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ANNUAL CHARITY SALE: -- ASTONISHING HULCHER SEQUENCE CAMERA!!!

This amazingly rare camera kicks off my annual charity sale -- every penny raised goes to the Food Bank in Ogden, Utah run by Catholic Community Services, so buy early and often!

DETAILS: The Hulcher 35 was an amazing machine, capable of shooting up to 100 frames per second on 35mm film, which means it could run through 100 feet of film is about 10 seconds. Until the rise of digital it was a premier tool for special effects, action sports and scientific use. LIFE Magazine used them. They originally sold for upwards of $4,000 and were pretty much hand-made in Virginia, USA.

Now, of course, they cost a LOT less. How much less?

Would you believe $275? I'm basing that on ebay asking prices for similar machines and some sanity here. That includes shipping in the USA. Please don't ask me to ship this overseas.

This particular camera, Serial No. 44, is a unique opportunity. That said, it's also a bit of a project.

WHAT YOU GET: Complete camera body comes with lens boards for both Leica R and Leica M lenses, the proper power pack to run it, a beat-up hand grip to hold it. There is also an original owner's manual, a couple of brochures from the Hulcher company, and some interesting correspondence from its owner in 1979, Rudi Niedzielski of something called FRAME ONE in Los Angeles. The camera was used professionally and looks it, although it has no dents or dings.

There's a letter to Rudi signed by Charles Hulcher, the builder/inventor, himself, thanking Rudi for asking about the camera.

WHAT YOU DON'T GET: You will need a cord to connect the power pack to the camera. Looks like a common-type cord. These also used a battery that clipped onto the bottom, and I don't have one of those. That means that while I see no reason why this camera would not work, but I have no way to test it. Caveat Emptor, What you see is what you get and help me feed the hungry.

Pictures!!!!!

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First money to paypal gets it: summicron12000@yahoo.com is both my email AND my paypal address. You send me money, I send you the camera, I cut a check to CCS for the exact amount you send me, I pay the shipping out of my own pocket, my share of the effort.

Questions? Charlie Trentelman, Ogden Utah. If you pick up locally I'll even buy you lunch on Ogden's notorious Two-Bit Street.
 
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Pretty kool kamera, and kudos for feeding the poor! I'm just curious, what kind of shutter does this have? I can see the mirror, does that flip-flop like crazy or does it stay up while the shutter cycles? Thanks, Bob in Michigan.
 

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Wow! A Hulcher 35! Crazy!

I do believe that is a beam-splitter camera, is it not?

From what I remember, it is essentially a vistavision movie camera with a beater movement and no pin registration (right?). The film is advanced by that eccentric lever with a roller under the gate (right hand side of the lens mount looking down) and it "beats" the film through the gate. It's more precise that you would think... It has a rotary shutter of probably 160 to 180 degrees.
 
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Pretty kool kamera, and kudos for feeding the poor! I'm just curious, what kind of shutter does this have? I can see the mirror, does that flip-flop like crazy or does it stay up while the shutter cycles? Thanks, Bob in Michigan.


to answer you and the other guy -- yes, it is a pellicle -- it diverts some of the light to the viewfinder but most goes to the film which, the manual says, allows the operator "to continuously view thescreen with no parallax and no special sights for the different lenses."

Originally equipped with a Nikon mount, this says,but this camera has the two Leica mounts, its owner being more snobbish, camera lens-wise, I guess.

The shutter is a rotating disc with a slit that can be adjusted in size for different speeds. The old Mercury half-frame cameras used a similar principle. One shooter -- I think the guy from LIFE -- put a second slit in the disc for special movement effects. If you google these things you can see some interesting stuff they produced.

Here's a good article:

https://www.wired.com/2012/08/hulcher-high-speed-cameras/
 
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Wow! A Hulcher 35! Crazy!

I do believe that is a beam-splitter camera, is it not?

From what I remember, it is essentially a vistavision movie camera with a beater movement and no pin registration (right?). The film is advanced by that eccentric lever with a roller under the gate (right hand side of the lens mount looking down) and it "beats" the film through the gate. It's more precise that you would think... It has a rotary shutter of probably 160 to 180 degrees.

see previous answer -- you are correct!
 

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That rotary shutter is obvious, but I would have expected a rotary prism in addition, to yield continuous-speed film transport.

And I guess such prism sits within the sprocket wheel.
 
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to answer you and the other guy -- yes, it is a pellicle -- it diverts some of the light to the viewfinder but most goes to the film which, the manual says, allows the operator "to continuously view thescreen with no parallax and no special sights for the different lenses."

Originally equipped with a Nikon mount, this says,but this camera has the two Leica mounts, its owner being more snobbish, camera lens-wise, I guess.

The shutter is a rotating disc with a slit that can be adjusted in size for different speeds. The old Mercury half-frame cameras used a similar principle. One shooter -- I think the guy from LIFE -- put a second slit in the disc for special movement effects. If you google these things you can see some interesting stuff they produced.

Here's a good article:

https://www.wired.com/2012/08/hulcher-high-speed-cameras/
Thank you for the article, very interesting and a very good reason to get late to work :smile:
 
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That rotary shutter is obvious, but I would have expected a rotary prism in addition, to yield continuous-speed film transport.

And I guess such mirror sits within the sprocket wheel.
no, the mirror is fixed in place. It is a pellicle -- semi-transparent mirror. It never moves during exposure. Canon Pellicle worked the same way.
 

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I do not mean that mirror visible throug the mount.
But a mirror (actually a prism) rotating at same angular speed as the film. This yields an image stationary on the moving film.
 
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BUMPING, CUTTING PRICE.

I"d even consider trades. I mean ...c'mon folks. You need this thing.
 
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