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Dominique De Bast
Film God

Posts: 4486
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013

posted July 01, 2015 05:49 PM

A few months ago, I spent some money in fixing and servicing my Bauer T 502 which is a nice projector that worths the expense. It has a good 1.2 15.5-28 lens but I found sad, due to a distance shortage problem, that I could not enjoy a larger picture. So I bought a better lens, a 1.1 11-30 lens. From a 1.2 to a 1.1 I was not expecting any noticeable improvment of the brightness (especially as the Bauer T 502 has a 150 watts bulb), so I cannot comment on that as I didn't test this side of the lens. However, what a pleasure to have a larger picture. A good lens is of course not cheap but once you made the invesment you don't regret it. I bought many years ago an Elmo 1.0 lens and it also gives a extra value to Elmo projectors. Just bad that for some makes of projectors the better lenses are so hard to find and so expensive.

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Andrew Woodcock
Film God

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From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012

posted July 01, 2015 11:48 PM

I have both the f1.1 and f1.2 lenses for my T610's Dominique. The f1.1 is the only lens that can fill my 10ft diagonal screen from 23ft when projecting letterbox prints like Grease etc.

The f1.2 is still a very good lens which to my eyes I cannot see any change in brightness to the image projected, but the f1.1 can definitely produce a nice sharper and of course,bigger image.

As you say Dominique, a very worthwhile investment as is any for this particular range of machine.

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