I love how you describe these old movie cameras. I cut my teeth on the 4x5 Speed Graphic and was a military phographer for 30 years before retiring from active service. Subsequently, I volunteered at a police museum, where I got to handle vintage equipment, including wooden cameras and magazines from the esrly 1900s. Your love of old cameras shows and thanks a lot for shsring (and operating few cameras). I have never operated these but owned a Bolex H8 Rex for some time, equipped with an Angénidux zoom and oprated an Arri while doing (aircraft) chase from a jet. So, I more than appreciate those marvellously- kept instruments.
Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm and knowledge. My Father was a collector of antique cine cameras, most of them went to a museum but he left me a few, one of which is a Prestwich just like this one in beautiful condition. I would love to speak to you about it if possible, I do think about its future and how and where it should be preserved for future generations.
Amazing how this early camera was so technically advanced. Such craftsmanship! Also wondering about the film stock. Looks like the sprocket holes of the film stock and frame aspect ratio and size, for this camera matches “today’s” film stock - which I assume you are using in your demo. ...Rowby.
I think my favourite silent film camera could be Prestwich. I mostly like about this camera is that I really like it's wooden and square design! ;) I wish I got this camera, but they are extremely rare to find! :\
The Prestwich is not from the beginning of the beginning. It belongs to an already flourishing industry in the UK. The very early cameras are the cinématographe Lumière, the Photochronographe Démény, the Acres, Skladanowsky, Kinetograph, Green, Bouly, and before all these the 1888 camera of Louis Le Prince. Let’s not forget the 1897 camera of Newman & Guardia, the Joly, Darling, Williamson, Smith, de Bedts, Pathé, Gaumont, Messter as well as the Amet, Lauste-Latham, Dickson-Casler, all earlier than 1900.
I prefer the kind of antique wooden cameras in your videos that they are really wonderful and the scenes they make in them attract me and I sincerely hope to get one day and make a movie in black and white or to be able to make one simulates its shape and work. Why do not you make a movie with a camera and you have a channel? Finally how much does it cost to buy one? And the subject of the appropriate film and can be obtained? Thank you
