American Cinematographer - September 1968 - 70

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All you need to make
movies is a 16mm Bolex,
a lens, and talent.

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All you need to make
movies is a 16mm Bolex,
a lens, and talent.

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But Bolex is a system as well as a cam¬
era. It can be outfitted foryourspecific
professional needs. Begin with the
H-16 Rex-5 body, which has reflex
viewing, a magazine saddle, filter slot,
and variable shutter speed.
Add the lightweight 400 foot magazine,
constant speed motor, take-up motor,

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rechargeable power pack, and you are
ready to shoot 1 2 minutes of uninter¬
rupted synchronous sound footage.
Choose from a wide range of optically
perfect lenses, from fast 1 0mm wide
angle to 150mm macro-tele. From
zooms with electric exposure control

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built in to a prime lens as fast as
f/0.95.
The Bolex H-l 6 Rex-5 has automatic
threading, variable speeds from 12 to
to 64 frames per second, single frame
control. It can be hand-held or mount¬
ed on a tripod. Fully outfitted, the cam¬
era weighs less than 13 pounds.
Bolex cameras, made with Swiss

o watch making precision, have proven
their accuracy over many years time,
under the most adverse conditions,
and at tropic and arctic temperatures.
This is the Bolex H-1 6 Rex-5, The Pro¬
fessional.
For a copy of Bolex magazine's spe¬

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cial issue on communications, write
Paillard Incorporated, 1900 Lower
Road, Linden, New Jersey 07036.

Bolex H-16 Rex 5,
The Professional.

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for both. We are betting, however,
that cartridge load print volumes will
make us sing the "space and people
blues" before long. The overture has
already begun.
What about the question of optical
or magnetic sound? This is the big one
and this is the one that gets people
and
organizations
emotionally in¬
volved. Again, there are pros and
cons. It is apparent to anyone who
takes time to compare, that the mag¬
netically striped and recorded 8mm
print produces better sound quality
than an optical 8mm print.
But are these differences of such
magnitude that one will be used rath¬
er than the other? Personally, we
don't think so. We feel 8mm optical
sound produces a commercially ac¬
ceptable track. Right now it is better
than some of the 16mm optical sound
considered to be good a very few
years ago. But, there are other ad¬
vantages to the magnetic stripe-par¬
ticularly in continuous projection where
the stripe provides a raised surface
that
alleviates
the
danger from
scratches and abrasions in continuous
projection. It eliminates the necessity
of developing a photographic image
of the sound track in the processing
of duplicate prints.
But, what of the several disadvan¬
tages. There are possibilities of drop¬
outs in the magnetic sound which are
impossible to see visually. There is
the danger of unauthorized alteration
of the sound track message. There is
the danger of accidental erasure. And
it is economically impossible, at the
present time, to provide means for
high speed duplication of magnetic
sound. Consequently, prints are more
expensive and take longer to get out
of the lab. Optical tracks, on the other
hand, are traditional with the labora¬
tories, which are experienced and
physically able to duplicate them.
They are visual. They cannot be acci¬
dentally erased. They cannot be al¬
tered. They are less expensive than
magnetic and as far as we can fore¬
see, always will be. In addition, they
can be duplicated at high speeds.
The controversy over optical or mag¬
netic sound is rather like cartridge
load as opposed to reel to reel pro¬
jection. It has not yet been resolved.
Our plan is to proceed on the as¬
sumption that both systems will be uti¬
lized. We feel that we see a trend,
though. Our customers are ordering a
significantly larger number of optical
prints as opposed to magnetic. And,

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