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A NEW IMPROVED FLUID HEAD...
THE NEW MILEQIP® NO. M-25
HAS THE FOLLOWING
FEATURES:
*

Smooth Pan & Tilt Loads Carried
Precision Ball

developed

a two headed playback ma¬
chine to be used in editing material
transferred to a disc. The second head

speeds

Bearings and Damped by

Capacity for Two Handles.
MILEQIP®

Tilts 90° in Either Direction.
Pans full 360°.
Load Capacity: 30 Lbs.

NO. M-25

MILLER PROFESSIONAL EQUIPMENT
10816 BURBANK BOULEVARD, NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA 91601
Phone (213) 766-9451
Cable Address: Mileaio -

MCPU-XYZ

ITSM

Multi-axis stepping
motor control

meter/timer

Intervalo-

See MINIMOTION in next

playback or a less expensive playbackonly unit can be used to play back the
disc immediately after it is recorded and
the access time to any frame on the
disc is about half a second. A variety of
playback modes such as still frame,
slow motion or high speed can be se¬

issue.

ANIMATION CAMERA
ANICAM has it!

Fixed-pin registration, independently controlled vari¬
bi-pack capability, rackover viewfinder
with pin-registered removable reticle.
ANICAM does it! The ideal camera for special effects animation, optical
printing, 16 mm or 35 mm film strips, 35 mm slide shows. Time lapse or
any similar motion study applications. Programmable fades, dissolves,
exposure times. Operated by minimotion control or MCPU-XYZ console
and computer of your choice.
able shutter, fwd. and rev. exp.,

lected via

slide

slide
without any
with
or

a standard RS232C serial
port.
In the instructional media field the
interactive disc is rapidly becoming the

preferred medium for education and
training. And discs are finding applica¬
tions in electronic games, point-ofpurchase displays, and information ar¬
chiving and cataloguing.
In addition, optical discs are becom¬
ing increasingly used and thought
of
as a storage peripheral to a

gentle improvements
beautifully made - to last

computer.
Some of the

off

most provacative ap¬
plications have been developed by MIT's
Architecture Machine Group. Perhaps
the greatest lore attached to any single
undertaking is The Aspen Project. Seated

fiddling

screws

lining

holes.

before

Used by all
and Film

for

major Broadcasting
Organisations world wide

than

decade.

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SUPER 8 FLATBED EDITORS
*
*

Available in 4-plate and 6-plate models
4-plate models upgradable to
full 6-plate
Options include: recording capability;
16 mm, split 16 or universal
(16 mm/split 16/super 8)
sound transports

MODEL PGP-6

Super Edit, Section A, 2645 Paulus, Ville St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada H4S 1E9

touch-sensitive monitor, the

gets a real-time drive

through the
City of Aspen by pressing symbols on
the screen. Aspen is a "movie map", an
"exhaustively filmed space" in which
high tech starts to feel like ESP.
Yet even the fate of the R-Type disc
in the consumer market is questionable
so long as it is marketed as a
"playthrough" medium. The backlash of this
strategy misaligns perceptions in the
minds of potential users and dis¬
courages the use of those applications
for which the technology is uniquely
user

( Rycote Microphone Windshields, New Mills,Slad Road, Stroud. Gloucestershire GL51RN, England

control, and the unit is

via

St., Oakland, Ca. 94601, (415) 534-9018

| Rycote

remote

designed for interfacing with computers

J-K CAMERA ENGINEERING, INC.
5101 San Leandro

capability

and 300 TV lines of horizontal resolu¬
tion. The same unit can be used for

Stepping motor control

camera

access

spins at 1800 rpm, is capable of record¬
ing 24,000 frames of NTSC composite
video with a 45 dB signal-to-noise ratio

WiWItmt MINI MOTION
Animation

the random

of a laser disc by enabling one head to
search while the other is playing back.
Panasonic has also introduced a di¬
rect read after write (DRAW) optical
disc recorder which is capable of real
time recording of up to 13.3 minutes of
video on an 8" spiral disc along with 2
channels of audio. The disc, which

Ultra Smooth Fluid.
Positive Lock on Pan & Tilt.

suited. It is

precisely how the distinctive

features of the video disc are exploited
that will determine the breadth and

depth of its future.

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