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• Figs. I to 7 above show, step by step, procedure for dismantling the Perfex camera for installation of single-frame release and counter.
Single Frame Release and Counter For The Perfex
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HE 8mm. Perfex, being a comparatively new camera in the field of home movie making, thus far has seen little of the gadgeteer's hand seeking to improve it with such features as a single frame exposure release and frame counter. Almost every other cine camera, not marketed with such features al
ready built in, have had excellent backwinds, single frame releases and frame or footage counters added by clever cinebugs; and nearly all of these accomplishments have been illustrated and described in previous issues of Home Movies.
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fer here a description of the single frame release and frame counter I added to my Perfex camera, and to give some pointers to other Perfex owners interested in making similar improvements. For those who would attempt the making of animated titles or cartoons and other trick picture effects, the single frame release is an absolute necessity for this kind of work. It is equally important where there is a desire to record in slow motion the growth of flowers or the formation of clouds, etc., so that such action, normally involving several hours, appears on the screen in a period of seconds.
The frame counter finds its usefulness in a great many ways. Inasmuch as the Perfex is a magazine camera, iris or other type fades may be made as follows: The magazine is turned over, and, with the lens cap on, the film wound
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