Hello everybody. This week's camera is a bit of a departure for me. It's an 8mm movie camera. It's the Bell and Howl model of 414 PD Zumatic Director Series. That's quite a mouthful. It's a silent 8mm film camera and it runs like a lot of these old ones did. Off of this clockwork motor has a wind indicator. You can't overwind it. And then the normal speed 16 frames per second. Slow motion runs at 48 frames per second. At normal speed, each frame is exposed for about 135th of a second. And if you're running at 48 frames per second, it's about 1 1 100th of a second per frame. It has what they call the 3-to-1 Veramatt Zune. It's 9 to 27mm. Like a lot of these because the back of the lens is really near the film gate. It's pretty easy to get them really bright. This one is F1.8 to F22. It's a nice lens. It's 11 elements. And yes, it's that camera. This is the exact same model that Abraham's a pruder used to capture the assassination of President Kennedy. I think a little bit sick that I got it, but I am shooting with it. The camera only goes normally to ISO 40. The film that I was able to get was ISO 200. I was shooting at the salt and sea. It's really, really bright there. I forgot to take neutral density filters. So I used my polarizing sunglasses over the lens. And that was good for about two stops. So once you get past the film, you can manually set your F-stop. So shooting at about ISO 50 with the glasses in front of it at F22, I was able to get some usable footage. I used Agfacrome 200D. It's an E6 process slide film. I got it from Spectra Film and Video in Hollywood, California. Sadly, they're out of it right now because I really like shooting with it. They do have some black and white film that's reversal film. And they've also got some codec color negative film. Vision 350D. You end up with negatives, but if you're scanning it in, it doesn't really matter that much. It's a pretty good deal. I had an old roll of codecrome that I shot just to check out the mechanism. Processed it is black and white. The negatives are so dense, they're pretty much useless. But you can see that on these old 8mm cameras, it's really 16mm film perforated on both sides. And when you get it back, the processor slits it down the middle and splices it together, and you end up with the 8mm film with the sprocket holes along one side. It's kind of a slick mechanism. This is where the take-up spool is. And it's kind of cool. It has four prongs or slots on the take-up side. You feed it through here onto the take-up spool. And then when it's empty, you take the film that it's wound on to. And this one only has three of these slots, so you can't screw up and have the emulsion facing the wrong way. And you run the other half of the film. The P and the model number of the 414 PD is the power zoom. It feels some of the juice from the clockwork motor and these buttons on top control the zoom. The D is because it has dual selenium meters in here when you're using the automatic metering. It has this setting on the lens where the focus is locked and then you can zoom. You push this guy in and then you can do it manually. So it's got some pretty cool features for being such an old camera. It's from somewhere between 1961 and 1963. Sears sold a tower rebranded version of this. It was in their 1962 catalog. The little heart today precisely. But somewhere 61 to 63. I'm probably going to avail myself of some of the black and white film that's still available. And run another spool through this guy. I'll see you then. Thanks for watching. .