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Topic: Picking apart the GS1200
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Paul Adsett
Film God
Posts: 5003
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted November 14, 2007 11:34 AM
The GS1200 is the ultimate super 8 projector. It has iconic status among super 8 collectors for a reason - it is a generally superb performer. So criticizing it is like criticizing the San Francisco bay bridge, the Eiffel Tower, or any other great piece of engineering work. But the GS, like everything in life, is not perfect. Just for fun, here are a few of the things I dislike about this otherwise superb machine:
Light spill from the top of the lamphouse. This lights up the room and cuts down on screen contrast. Elmo could have done a much better job of baffling the lamp house cover to block all the light, while permitting free air flow.
That flapping rear roller. Very tricky to adjust properly so that the auto threading release micro-switch is activated but the film does not scrape on the film chute.
The swinging lens mount. I know Kev will say that the screw adjustment enables you to fine tune the focussing across the picture, which is true. But the top to bottom focus is adjusted by those two screws in their sloppy holes on the lens mount- an almost impossible adjustment to carry out properly. Give me the fixed lens mount design of the Eumig's any time- precision machined at the factory, and nothing to go out of alignment.
The sound capstan roller. Elmo's design is a pretty small diameter on both the capstan and the roller.
Its weight. I know -weight means a solid design. But lifting the beast around is no fun. Elmo could have done more to cut the weight down.
-------------------- 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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