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Topic: Projector recomendations please
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Paul Adsett
Film God
Posts: 5003
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted February 05, 2007 12:48 PM
Hi Craig, The hand cranked 9.5mm machines have their own special magic, and seem so appropriate for showing a lot of the vintage 9.5mm material. There's just something awesome about hand cranking these little machines and getting a small flickering yellow motion picture.
I would recommend the Pathe 'Baby', with the 300ft extension arms.
You can also get the'ACE' projector with a 300ft adaptor, but personally I prefer the 'Baby'. You can also get a motor for either of these machines if you prefer. One thing you will need to do is change the lamp socket to use modern halogen lighting, because the old bulbs are no longer made, and the existing wiring and dropping resistance matt could be lethal. Conversion to safe transformer driven 12 volt halogen lighting is not hard to do, and you can get very small solid state transformers which will fit neatly into the existing base of the 'Baby', or bolt to the back side of the 'ACE'. If you get to that point, I can send you my parts drawings, which I designed up myself, and you can get these machined at a local machine shop in the UK, or I could get the parts made here in the USA and you could pay me. Either way, converting the 'Baby' or the 'ACE' to 20 watt halogen lighting is well worth the effort involved, both for safety and much brighter screen illumination. [ February 05, 2007, 03:00 PM: Message edited by: Paul Adsett ]
-------------------- The best of all worlds- 8mm, super 8mm, 9.5mm, and HD Digital Projection, Elmo GS1200 f1.0 2-blade Eumig S938 Stereo f1.0 Ektar Panasonic PT-AE4000U digital pj
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Paul Adsett
Film God
Posts: 5003
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted February 10, 2007 05:53 PM
Reading the UK posts, you would think that a trip to Buckingham Films was a huge undertaking, but its really only about 60 miles north west of London. No matter where you live in the UK you can get there in a few hours! I guess its all relative. Here, in the vast USA, people think nothing of driving 600 miles in one day. I do know that if there were places like Buckingham Films and Derann, just a couple of hours away over here, I would make the effort to get there. The UK collectors are really very lucky!.
-------------------- The best of all worlds- 8mm, super 8mm, 9.5mm, and HD Digital Projection, Elmo GS1200 f1.0 2-blade Eumig S938 Stereo f1.0 Ektar Panasonic PT-AE4000U digital pj
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