User manual BOLEX H16

[. . . ] Attach the MM take-up motor to the bayonet fitting as shown in the illustration below. Press the motor into the fitting and turn it in the direction of the arrow until it locks fully home. The connector will then be pointing downwards. Insert the plug on the feed cable for the MM take-up motor into the upper socket on the MST motor. [. . . ] providing sufficient care is taken to avoid direct sunlight when loading the film. When the lids of the magazine and the camera have been taken off, remove the hubs from the magazine spindles by pressing down the push-buttons a and b on the spindles. The footage-counter lever must be fitted with the guide roller with the chromium-plated flanges; raise the lever as far as it will go and it will remain locked in this position. Place the other guide roller in the clip c. The spring-loaded lever 25 should remain in its disengaged position. Place the spool of unexposed film on the spindle a making sure it is pressed fully home and locked in position by the retaining device on the spindle. 2. 3. 4. The motor drives the spool in a clockwise direction. The guide roller will now press against the film (see illustration opposite). Insert the end of the film into the magazine aperture. Pull 3 c, the film through into the camera and cut the end with the film cutter. 6. 7. Close the loop formers and then proceed with the automatic loading as described in the instruction manual for the camera. Allow about 2 ft of film to run through the lower sprocket. 8. Insert the end of the film into the magazine aperture and draw the film into the magazine. 9. Holding the take-up spool in the right hand, insert the end of the film into the slot in the spool core. Fix the magazine to the camera and remove the camera lid. Open the sprocket guides and keep them open by pushing the slide forwards or by using the small fork fitted behind the jotter (for cameras not fitted with a slide, see page 3). 4. Draw out a loop of film about one and a half times the length of the camera. Run the film beneath the upper sprocket then through the gate and then over the lower sprocket. With the forefinger press the film against the gate at a and b and make the upper and lower loops as large as possible. Close the loop formers with the aid of the lever c. Hold the film as shown in the illustration and press lightly towards the front of the camera to ensure that the loop formers are well filled. At the same time withdraw the slide or the fork which is holding open the sprocket guides. For a fraction of a second depress the front button on the MST motor: the perforations on the film will engage with the teeth of the sprockets. Open the loop formers and depress, for an instant, the front button of the MST motor to ensure that the film is being transported correctly. To ensure that the camera is always loaded correctly, always follow these instructions carefully. Changing a partially exposed magazine If the exposed portion of the film is to remain in the magazine: 1. Depress the front button of the MST motor for about three seconds, so that the last exposed frame is transported into the magazine and protected from the light. [. . . ] Open the pressure plate and remove the film from the gate, the upper sprocket and finally the lower sp rocket. Hold the film loop outside the camera and press thefront button on the MST motor to take up the loop. Remove the MM take-up motor from the magazine to do this press the motor into its housing and turn it in the direction of the arrow until it disengages from the bayonet fitting (see illustration above). Whilst the new magazine is being fitted, the motor can be left hanging from its supply cable. [. . . ]