My mad restorations skilz... 1976 Nishijin video

[Rival]

All kudos to my wife for a most excellect improvement of video skills.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ3071fQJXc

And the restoration (including playfield replacement) not too shabby either!

Enjoy!

[mxfaiman]

looks good.

(Need to work on the camera angle at the end. Some points you focused at were super pointless. But with every video comes some mistakes.)

[Sid]

looks good.

(Need to work on the camera angle at the end. Some points you focused at were super pointless. But with every video comes some mistakes.)

Thank you Mr. Siskel!!!

[mxfaiman]

Sorry I'm kinda a perfectionist. All little mistakes easily get pointed out to me. And plus I'd just shared my thoughts so he could improve which it has since the last video.

A+ to you james.

[pachiwall]

looks good.

(Need to work on the camera angle at the end. Some points you focused at were super pointless. But with every video comes some mistakes.)

I disagree. Of course you or I might think that since we know what a pachinko machine looks like...what a waste of footage to see what we already recognize. However when I watched it I marveled at how stunning this has been restored to.
Rival, you should make a video like this for each machine you have on your website. As you well know, none of us here would pay what you ask for the machines you sell; a video like this shows the fine detail and thoroughness of your work. Even the country club rich folks who wouldn't know how to clear a ball jam, much less clean, or God forbid, restore a machine!, need to see why they cost so much. Those thumbnails on your website can't make it clear to rich people why they should part with so much of their money. These videos make it abundantly clear. I clean a machine up pretty good, but my work can't hold a candle next to yours! I would like to see a video for NEW PRINCE so I can see how nice (up close) it turned out, since I was watching it from afar and offered it down to where I could afford it (and missed). Now that you have spent so much time and effort on it (and all of our time is very valuable!), it is a thousand times more expensive than I could reach. This would be the only way for me to see it up close. Keep up the good work!

[Rival]

Thanks, pachi, Kind words quite appreciated.

We do intend to do videos of each, the only thing stopping us was getting down an adequate technique for shooting and editing. Neither of us has any photography or video experience, we are learning as we go.

[owennewton]

Thanks, pachi, Kind words quite appreciated.

We do intend to do videos of each, the only thing stopping us was getting down an adequate technique for shooting and editing. Neither of us has any photography or video experience, we are learning as we go.

on the photography side I just helped a friend build a light box to take pics of guitars for his website. It took about an hour and less than $50. it is a 3X3X5 foot 2X4 frame with a sheet stapled to 3 sides, top and bottom. we used two 4 foot shop lights, one on each side with the whitest bulbs we could find and an old set of track lights with soft white CFL's on the top. instant perfect pics with true color and no shadows, as good as the pro pics he was paying $20 each for that took a week to get and we were taking them the same day