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Steven J Kirk
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- posted July 09, 2019 08:19 PM      Profile for Steven J Kirk   Email Steven J Kirk   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I think I will just give the link and save my own opinion for later:

[URL=https://www.amazon.co.uk/JMGO-1895-Design-Cinema-Projector/dp/B07GSSC155/ref=pd_sbs_504_1/262-6589868-2814234?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07GSSC155&pd_rd_r=b4756670-a2af-11e9-96bc -67c8]https://www.amazon.co.uk/JMGO-1895-Design-Cinema-Projector/dp/B07GSSC155/ref=pd_sbs_504_1/262-6589868-2814234?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07GSSC155&pd_rd_r=b4756670-a2af-11e9-96b c-67c8[/URL]

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Bill Phelps
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- posted July 09, 2019 08:49 PM      Profile for Bill Phelps     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
What’s the controversy?

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David Baker
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- posted July 09, 2019 09:05 PM      Profile for David Baker   Email David Baker   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Is it because it's really a video projector ??

Kinda neat though

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Steve Klare
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- posted July 10, 2019 01:26 AM      Profile for Steve Klare   Email Steve Klare   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
What’s great about it is if I used one with my film projectors it would be the oldest looking thing on the table!

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Terry Sills
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- posted July 10, 2019 01:43 AM      Profile for Terry Sills     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I think the only thing controversial is the price!

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Maurice Leakey
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- posted July 10, 2019 02:36 AM      Profile for Maurice Leakey   Email Maurice Leakey   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
£1299 for a rather stupid piece of video equipment masquerading as a film projector.
Probably for a person who has everything and needs a talking point for visitors.
Count me out.

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Lee Mannering
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- posted July 10, 2019 06:58 AM      Profile for Lee Mannering     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Made in China and 500 collisions whatever that means. Oh and left handed operation.

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Steve Klare
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- posted July 10, 2019 07:42 AM      Profile for Steve Klare   Email Steve Klare   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I enjoy video projection, but I'm the first to admit there's something missing compared to projecting film. Maybe this is just an attempt to fake it!

I get the impression the "reels" are stationary...for 1300 bucks you'd think they'd at least go that far.

(I stand corrected: "When playing audio and video the rotary tables are rotating at a constant speed".)

[ July 10, 2019, 08:58 AM: Message edited by: Steve Klare ]

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Leon Norris
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- posted July 10, 2019 10:06 AM      Profile for Leon Norris   Email Leon Norris   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I like the look on this one! The price does not surprise me now days!

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Oliver F. R. Feld
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- posted July 10, 2019 10:52 AM      Profile for Oliver F. R. Feld     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
A funny detail is the last picture at the offer:
the shadow of the girl standing in front of the screen can not be made by the projection of the offered machine. The angle makes no sense.

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Paul Adsett
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- posted July 10, 2019 10:53 AM      Profile for Paul Adsett     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Neither a good video projector nor a working film projector. An expensive piece of junk for the person who has no appreciation of the 'reel' thing. [Frown]

Its a fake picture Oliver, designed to give the unwary buyer the impression of a big bright high quality picture.

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Bill Phelps
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- posted July 10, 2019 12:37 PM      Profile for Bill Phelps     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
It’s cool looking but it looks like a camera with reels/spools attached. At least they are not taking real projectors and turning them into video units....although there are a lot of them at flea markets and in closets.

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Steven J Kirk
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- posted July 10, 2019 06:32 PM      Profile for Steven J Kirk   Email Steven J Kirk   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
It is a bizarre thing and I wouldn't want one but I thought it was worth posting. The oddest part is perhaps the text which is obviously a poor translation from Chinese. The description of the '1895' screening of the famous 'train leaving the station' film has a way too graphic description of how the train might affect the audience. Weird.

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Adrian Winchester
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- posted July 10, 2019 08:52 PM      Profile for Adrian Winchester     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
OK it's not perfect but I'm sure an enterprising Forum member will find a way to make some modifications, turning it into the world's first dual gauge video + 8mm projector!

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Paul Adsett
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- posted July 10, 2019 09:12 PM      Profile for Paul Adsett     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Well it's a weird machine, looks like a camera on one side and more like a projector on the other. If you have to do this sort of thing, the 're-gutting' of a real cine projector would be much more authentic. Something big enough to house a small high quality video projector. Maybe an Elmo GS1200 with a small Epson inside? At least the outside would be very impressive! [Big Grin]

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Adrian Winchester
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- posted July 11, 2019 05:30 AM      Profile for Adrian Winchester     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Paul - I take your point but I suspect the purchasers of this oddity would think that a GS1200 would look too modern to convey the retro aesthetics they are seeking!

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Lee Mannering
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- posted July 11, 2019 07:32 AM      Profile for Lee Mannering     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Ha..not to mention Eumig. Get what you mean tho.
Of course super 8 has always been HD.

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Steven J Kirk
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- posted July 12, 2019 08:28 AM      Profile for Steven J Kirk   Email Steven J Kirk   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I was also reminded of the TV lookalike super 8 machines like the Eumig R 2000. Kind of in reverse... one technology disguised as another.

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Steve Klare
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- posted July 12, 2019 08:43 AM      Profile for Steve Klare   Email Steve Klare   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Good Point!

-like the Kodak Moviedeck: a Super-8 machine trying to masquerade as a slide projector.

(I guess slides were still cool back then...)

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Maurice Leakey
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- posted July 12, 2019 11:06 AM      Profile for Maurice Leakey   Email Maurice Leakey   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Kodak had some strange ideas in the early days of Super 8. They didn't seem to want their new projectors to look like projectors.
https://www.amazon.ca/Kodak-EktaSound-Moviedeck-Super-Projector/dp/B01HQQ3XQ8

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Paul Adsett
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- posted July 13, 2019 08:14 AM      Profile for Paul Adsett     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I hate that fake wood veneer finish on the 70's Kodak super 8 equipment - it looks so cheesy.

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