It's wild that's how people made and watched home movies. You needed 3 giant, hot and loud contraptions that used a ton of electricity to make and watch a 20 minute movie with no sound. I remember as a kid, my grandfather would pull out all this equipment, fight to set everything up, fight to get the projector screen up right, fire it up to watch 7 minutes of people I don't know waving at the camera in some random place. Wild, just wild. We really take our phones for granted.
I find it both interesting and fascinating that Ben uses a mimicked "Mom" voice. This means that Mom is a real character in the Heckiverse. I look forward to future Mom impressions. I also like that Ben's Mom truly believes that he can do anything, like a largish balding superhero. As a large, balding person, I find that there's a chance, perhaps for me as well, some day. Not a certainty, but there's a chance in the Heckiverse.
Man, I remember when thrift stores were chock full of working, but obsolete, Super 8 cameras back in the 90's. Also, Cartoon Cat is a damn good detective!
for heat-set inserts i like to design the hole so that the insert goes in about a third of the way, and then you heat it up and it melts the plastic and seats properly. prevents oversqueeze.
At 6 minutes, the two divots were probably points to provide leverage to unscrew the led assembly out of the body. Should just be a threaded aluminum slug containing the LED and related driver circuitry. That's how every flashlight I've disassembled so far has been. I think the end result is probably better than removing just the slug, so it all worked out in the end.
One part time job i had as a teen was running a 16mm projector at the local town hall once a week for kids to watch a movie. Usually an old Disney animated thing. One time the power supply went out for the exciter lamp (sound bulb), right at the end if reel #1. After a break, it was decided to let reel 2 show anyway. The usual mumbling normally heard was totally gone and other then the sound of the projector, it was amazingly quiet as the kids watched the silent reel. I repaired the supply in time for the next weeks show. this definitely brought back those memories.
Yea, I recently learned that sound was handled through an optical "channel" on the side of the film, and that blew my mind to learn! Was even utilized to do store it digitally, for surround sound if I'm remembering correctly. Really impressive stuff!
I always like how Ben thinks things through and not just impatiently wing them like Adam Savage does. I always get so irked by Savage’s savage way of engineering. And what a superb ending, my favorite section of RetroRecipes is always the nostalgia flakes (old photos). It often makes me choke a bit.
Ben Heck just distracting us with dumb songs and pragmatic realism bordering on cynicism, then going in for the mercy kill in the last minute of the video like we're a bunch of Lennies. It's a terrible day for rain.
i did a similar mod to an old DLP office projector. although i used the original housing and installed a 30watt cob led mounted to a 1u server copper heatsink and used an external 12v led power supply, worked pretty well, and i never used it, currently sitting in storage lol
Nice retrofit. I was looking to do the same with a super-8 editor / viewer, and was experimenting with some of those cheap flashlights from Harbor Freight. Next up is building the filmscanner project on Hack-a-day. That way we can get a frame perfect digitization and watch on a PC or thru the TV for that next level capture.
Been doing a 130xe laptop conversion and scanned the board for reference photos and didn’t realize the scanner doesn’t go to the edges. No wonder why I couldn’t get all the bolt holes to align lol. Good info on the center trick I’ll have to try that. I also take straight on photos with some success. I’ve burned through 4 rolls of filament already in iterations on the bambu x1 😂
Yeah they have a small horizontal sensor which is then stretched lengthwise. Which is why the deviation increases towards the other edge. An orthographic scanner would be cool. I'm sure it exists.
Ben, comparing the original & new light sources, how does it affect color rendering? My home flashlights all look cold-white ... but maybe it isn’t noticeable.
Are you sure you're actually getting a full spread spectrum of visible light with that LED? Some of them only put out limited wavelengths which don't illuminate all colors properly. I found out some under cabinet LEDs I ordered and modified and was installing made yellow look orange. My Dewalt tool was orange when I set it on the counter. I Immediately removed them and ordered correct spectrum under cabinet task lighting.
