a milled space. On my specimen which has lived a hard life, the casting had cracked upwards and the lock wouldn't work. The entire cracked section was removed and the piece was duplicated in new...

This is one to look out for it comes your way in the cinemas. I don't know if RED cams were used to shoot it but Western Australian RED owner, Sam Winzar is in the end credits for data management.

Western Australian actor and director, Ben Young has been honing his craft over the past decade or so, with short indie films, music videos TVCs and finally stepped into the deep pool with his debut feature, "Hounds Of Love". Some three decades past, a husband and wife serial killer team...

A friend film-maker looks like he will have to enter a steep learning curve with a Dragon camera. I am assuming it is a Dragon because it has the skull logo on the side of it. Am I correct in this assumption? In hard outdoors bright daylight, is there a need for IR filtering when ND is used...

I have a spare 14mm f2.8 Sigma-for-Nikon lens. I bought a spare for reason that the front element is very vulnerable to injury as it protrudes well outside of the lens body. However, I have thus far used the lens a lot less than I anticipated and have not damaged it so have not needed the spare...

I have two of these close-up attachment lenses left over from old AGUS35 groundglass adaptor builds. If any one is interested let me know and I will list them on eBay. They can be used with some Nikon 35mm AIS film stills lenses with suitable step-up adaptors. They can be also used with CP-Ultra...

For those brave few Red One owners who risked the ire of the RED's parent and fitted the P+S Technik IMS-Mount to their cameras, this might be of interest if you are operating the camera in windowed 2K or HD mode for higher frame rates but want to retain some of the 35mm field-of-view and...

I have a good selection of metal Nikon AI unmatched stills lenses in the f1.4 and f1.2 speeds. They return a good image but of course are not standard geared and inconveniently rotate the opposite to cine lenses. I am toying with the notion of selling some of the set in favour of the convenience...

This rather strange looking contrivance is a custom camera mount for the right side door of a Toyota Echo 2-door hatch. It simply hooks over the window edge and stays put but for added security I have also a hook with threaded shaft which engages the lower edge of the car door to stop the mount...

I am restoring a complete lens of this type from two damaged examples. Before I go to the torment of designing and building a PL or direct IMS mount for this lens, does anyone have a clue on a machine design diagram for a PL mount for this lens? Unfortunately, neither lens carried any style of...

I seem to recall that there was talk about a RED EPIC/SCARLETT simulator project at some time in the past. Did anything come of this? I have a colleague who is offshore who has to learn the RED ecosystem very promptly. He had been hands-on with the ARRI Alexa but the closest he has been to...

If you have the facebook, here is a link to a small endeavour which is becoming somewhat legendary. It may well become a worthy topic for the future for someone to make a film about. A man of "First Australian" origin as many in the US might define him, set off on foot from Perth in Western...

THE ORIGINAL POST IS AMENDED DUE TO SUBSEQUENT SUCCESSFUL CONTACT WITH REPAIRER/PARTS VENDOR. The original post is left for sake of info and interest to folk looking for similar assistance. I am looking for the capacitance value of a rather burned part on the "A 911" PCB, a rectifier board...

A fair old while back I posted some info on this project. This is an indie film, written produced and directed by Canadian academic and film maker Lee Chambers and made on a very modest budget. The cast and crew consisted of folk from Canada, US and Western Australia. After many travails in...

Does anyone have a circuit for dummies which will power and receive signal from an optical interrupter, triggered by a slotted disk. It is to set off a LED flash and trigger a camera ( SI2K ) in single-frame mode.

Are DCPs regionally protected like DVDs? Do they have to be authored with specific preswets to deal with the power supply frequencies of different countries? I have been advised that DCPs made for the US are labelled NYSC. This might cause a problem if the DCP is projected in Australia. I...

I have an Angenieux 15-150mm zoom which I bought off eBay as suitable for parts only as the optics have been irrecoverably fungussed. I was only after the iris to repair a 10-150mm The iris assembly itself is apparently exchangeable but I have encountered a bit of snag in dismantling the rear...

Here's a bit of a favour request. Does anyone have details of, or an image example of a transport box for the Desisti or similar sized 12K HMI lamps. Much of the future life of this lamp may be riding on trays of open topped utes or light four-wheel drives ( light trucks or SUVs in...

Hopefully nobody gets their knickers in a twist by thinking I am being in any way disrespectful. I am a SI2K owner-operator so mischief on a RED forum may well be part of the DNA. A few days back whilst assisting with a big Elemac and tracks at a film shoot, I saw the camera was not just any...