Lego Super-8 Video Projector 66
dosh8er writes "This is pretty cool. Other than the reels, lamp, and lens, Friedemann Wachsmuth built this fascinating (and useful) Super-8 video projector from what appears to be common Lego Technic parts."
Video camera? It's a movie projector. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Call me (Score:4, Informative)
Now I can check out dad's porn stash.
I can't help thinking that this is one of those things it's better not to investigate. Do you really wan to know what your dad likes wanking to?
Off topic: apparently firefox doesn't think that "wank" is an English word, does this warrant a bug report?
It's the film handling.... (Score:4, Informative)
The important part is the film handler. Unlike a camera, which can run the film more or less continuously and use a fast shutter speed, a projector has to stop the film for most of the frame's duration, and then quickly accelerate it out of the way while only blocking the light for a very short duration, or else the movie would "smear". Of course it flickers, since this is Lego, but it doesn't smear, and that's quite a feat.
Re:Video camera? It's a movie projector. (Score:4, Informative)
A Kodak Brownie is a regular 8mm camera. Not Super 8. Super 8 uses a film cassette, whereas regular 8mm used 16mm film with a sprocket on both sides. You turned the reel over to shoot the second side, then at the processor they split the film in half. For inexplicable reasons, Super 8 and Regular 8 film had different sprocket hole sizes, so they are incompatible formats.
Because Regular 8 film was regular 16mm stock and rolled on an open generic film reel, you can probably still get it. Super 8? Probably not.