Abstract:
A motion picture projector wherein two takeup reels are pivotable about vertical axes together with hollow guide members having inlets movable into and out of register with the slot of a switching device. The housing of the projector supports a set of cassettes which are movable sideways to assume a viewing position and thereupon a rewinding position. An automatic film threading mechanism advances the leader of film in the cassette occupying the viewing position behind the projection lens, through the switching device and into one of the guide members so that the leader is attached to the core of the respective reel. At the same time, a rewinding mechanism transports the film from the core of the other reel into the cassette occupying the rewinding position. The reels and the guide members are pivoted whenever the cassettes are shifted by a step whereby the guide member which moves out of registry with the switching device withdraws the respective film from the slot so that such film can be returned into the respective cassette without passing through the switching device. The latter is pivotable between two end positions to place the outlet of its slot into registry with the inlet of one guide member in one end position and into registry with the inlet of the other guide member in the other end position.
Abstract:
An adjustable shutter for motion picture cameras wherein a disk having a light-admitting aperture rotates with two blades which are movable relative to the disk to thereby overlie varying portions of the aperture. The disk carries a leaf spring having a radially extending slot for a follower pin which extends into arcuate cam slots of the blades and is in frictional engagement with the leaf spring. A shifter is reciprocable in the body of the camera and has two displacing cams one of which can move the follower pin radially outwardly and the other of which can move the follower pin radially inwardly to thereby turn the blades relative to the disk while the disk and the blades rotate. The shifter can be moved by a program wheel to effect gradual changes in the aperture size during the making of exposures with fade-in and/or fade-out effect.
Abstract:
A motion picture camera wherein the exposures with fade-out effect are automatically followed by a rearward transport of that length of film which was exposed during fade-out and the camera motor is arrested on completion of such rearward transport. The systems which adjust the diaphragm during fade-out, which reverse the direction of operation of the motor subsequent to fade-out, and which stop the motor on completion of rearward transport of the film receive motion from a programming disk which is indexed stepwise in response to operation of the film transporting mechanism as soon as the user moves an actuating knob to an operative position. The exposures with fade-in effect begin on movement of the actuating knob from its operative position and in response to depression of the camera release element.
Abstract:
A motion picture camera for use with film-containing cassettes having externally applied encoded information which is indicative of the sensitivity of confined film employs a scanning lever or slide which is displaced by the encoded information on a properly inserted cassette and thereby adjusts the size of the opening which is defined by the blades of a rotary shutter. This insures that the length of exposure times is a function of the sensitivity of film in the housing of the camera. A cassette containing highly sensitive film will cause the lever or slide to select relatively long exposure times so that the user can make exposures when the scene light is weak without using an electronic flash unit or an analogous source of artificial light. The exposure times will be relatively short when the camera contains film of average sensitivity which can be used in broad daylight whereby the selection of relatively short exposure times reduces the likelihood that the quality of exposures would be affected by camera shake. The camera is provided with an overriding knob which enables the user to adjust the shutter independently of the sensitivity of film in that cassette which is properly installed in the camera body.
Abstract:
A motion picture projector wherein a reciprocable carriage supports a set of abutting cassettes for motion picture film which is stored therein on supply reels and can be withdrawn through openings in bottom walls of the respective cassettes. The cassettes are insertable directly into the carriage or into a magazine which is removably inserted into the carriage. Each cassette has limited freedom of movement with reference to the carriage. The carriage is movable between several positions in each of which a different cassette occupies a projection position in which the parts of a film threading or withdrawing mechanism can enter the opening of such cassette from below in order to withdraw the leader of convoluted film and to move the leader into the range of a film transporting mechanism. A lever which is pivotable by the advancing mechanism for the carriage enters the opening of the cassette which occupies the projection position to insure that such opening assumes an optimum position with reference to the film withdrawing mechanism, irrespective of eventual deviations of the dimensions of cassettes from a desired dimension. The cassettes are movable with reference to the carriage against the opposition of springs which yield when the lever enters into the opening of a cassette in the projection position to thereby cause a movement of the opening of such cassette into exact registry with the film withdrawing mechanism.