Nordmende CCS

Nordmende CCS

Nordmende manufactured this machine during the nineteen seventies as a precursor to the home video revolution. It is a fully functional flying-spot telecine device that takes special cartridges filled with Super8/Single8-film and provides VHF or UHF output to a television. The machine could handle both silent and sound super-8 film and featured basic colour adjustment controls. Although the device provided no composite video or component outputs, these are easily located inside the device. The device generates a C.R.T. raster on a phosphorescent screen that is refocussed via a 20mm S-Sonnar 1:1,3 Carl Zeiss manufactured lens through the constantly moving film. Synchronisation is maintained through a photocell that detects the film perforations. The film is transported onto an internal non-removable take-up spool so that film on completion must be fully rewound to be removed from the machine. The special loading cartridge will accept film lengths up to 400 feet on reels similar to those used for old 1/4" reel to reel tape. The device also permitted the dubbing of audio on to magnetically striped Super-8 film stock. Images can be freeze-framed without damage and the sprocketless continuous drive mechanism is very gentle on film stock being both pushed and pulled through the mechanism by rubber rollers.

These devices are exceptionally rare in working order and Nordmende acquired by Thomson and subsequently Philips, no longer exists as a manufacturing brand. Their archive of service manuals was dispersed and now exist solely in private hands.

Transfer speeds: 16.66 and 25 fps (PAL version)

Sound:
 * optical (playback only)
 * magnetical (record and playback; main track only?)

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Prices on eBay:
 * eBay Germany:
 * EUR 154,11 (+ EUR 15,00 shipping) in 07/2007 (PAL version)
 * EUR 220,00 (+ EUR 20,00 shipping) in 07/2019 (PAL version, sold as "not working")

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Link to an archived article about this device from filmshooting.com