8:35 - Wouldn't it be better to flip the metal part to get the other side more true to its size? You would scan both sides and then keep the parts of each image that touch the glass of the scanner.
this would an interesting hack for led screen projectors the older ones , expensive and rear filament bulbs still in them? the only problem most seem to have when is not fitted, with there120 watt power heavy filament bulb, is they promptly switch off ? wonder the not using 5 to 10 watts instead of 120 watts
You realize why that flashlight has that specific arrangement of AA batteries, right? I have a 3-battery AA flashlight with a similar arrangement for just 3 cells. It's pretty clear you can just replace it with one third as many 18650 rechargeable lithium cells.
I have an idea for how you could build an orthographic camera. Would love to see you attempt it one day. The basic idea would be to build like a 10x10 grid of cheap camera sensors and calibrate software to always pick the middle color (i.e. forward) of each camera. Then move the grid up/down/left/right to scan 'forward' with each of the cameras. Technically you could probably just do one camera, but would be too slow. Anyway, a giant like 12"x12" ortho camera would be rad
I recently rewatched _Last Action Hero_ within the last 10 months and I found it held up fine... I still enjoyed it as much as I did back in the day. Maybe it's slightly age and nostalgia related, since I know you're a couple years older than I am? 🤷♂️ (I'm 41)
9:29 most scanners these days have a sensor that spans the entire width of the page. you can tell by the fiber optic row of lenses. even eevblog took one apart in a 3-in-1 printer combine
It's CCD vs CIS. CCD scanners use lenses to reflect light to a central sensor; CIS scanners use a sensor that goes the entire way across. You're talking about CIS, Ben's is CCD. There's advantages and disadvantages to both; the fact that Ben used a CCD scanner means we can see the back of the part in the scan. The walls would be straight with a CIS scanner, but their very short focal range means the back of the part would be very blurry. It may be so blurry that we'd need to scan it twice. CCD is also generally better for scanning images; they have better colour reproduction, and their single-sensor nature means the entire width is captured in a single sweep. A CIS scanner will need to stitch the output of several smaller sensors together, and this can be visible in your scans. CIS is better for large formath, you can string CIS sensors end to end for as long as you want. An A0 CIS scanner can be the same height as an A6 one; an A0 CCD scanner would need to be *huge*, need very expensive optics, and a very high resolution sensor. CIS scanners are also much cheaper. They don't need special optics or a high-resolution common sensor, you just have more small ones.
When it comes to flatbed scanners, it depends on the pickup assembly for the image. My Canon LiDE uses a contact image sensor as yours probably still uses the traditional CCD and optics assemblies so the image probably doesn't lose accuracy to the edges but the CIS apparently doesn't give as high-quality of a scan. My LiDE also runs directly off of USB instead of requiring a large power brick or some other power supply to get the job done. Nicely done as usual, Ben. Although, would the image appeared as dim in real life as it did in this video but as dim on this projector with the stock incredibly short life 15 h bulb?
Charles Dance might just be the most surprising highlight of Alien 3. Also, with age comes wisdom and thus my opinion about Alien 3 changed to the point it might be on my favorite of the bunch, even though or maybe because it's not the best.
As a kid, I think I first saw Charles Dance on a BBC TV show called First Born -- "Dance starred as genetic researcher Edward Forester, whose work leads him to create a man-gorilla hybrid, using sperm from an unknown sperm donor and cells taken from a female gorilla. He then raises the baby as his own son, only to find that there are horrifying consequences for playing God." -- from wikipedia. It was also my first introduction to Gabrielle Anwar. :)
But everybody can watch you shoot out of your lane and reach for the stars in a rollercoaster-like motion as the fart propels you in the cartoony fantasy that lives in my head. That's all folks!
I don't know if you recorded your whole fusion session - but if you did: I wouldn't mind see your process in recreating this part in realtime. even without audio or explanations. Maybe more people would be interested?
