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Topic: I have equipment to trade for films
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Jason Smith
Master Film Handler
Posts: 358
From: Tohoku, Japan
Registered: Oct 2015
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posted May 28, 2016 12:32 AM
I have a equipment that I wanted to trade for films. I’m looking for features, Derann prints, Derann Disney, cartoons, cutdowns, western, sci-fi, certain Blackhawk releases, and more.
Living in Japan, there aren’t too many films I can buy here that I’m interested in. So if anyone has any films that they want to trade that are not faded prints and in good condition, let me know.
Elmo GS-1200 Xenon Optical (Japan 100V,25-50 1.4 lens, it will only reproduce sound for optical films)
Elmo GS-1200 (Japan 100V, 1.1 lens)
Kowa 8Z Anamorphic Lens
Elmoscope II Anamorphic Lens SOLD
Kowa Prominar Anamorphic-8 2X Lens(anamorphic lens for shooting on 8mm, rear barrel is less than 26mm in width)
Elmo Tape Sound FP(synchronizes projector and reel to reel tape)
Elmo Synchro Sound SA-1 (for Stereo Tape Recorder)
Hahnel Kollmatic SD8 film cement splicer
Send me a PM letting me know what you are interested in and what you can offer to trade for it.
All equipment would be shipped from Japan.
[ July 13, 2016, 07:00 PM: Message edited by: Jason Smith ]
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Jason Smith
Master Film Handler
Posts: 358
From: Tohoku, Japan
Registered: Oct 2015
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posted May 28, 2016 05:59 PM
Thank you all for the responses.
Steve, thanks for your offer. I may take you up on it. I've seen quite a few films for sell in the US/UK that I wanted to purchase but shipping kills the deal every time. I think there would be a possibility of changing the line voltage...but I don't see any type of rotary switch like on other machines. As you stated earlier, optical was very big in Japan. Every digest and feature has been optical. Although sometimes, they're were a few companies in Japan that offered digests in optical and magnetic.
Steven, I believe the GS-1200P does have a high and low setting. If you look at the first picture of the link you sent, you can barely see a high/low lamp switch on the Xenon power supply at the bottom of the machine
I know a GS-1200 Optical is a machine that not many people have been able to see, so I wanted to share the very little I know about this machine with pictures.
I've never seen a GS-1200 with all of its original packaging but this one has it. It even has the cardboard insert that goes under the handle.
With no magnetic playback and no recording capabilities, I always feel like somethings missing from the machine. It only has one job...to play back optical 8mm films.
I've heard a lot of speculation as for how many GS-1200s were ever made but this was in regards to non-Xenon GS 1200s and did not take into account the GS-1200s made for the Japanese market . I've found that GS-1200s in Japan have a different serial numbers. The serial number of this Xenon is 552143. The first two numbers signifies its a Xenon machine. I've seen other GS-1200P Xenon's and GS-1200 Xenon's here in Japan that share these first two numbers. This leads me to believe that the 55 number was only for Japanese GS-1200 Xenon(correct me if I"m wrong). That would make this the 2,143 Xenon machine made in Japan. This is the largest Xenon serial number that I've seen here in Japan. I have several reasons to believe this may be one off the last Xenon's ever made.
The film path
With no magnetic playback and no recording, there are a few things missing here.
After popping up the top, one of the first things about this machine that surprised me was how clean it was inside. I've seen quite a few machines that have a lot of dust in them but this machine is pristine. In the picture below, the electronic governor motor for the film transport has a date of January 13, 1989. ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
Does that mean this machine was made post 1989? How long did Elmo continue producing GS-1200s? The plot thickens.
In this picture, you can see the take up motor. When I first saw it, I thought that something looked a little different. I"ve seen the innards of quite a few GS-1200 but never with this type of motor. Usually, I"ve seen copper colored motors with a manufacturing date, but not one quite like this. This is another reason why I believe this machine is a very late model.
I would post more pictures but I just found out there's a forum limit of 8 pictures per post.
If there is no interest in trading it for films, then I may eventually put it up on Ebay. I will let you all know.
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