F24 camera

Great work, look forward to seeing more on this.

Nixnav, welcome. Keep up the good work. There’s also an aerial camera group on FB. Interesting to see it all hooked up and working. Somebody needs to insert a digital reader into a F24 as the combination of lens and resolution would be incredible. Reinstalled in a vintage aircraft, you could identify the type of sausage in a hot dog being eaten by a spectator, beaming down live footage…

I made a mistake with the Capping blind pinion by meshing it with the driving gear ring instead of the Shutter/film wind gear. In all my reading (!) and viewing of the exploded diagrams I mistook the positioning of the pinion. Now its right and I have correct operation. I still do not know what the night photography shutter would be like yet, will have to think about it. Would it have simply been a much wider shutter ie 5 7/8 inches?
 

Here’s a list of quite useful sites.
https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/1078
George Bubb’s course notes on cameras and controller type 35, some references to night photography mods. 

https://tailendcharlietedchurch.wordpress.com/raf-stations/77-squadron-…
Details of photoflash bomb, camera shutter timing, film winding, warning light sequence etc.

https://www.xnatmap.org/adnm/ops/manuals/F24%20manual.pdf
F24 and Controller manuals in black and white.

https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/research/RAF-Historical-Society-…
Reference to early F24 camera MK I using ‘louvre’ shutter with photocell activaton.
 

Hi, I’m new to Key.aero, please be kind!
I have a Controller 35 type 20, I’ve made up a wiring loom and connected it to a Type F (high speed) gearbox from the F24 camera. I want to run this setup for night time photographs taken from a bomber during WW2. 
So far I have made a shutter assembly out of sheet aluminium and perspex, using rubber bands and string instead of capping and shutter blinds and the sprung loaded take up rollers.
So far the capping blind seems to reset too quickly in the sequence. maybe the sequence should be modified, perhaps by modding the controller or some extra hardware in the gearbox?
I have read that there were several types of shutter, and possibly hardware mods made to enable the long exposure. I’m sure the hardware I have is later than the electronic photocell and relay method used early on.
I have a lot of information gleaned from the web, I will try and list the sources in another post, for now I’ll back off and see what sort of response there is!

camera mountings

Tim ,the castings for the support frame joints and the main camera supports are in the process of being made right now

geoff

Just after one final piece, can anyone help me find a set of mounting rails or even parts of the frame? Looks like scafolding poles to me.

Thanks,

Tim.

How many would sir like?

PM sent.

Bruce