The flashlight package promises 2500 lumens, but Ben measured it consuming at most 6V and 1.5A, if I got that correctly. That's 9W max, which is too low for 2500 Lumens.
@@jerther_AvE mentioned in the vid and TTC in the comments. Thus proving why Ben's community is the best lol _(Torque Test Channel, for the uninitiated; the modern day Consumer Reports and I can't recommend them enough!)_
Why use illustrator? Fusion 360 can import a photo as canvas for tracing it as a sketch. It also has a tool for calibrating the dimensions. You can have a canvas on each axis plane.
Did you put a busing in the little hole you drilled in the metal or will the wires eat through from projector vibrations after a couple hours of run time?
I can't believe in this day and age they are still selling torches with bloody AA batteries , I got one exactly the same(different brand) and converted it to 26650s, nothing worse than them lasting like 30 mins on high and that's it ....10 euro of batteries gone.
This is so weird. I just dug out a Bell and Howell Super 8 projector and camera to shoot pix to get it ready for sale. That was 5 hours ago and I fire up UA-cam and here's your clip. So: Does Google monitor what we shoot with the camera on a Google phone or this this just random, universal serendipity? 🤔
Seems some telepation going on because a week ago I was thinking of doing the same! I want to watch some old super 8 movies with my dad but the bulb died. I found a replacement bulb (GU10 standard like at 12v) at the thrift store for only 25 cents but this bulb will only survive 15 hours of use. Because the developed heat inside because of this hologen bulb also effects the size of the present belt (the reason it stops working halfway), I was thinking of doing the same , replace it with a LED bulb. It needs to be 900 lumens (source - a conversion table) to replace a 100W halogen bulb but actually I think it needs to be twice as much to get a more clear/brighter picture. Didn't found one yet. To capture a movie, with the highest quality possible, I found out that using a non -shiny white surface (like a piece of A4 paper) to project image on at a very close distance work out the best. This minimize lens effects or defects, gives optimal brightness and sharpness and avoids bluring of the image. The non-shiny surface avoids mirror effects especially when placing a camera in front of the image. If your camera supports the 4:3 aspect ratio, use it. Happy recording!
Too bright means washed out bad, so he probably experimented with the brightness using a bench power supply off camera to see what was the optimum power level?
I miss Ben's Menard's videos. However, since I now live in TN instead of MN, I physically miss Menard's as well! 😭 FUN FACT: In Alaska, they have a builders supply store called _Spenard's!_ It's complete coincidence though, as I believe it's name is derived from the original store in Anchorage being on the road named Spendard. When my uncle (from MN) first came to our cabin to go fishing and saw our 5gal bucket saying Spenard's, he thought it was some sort of elaborate joke, where we had the bucket made as a spoof of Menard's 😅
As a 70 year old guy, that ending brought back memories of days gone and cherished. And maybe a small tear or two...thank you Ben.
It's wild that's how people made and watched home movies. You needed 3 giant, hot and loud contraptions that used a ton of electricity to make and watch a 20 minute movie with no sound. I remember as a kid, my grandfather would pull out all this equipment, fight to set everything up, fight to get the projector screen up right, fire it up to watch 7 minutes of people I don't know waving at the camera in some random place. Wild, just wild. We really take our phones for granted.
And being LED, you've dramatically dropped the odds of melting/burning the film!
True!
The nostalgic ending is epic.
A Menards Vid! Made my day!
I find it both interesting and fascinating that Ben uses a mimicked "Mom" voice. This means that Mom is a real character in the Heckiverse. I look forward to future Mom impressions. I also like that Ben's Mom truly believes that he can do anything, like a largish balding superhero. As a large, balding person, I find that there's a chance, perhaps for me as well, some day. Not a certainty, but there's a chance in the Heckiverse.
Glad to see Uncle Ben have another video out. I'm not a metric guy but just found it's easier to handle than lot of decimal points or fractions.
