[Frameworks] Oxberry Master Series Animation stand (model 5442) assembly

[Warren Cockerham]

Ruth (all):

Over here at Bennington College, ours is outfitted for 35mm and 16mm. It
also still has (what appears to be) a fully functioning stepper motor.
We're also hoping to outfit ours for a DSLR (or whatever future digital
cameras are best for stop motion) and I'm definitely hoping to make it an
interchangeable system. I've been reading about folks integrating homemade
step motors with Dragon Frame using Arduinos. I'd be interested to hear if
anyone has a fully functional Oxberry, with DSLR, and an integrated with
Dragon Frame. I'm much more excited about the film possibilities but I know
we'll need this to work digitally for practical purposes.

I'll probably try to visit USC when I'm in Los Angles in April. I also plan
to contact MassArt to look at theirs the next time I'm in Boston. When
Jodie Mack gets back to Dartmouth, I'll make the short trip over there too
to see what they've got. But I have a feeling this one is probably a bigger
model than Dartmouth and MassArt's -- I think MassArt has the Filmmaker
series rather than the double-pole master series that we have.

I'm sure there are some folks on this list that have worked with this exact
machine when it was at the Atlantic Filmmaker's Coop, We're still
assembling it (sort of blindly). I don't expect it to be fully functional
until the fall. If I don't figure it all out before the fiscal year rolls
over here this summer, we'll probably be looking to work with a technician
sometime in  late summer. DIY until then....

all the best,
Warren


On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Ruth Hayes <randomruth at comcast.net> wrote:

> Yes, that is Evergreen's Oxberry manual, adapted for our particular
> machine. It's currently under a dust cover, protected from a remodel that
> worked around it, and waiting for a retrofit so we can mount a DSLR on it.
>  The current set-up has a 16mm Mitchell camera and Spectrum Motion Control
> system running on a very old PC with MS DOS.  We will remove the old
> computer system and hopefully put in stepper motors with a more manual
> control similar to what it had originally.  I had the opportunity to look
> at the Oxberrys at USC last June that have DSLRs on them, but can also be
> converted back to film if that's what a student wants to shoot.  We support
> 16mm production in the media curriculum, so that's likely.
>
> I'd appreciate hearing from others who are messing around with
> retrofitting animation stands, particularly Oxberrys.  Please contact me at
> my Evergreen email: hayesr at evergreen.edu
>
> Ruth Hayes
> Member of the Faculty, The Evergreen State College
>
> http://www.randommotion.com
>
> blogs.evergreen.edu/hayesr
>
> On Feb 7, 2014, at 4:33 PM, George, Sherman wrote:
>
>  There is an operations manual at:
> http://www.evergreen.edu/electronicmedia/docs/oxberry_manual.pdf
> And oxberry tech support is at:
>
> *Technical support for Oxberry**products is available Monday through
> Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time.*
>
> *Phone: (201)-935-3000 <%28201%29-935-3000>*
>
> *Fax: (201)-935-0104 <%28201%29-935-0104>*
>
> *e-mail: techsupport at oxberry.com <techsupport at oxberry.com>*
>
>    I hope that helps.
> Sherman
>
>
>  On Feb 7, 2014, at 2:32 PM, Warren Cockerham wrote:
>
>   Hi all..
>
> I was wondering if anyone on the list has any literature on (or images of)
> an Oxberry Master Series Animation stand model 5442. I'm currently
> assembling one that was purchased from the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative
> over the summer. I don't have the money to hire a tech from Oxberry. We've
> got it about halfway assembled using some photographs as reference. But,
> I'm afraid we'll need an official manual to proceed. Does anyone have one?
> Does anyone have detailed photographs of the machine assembled?
>
>  thanks in advance...
>  Warren
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