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Lego Super-8 Video Projector

Posted by samzenpus on from the toy-camera dept.

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."

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  1. Video camera? It's a movie projector. by NixieBunny · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is a difference between movies and videos, and between projectors and cameras. Subtle, but it's there.

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    1. Re:Video camera? It's a movie projector. by freedumb2000 · · Score: 2

      Nonono, tin foil is for hats!

    2. Re:Video camera? It's a movie projector. by MstrFool · · Score: 2

      Certainly. All that is needed to understand this is an understanding of the word 'Movie' and where it comes from. A Movie is not a big budget production that you pay to see, it is a series of still images projected in rapid succession to give the appearance of motion. Only quite recently has the terminology started to shift from 'Home Movies' to 'Home Video'. So yes, if you converted the video to super 8, it would in fact qualify as a movie. Though don't be surprised when kids these days aren't aware of the real meaning of the word and are confused by it. And get off my lawn...

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    3. Re:Video camera? It's a movie projector. by Bing+Tsher+E · · 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.

  2. Re:Call me by funkatron · · Score: 3, 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?

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  3. Re:No, you neophyte! by NixieBunny · · Score: 2

    You try having kids and not calling them LEGOs. "Sammy! Clean up your LEGOs right this minute!"

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  4. Re:Call me by Lucidus · · Score: 2

    'Wan' is a word. It means 'pale.'

  5. It's the film handling.... by meekg · · 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.