Fun lil project, thanks for taking us along
Loved the ending. Very unexpected.
Man, I remember when thrift stores were chock full of working, but obsolete, Super 8 cameras back in the 90's.
Also, Cartoon Cat is a damn good detective!
Ben and Menard's! Name a better combination.
Ben and Bud
Peanut butter & Duke's Mayo.
"Regrettable acting!" "I WANT TO LIVE IN A WORLD WITH STAR WARS AGAIN!!!!!!!"
I want to live in a world, with women like we see in these
new AI film creations, here on YT. OMG!!!!! 😮🤪😍😍😛😛🍑🍑
@zapa1pnt On the topic of regrettable.
Doesn't matter if I have to get up at 5 a.m. Ben made a video I have to watch.
the ending was super rad
With your knowledge & equipment, I'm like Homer Simpson thinking about donuts, UUUUUUURRRRG!
3D printers are cheap and Fusion 360 is free for personal use. Knowledge just takes time and the desire to have more of it.
The end really got me.
Excellent cinematics and regrettable acting in this one, great job!
for heat-set inserts i like to design the hole so that the insert goes in about a third of the way, and then you heat it up and it melts the plastic and seats properly. prevents oversqueeze.
Ben so glad to see you with another Menards selection, it has been too long carry on fella!
Ben waxing philosophical there at the end...
At 6 minutes, the two divots were probably points to provide leverage to unscrew the led assembly out of the body. Should just be a threaded aluminum slug containing the LED and related driver circuitry. That's how every flashlight I've disassembled so far has been. I think the end result is probably better than removing just the slug, so it all worked out in the end.
"IT'S PENUMBRA!"
I don't know what Ben is drinking, but what the Heck! I WANT SOME!
There's only one word to use in describing your ending: poignant. Because "poignant" is such a poignant word. But the ending was good, too.
One part time job i had as a teen was running a 16mm projector at the local town hall once a week for kids to watch a movie. Usually an old Disney animated thing. One time the power supply went out for the exciter lamp (sound bulb), right at the end if reel #1. After a break, it was decided to let reel 2 show anyway. The usual mumbling normally heard was totally gone and other then the sound of the projector, it was amazingly quiet as the kids watched the silent reel. I repaired the supply in time for the next weeks show. this definitely brought back those memories.
Yea, I recently learned that sound was handled through an optical "channel" on the side of the film, and that blew my mind to learn! Was even utilized to do store it digitally, for surround sound if I'm remembering correctly. Really impressive stuff!
You bite your toungue Ben Heck! Last Action Hero the Movie was a great Satire of Arnold playing himself!
I believe even Arnold loved the movie and wanted to do a sequel, but it didn't earn enough to justify it. Shame, as I find it's a great movie still 😞
I think this will convince Ben to do a 360
"Der's always uh guy in Der"
“Like the pilgrims would have done” honest LOL on that one
In your mom's voice " you know what would be great is if you can convert that to mp4".
Great ending.
Yeah I legit thought that was really nice. I hope he showed his mom.
I always like how Ben thinks things through and not just impatiently wing them like Adam Savage does. I always get so irked by Savage’s savage way of engineering. And what a superb ending, my favorite section of RetroRecipes is always the nostalgia flakes (old photos). It often makes me choke a bit.
Ben Heck just distracting us with dumb songs and pragmatic realism bordering on cynicism, then going in for the mercy kill in the last minute of the video like we're a bunch of Lennies. It's a terrible day for rain.
LEDs like that make a good headlamp.
Wow bitter sweet memories, thank you Ben.
Look, mum, no bulb!
Love it, Ben! Cheers.
Beautiful ending!
i did a similar mod to an old DLP office projector. although i used the original housing and installed a 30watt cob led mounted to a 1u server copper heatsink and used an external 12v led power supply, worked pretty well, and i never used it, currently sitting in storage lol
I cherish you, Ben ❤
AVE would have written "skookum choochers" instead of taps.
