Flightless Angels

These people are in line waiting for the release of Apple’s IPhone 5 on Friday. Today is Monday.

So I’ve done a couple of conversions with the current setup and it’s apparent that I need to make a few changes.
The first is the camera; my digital SLR took about 18,000 frames for 2 films and that’s really bad for the mechanical systems. So I’m now using this Samsung NX200 mirror less unit. It’s around 20 megapixels and has an APS-C sensor.

However, it doesn’t have a remote shutter connection (which I should have checked out) so I built this mechanical actuator.

It’s a block of balsa which fits snugly over the camera. On the top is a relay and solenoid which mechanically activates the shutter.

I need to document this a little better. I’ve been working on an 8mm film to video converter for some time. Here’s a quick look.

I just started a new job where, for the first time ever, I have an office.

I just got the board running and it’ll be shooting a particularly boring movie overnight to make sure my timing is ok.

So called because that’s what’s printed on the PCB, this is one of the units I received a few weeks back.