Yes, the thin double edge blades. They are sandwiched between blocks of wood, angled at about 35 degrees and only about 3/16 inch of the blades stick up above the wood. Don’t really know how to describe it in words although the idea came from pictures of slitters I’ve seen online. I’ve modified their designs to come up with my own. A table saw and drill press came in handy making this thing.Keeps the 35mm canister in place without trouble. Seems to work, haven't tried in camera yet though but it does roll onto the Yankee reel after some work.
I've seen a few MGs and they look pretty sleek. I'll keep an eye out for one. It's good to know that width isn't so critical. I might be off by a hair or so.
You used shaving razors or regular blades? Shaving razors seemed too flexible and bendy, I went with snap off's instead. The camera I bought off of Ebay showed a cartridge in the photo, but you never know, sometimes people 'forget' to send things shown in the photo. I wonder if anyone 3D prints the carts, and 110 carts.
I'm on the fence, I love taking photos but I do like messing around with the cameras too. It's all fresh to me, having grown up in the 90's I didn't have access to all this stuff. It was relatively expensive, now it's peanuts and there are loads of resources online walking you through the cameras and film formats. No more educated guesses.
I lucked out, less than 60k on mine when I bought it a year ago. Needed a new starter and battery, otherwise I'll drive it till it rusts.
Yes, the thin double edge blades. They are sandwiched between blocks of wood, angled at about 35 degrees and only about 3/16 inch of the blades stick up above the wood. Don’t really know how to describe it in words although the idea came from pictures of slitters I’ve seen online. I’ve modified their designs to come up with my own. A table saw and drill press came in handy making this thing.
Are you in the US? I could probably just cobble one together and send it to you. Double edge razor blades are getting harder to find. I had to search several stores to get a package. Everyone seems to have gone to disposable shavers.
I used to collect subminiature cameras and so I have cassettes available that I would be willing to sell. I have cassettes to fit Minolta, Mamiya, Rollei, Mec, Gami, Minicord, and Minox. Contact me if you are interested in purchasing any of these. thanks ---john.
What he said -- Minolta made a set of little filters that go on to set the focus at infinity or at a cupla close distances -- they work just fine, but I always got sharp enough by keeping the lens opening small.That's a pretty nice pic!! Yours is the 16-II? I think you can get add on lenses that are supposed to focus to infinity. I actually got a set but haven't tried them out yet. I'm impressed with quality of your pic. Might be time to load a roll and bust out the 16-II.
When I was visiting one of Whirlpool's plants in Italy, I told them about my Fiats, yes I had a Spyder as well. They said "Ah, there's the Old Fiat and the New Fiat" The old Fiat was kinda like a MG. Beautiful but, not so good.Our 2014 Fiat 500 has been absolutely trouble free, has almost 100,000 km on it, and is arguably the best car that either of us have ever owned - certainly it is the most fun to drive.
As the saying goes, YMMV.
That's a pretty nice pic!! Yours is the 16-II? I think you can get add on lenses that are supposed to focus to infinity. I actually got a set but haven't tried them out yet. I'm impressed with quality of your pic. Might be time to load a roll and bust out the 16-II.
What he said -- Minolta made a set of little filters that go on to set the focus at infinity or at a cupla close distances -- they work just fine, but I always got sharp enough by keeping the lens opening small.
flebay has them for sale: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=Minolta+16+II+filter+set&_sacat=0
That's an amazing quality image you got there.
When I was visiting one of Whirlpool's plants in Italy, I told them about my Fiats, yes I had a Spyder as well. They said "Ah, there's the Old Fiat and the New Fiat" The old Fiat was kinda like a MG. Beautiful but, not so good.
Yes, I live in the USA. I'll trade ya, send me a slitter and I'll send you enough razors to last for a while. Local off brand super market carries them.
Sure, I’m out of town now but will be back after June 1st. Don’t see that Photrio has a PM provision so when I get home I’ll look up my gmail address to send you and we can communicate that via e-mail.
Nice picture by the way. Right now I’m using the last of my Eastman Double-X 16mm and it’s a lot grainer than microfilm.
You can tell if you have the Minolta 16II by the lens speed and shutter speed range and viewfinder. If your rear viewfinder window is round then it is the 16II. It will also have shutter speeds of 1/30 to 1/500 plus ‘B’ and a 22mm f2.8 lens.
The only Minolta (widely available) that focused to infinity was the QT model. Unfortunately of the last 4 or 5 that I’ve handled not one worked. Either the shutter didn’t work or the focus control was frozen. The 16II on the other hand are almost always found functional, practically bulletproof.
Sure thing! This website is awesome...
Okay, that last post came out as all quotes. But I’m sure you can get the sense of it.
Off topic post, but film photograph of my 1971 124, from 1977 with my Yashica 124G:
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The loss of sharpness is from the too small aperture. A typical 16mm still camera might have a 25mm focal length lens. You aperture of f11 is 2.2mm. A photograph with visible light will never look good when the rays travel through such a small opening. Sharpest results with your lens will likely be around f4 to f5.6.And here's the results from my home slit film. Expired Hp5+, talk about grain. I tried to stay at between f/8 and f/16 for this roll and things do look a bit sharper.
The loss of sharpness is from the too small aperture. A typical 16mm still camera might have a 25mm focal length lens. You aperture of f11 is 2.2mm. A photograph with visible light will never look good when the rays travel through such a small opening. Sharpest results with your lens will likely be around f4 to f5.6.
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Look this up please. The post is in error if you are referring to a 25mm lens on 16mm film. Historical information about the development of the fixed-aperture Minox f3.5 lens is required reading for informed discourse on this topicIn this case it's the film. Shooting expired slit down HP5+ is not going to get amazing results.
f/4-5.6 sounds nice but I won't get much depth of field.
That's a really nice picture (and subject). I'd be extremely pleased with that level of sharpness on 110 filmThe loss of sharpness is from the too small aperture. A typical 16mm still camera might have a 25mm focal length lens. You aperture of f11 is 2.2mm. A photograph with visible light will never look good when the rays travel through such a small opening. Sharpest results with your lens will likely be around f4 to f5.6.
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