Nice retrofit. I was looking to do the same with a super-8 editor / viewer, and was experimenting with some of those cheap flashlights from Harbor Freight. Next up is building the filmscanner project on Hack-a-day. That way we can get a frame perfect digitization and watch on a PC or thru the TV for that next level capture.
Ah yes, the pilgrims were notorious for reusing parts in early 1600s 3D printing.
Metal fasteners were so expensive back then, they’d burn their houses down when they moved to get all the nails back to use on their next house
You did a great job. I wish you opted for a warm white bulb though.
Beautiful outro🥲❤️
Been doing a 130xe laptop conversion and scanned the board for reference photos and didn’t realize the scanner doesn’t go to the edges. No wonder why I couldn’t get all the bolt holes to align lol. Good info on the center trick I’ll have to try that. I also take straight on photos with some success. I’ve burned through 4 rolls of filament already in iterations on the bambu x1 😂
Yeah they have a small horizontal sensor which is then stretched lengthwise. Which is why the deviation increases towards the other edge. An orthographic scanner would be cool. I'm sure it exists.
Ouch on the end tho, i felt that
Ben, you are a Mad Men.
Ben, comparing the original & new light sources, how does it affect color rendering? My home flashlights all look cold-white ... but maybe it isn’t noticeable.
The Super 8 film, whack up the volume on your home cinema surround system. Then watch the train crash scene, excellent.
"I need to make it look like I tried!"
Are you sure you're actually getting a full spread spectrum of visible light with that LED? Some of them only put out limited wavelengths which don't illuminate all colors properly. I found out some under cabinet LEDs I ordered and modified and was installing made yellow look orange. My Dewalt tool was orange when I set it on the counter. I Immediately removed them and ordered correct spectrum under cabinet task lighting.
😂totally crazy! That's why I follow this man!
Mad men. Superb series
8:35 - Wouldn't it be better to flip the metal part to get the other side more true to its size? You would scan both sides and then keep the parts of each image that touch the glass of the scanner.
And when the shutter mechanism gives up, you can just PWM that LED. 👍
damn that ending.... ouch!
You are a madman!!
Great video Ben!
this would an interesting hack for led screen projectors the older ones , expensive and rear filament bulbs still in them? the only problem most seem to have when is not fitted, with there120 watt power heavy filament bulb, is they promptly switch off ? wonder the not using 5 to 10 watts instead of 120 watts
I recently looked into doing a similar project. I decided to drop it, though, and just scan the film instead. May pick it back up 🤔
You realize why that flashlight has that specific arrangement of AA batteries, right? I have a 3-battery AA flashlight with a similar arrangement for just 3 cells. It's pretty clear you can just replace it with one third as many 18650 rechargeable lithium cells.
I have an idea for how you could build an orthographic camera. Would love to see you attempt it one day. The basic idea would be to build like a 10x10 grid of cheap camera sensors and calibrate software to always pick the middle color (i.e. forward) of each camera. Then move the grid up/down/left/right to scan 'forward' with each of the cameras. Technically you could probably just do one camera, but would be too slow.
Anyway, a giant like 12"x12" ortho camera would be rad
Was the projector brighter in person?
I was into 8mm for a while back in the day, but I’d like to get into Super 8 with sound. :)
Liked for useing the term "roched" those of use if a certain age know exactly what that means 😅
I recently rewatched _Last Action Hero_ within the last 10 months and I found it held up fine... I still enjoyed it as much as I did back in the day.
Maybe it's slightly age and nostalgia related, since I know you're a couple years older than I am? 🤷♂️
(I'm 41)
Hah, I typed that before the end clip talking about nostalgia, so... quite fitting! 😅
3:20 Glad the "Party Slot" was working
But Ben you CAN do anything. Can't you?? CAN"T YOU????
