Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have the second version Sept with the rounded corners around the internal spring. Mine runs like a clock, though I have not yet shot film through it. I think it gives you about 250 still shots or 10 seconds of filming, and I was told that the original 1930.s Robin Hood movie scene with a hawk flying low over a lake was shot with a Sept. The name "Seven" in French stood for the seven functions that the camera could do, which others on the LUG have documented so well. Gary Todoroff www.northcoastphotos.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+datamaster=northcoastphotos.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+datamaster=northcoastphotos.com@leica-users.org]On Behalf Of Douglas Sharp Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 4:09 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] help with identification --2.1-- So there's no point in trying to find the numbers one to six, "Sept" was the name of the distributor. More on the Debrie "Sept", with a couple of contradictions,gleaned from the "Jessop (Hove) International Blue Book 1990-1991" (price of the camera at that time around 225 USD). combined half-frame still camera,movie camera, projector and contact printer. Berthiot style 50mm 3,5 lens, rotary shutter 1/60th. single exposure or sequence settings. invented by Guiseppe Tartara (1923) 250 exposures on perforated 18x24mm film, cartridge held 17 meters (feet?) of film. Marketed by Societe Francis Sept. First version with flat spring driven motor unit, second with rounded enlarged spring wound motor. cheers Douglas Thinkofcole@aol.com wrote: > > Here's more info on the Web about the Sept camera, covering some of the same > info I sent earlier in French: > "The first commercially successful spring-motor drive camera capable of > taking still exposures on cine film was the French-made Debrie Sept, a > combination cine and still camera, introduced in 1922. The Sept camera produced > half-frame size photographs on 35mm cine film and was capable of taking stills and > movies. The camera could also be adapted for use as a a movie projector. > The Sept camera was based on a patent purchased by Debrie from the Turin, > Italy Fact company. Fact had introduced the patented Autocinephot camera a few > years earlier. The Autocinephot did not sell well. But in its improved > incarnation, the Sept, manufactured and marketed by Debrie, it was quite > successful, selling for around twenty years." > regards, bob cole > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.11 - Release Date: 5/16/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.11 - Release Date: 5/16/2005