[Tig] 8mm Fullcoat Mag

[Bob Festa]

I cant believe that anyone is still using the Magnatech machine of  
death in the 21st century.
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Bob Festa
Director of Commercial Imaging
R!OT Santa Monica
bobfesta.com
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On Dec 14, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Rob Lingelbach wrote:

> Thanks to Greg Fisher for supporting the TIG.
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> On Dec 14, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Andreas Wider?e Andersen wrote:
>>
>> http://www.sondor.ch/pictures/full_omae.jpg
>>
>> What makes/models would typically be used with FDL-90/Ursa generation
>> telecines? Are there any info online about them? Manufacturers or
>> even repair shops that restore them?
>
> you'll get quite a few responses to this Andreas, hopefully.
>
> Bill Topazio, last I'd heard, might have a Magna-Tech dubber in NYC,
> and no doubt there are others that have as well; any facility that
> works with archive material for example.
>
> I don't recall the model number we used at the facilities where I
> worked in the 80s and 90s in Hollywood, but the Magna-Tech dubbers
> (the popular name for them) were workhorses and could read many
> different formats of mag-stripe film, depending on the
> (interchangeable) head used. They are typically driven by a tach pulse
> from the telecine; in the case of a Cintel machine there is a "sep mag
> wheel" that I believe is high-res in that it provides many pulses per
> frame. The cable you described must be to provide that tach pulse
> unless I'm mistaken.
>
> regards
> Rob
>
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