9:29 most scanners these days have a sensor that spans the entire width of the page. you can tell by the fiber optic row of lenses. even eevblog took one apart in a 3-in-1 printer combine
It's CCD vs CIS. CCD scanners use lenses to reflect light to a central sensor; CIS scanners use a sensor that goes the entire way across. You're talking about CIS, Ben's is CCD.
There's advantages and disadvantages to both; the fact that Ben used a CCD scanner means we can see the back of the part in the scan. The walls would be straight with a CIS scanner, but their very short focal range means the back of the part would be very blurry. It may be so blurry that we'd need to scan it twice.
CCD is also generally better for scanning images; they have better colour reproduction, and their single-sensor nature means the entire width is captured in a single sweep. A CIS scanner will need to stitch the output of several smaller sensors together, and this can be visible in your scans.
CIS is better for large formath, you can string CIS sensors end to end for as long as you want. An A0 CIS scanner can be the same height as an A6 one; an A0 CCD scanner would need to be *huge*, need very expensive optics, and a very high resolution sensor.
CIS scanners are also much cheaper. They don't need special optics or a high-resolution common sensor, you just have more small ones.
When it comes to flatbed scanners, it depends on the pickup assembly for the image. My Canon LiDE uses a contact image sensor as yours probably still uses the traditional CCD and optics assemblies so the image probably doesn't lose accuracy to the edges but the CIS apparently doesn't give as high-quality of a scan. My LiDE also runs directly off of USB instead of requiring a large power brick or some other power supply to get the job done.
Nicely done as usual, Ben. Although, would the image appeared as dim in real life as it did in this video but as dim on this projector with the stock incredibly short life 15 h bulb?
is the projection very dark or is it just the camera filming it?
Charles Dance might just be the most surprising highlight of Alien 3. Also, with age comes wisdom and thus my opinion about Alien 3 changed to the point it might be on my favorite of the bunch, even though or maybe because it's not the best.
As a kid, I think I first saw Charles Dance on a BBC TV show called First Born -- "Dance starred as genetic researcher Edward Forester, whose work leads him to create a man-gorilla hybrid, using sperm from an unknown sperm donor and cells taken from a female gorilla. He then raises the baby as his own son, only to find that there are horrifying consequences for playing God." -- from wikipedia.
It was also my first introduction to Gabrielle Anwar. :)
Alien 3 isn't that bad.
Man I wish I had this back in drafting class in high school.... 7:49
19:14 In space no one can smell your fart 💨
But everybody can watch you shoot out of your lane and reach for the stars in a rollercoaster-like motion as the fart propels you in the cartoony fantasy that lives in my head. That's all folks!
I don't know if you recorded your whole fusion session - but if you did: I wouldn't mind see your process in recreating this part in realtime. even without audio or explanations. Maybe more people would be interested?
Good to see you are back at your happy place!
Flat bed scanners typically don't distort in part because they do have a sensor all the way across. We're you talking about a different scanner?
This one has a lens. Maybe it's time for an upgrade.
@BenHeckHacks ah well that may be a nice scanner then! I typically get cheap scanners from goodwill as printer combos with no ink lol
@@JernD You can scan without ink? That's news to HP
@@kg790
Those lot used to be somewhat competent and could produce products that still had unrelated processes that were functional without ink.
Good job Ben. :)
Is that a Lamp or a Sega Nomad? Love grumpy videos 😂😂😂
Would be good with maybe 2 x the brightness and warmer LED's - (will need additional cooling no doubt) - but I know you can do it!
A shiny new club to bonk with...
I really enjoyed Penumbra
That got very dour at the end. Makes me want a Ben hacks philosophy channel.
The flashlight package promises 2500 lumens, but Ben measured it consuming at most 6V and 1.5A, if I got that correctly. That's 9W max, which is too low for 2500 Lumens.
Did you take into consideration it is a LED?
Nevertheless, over-rating is a common Chinese problem.
Classic outrageously overrated chinese flashlights... TTC and Project Farm are busting these for fun.
@@jerther_AvE mentioned in the vid and TTC in the comments. Thus proving why Ben's community is the best lol
_(Torque Test Channel, for the uninitiated; the modern day Consumer Reports and I can't recommend them enough!)_
Why use illustrator? Fusion 360 can import a photo as canvas for tracing it as a sketch. It also has a tool for calibrating the dimensions. You can have a canvas on each axis plane.
Did you put a busing in the little hole you drilled in the metal or will the wires eat through from projector vibrations after a couple hours of run time?
Put heat shrink over wires.
I can't believe in this day and age they are still selling torches with bloody AA batteries , I got one exactly the same(different brand) and converted it to 26650s, nothing worse than them lasting like 30 mins on high and that's it ....10 euro of batteries gone.
What's even worse is things that still use button/coin cells. Especially things that have all kinds of room for MUCH larger batteries.
Sweet ending :)
Don Draper, although Roger Sterling was my favorite.
I just realized Matt Walsh sounds like Carl Sagan.
The odds of that must be in the "billions and billions"...!😉
Do you have any concerns about the UV light from the LEDs fading the film?
If your uncle had been married a little earlier, you could have talked about the wonders of Joel Schumacher instead of J J Abrams!
This is so weird.
I just dug out a Bell and Howell Super 8 projector and camera to shoot pix to get it ready for sale.
That was 5 hours ago and I fire up UA-cam and here's your clip.
So: Does Google monitor what we shoot with the camera on a Google phone or this this just random, universal serendipity?
🤔
Google absolutely listens on your microphone and suggests YT vids based in conversations. Has that happen many, MANY times.
SATA-0? never heard of it. Did you mean RAID-0?
I think he means the drive was attached to the first SATA interface, which is usually numbered 0.
@@wakkowarner7391 Ah, that does make sense. (Although it's redundant with "C:" at that point.)
2500 Lummis only for less than 5 mins unless you force cool the led's
a circuit with output 3.5 volts dc and keeps time turns on off randomly and off at night
Seems some telepation going on because a week ago I was thinking of doing the same! I want to watch some old super 8 movies with my dad but the bulb died. I found a replacement bulb (GU10 standard like at 12v) at the thrift store for only 25 cents but this bulb will only survive 15 hours of use. Because the developed heat inside because of this hologen bulb also effects the size of the present belt (the reason it stops working halfway), I was thinking of doing the same , replace it with a LED bulb. It needs to be 900 lumens (source - a conversion table) to replace a 100W halogen bulb but actually I think it needs to be twice as much to get a more clear/brighter picture. Didn't found one yet.
To capture a movie, with the highest quality possible, I found out that using a non -shiny white surface (like a piece of A4 paper) to project image on at a very close distance work out the best. This minimize lens effects or defects, gives optimal brightness and sharpness and avoids bluring of the image. The non-shiny surface avoids mirror effects especially when placing a camera in front of the image. If your camera supports the 4:3 aspect ratio, use it. Happy recording!
Its weird how your mom sounds just like my wife...
you in the market for a mechanical video camera that takes film? i got a few different old video cameras
Why did you run it at 5.8 V instead of the 13.5 V it was using?
Too bright means washed out bad, so he probably experimented with the brightness using a bench power supply off camera to see what was the optimum power level?
Is that a 5V 18,000mA flashlight? Thems a lot of batteries. Also, I miss Menards.
I miss Ben's Menard's videos.
However, since I now live in TN instead of MN, I physically miss Menard's as well! 😭
FUN FACT: In Alaska, they have a builders supply store called _Spenard's!_ It's complete coincidence though, as I believe it's name is derived from the original store in Anchorage being on the road named Spendard. When my uncle (from MN) first came to our cabin to go fishing and saw our 5gal bucket saying Spenard's, he thought it was some sort of elaborate joke, where we had the bucket made as a spoof of Menard's 😅
Guide Guide Guide he's the Guidesman and a Guiding he will go.