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Johnny Starr
Junior
Posts: 6
From: London, England
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted June 22, 2005 10:36 AM
Hello all,
I've just joined this forum and wanted to thank the posters at this place for the great assistance that they've given me already by providing the great stock of information that I've waded through whilst waiting for my membership to be activated.
There's lots of clever tips and tricks on this forum and it seems you bods certainly know your projectors!
A bit about me:
I come from a DIY video projector background. By that I mean I've banged away with overhead projectors, condenser lenses, LCD projection panels, nicking the LCD from old TFT monitors, etc, in order to display movies on the wall through PC and digital tuner cards. I love the hobby and ain't giving it up. The quality of picture I can get from bodging together bits of string and doublesided sticky tape for £100 beats most of the low end LCD projectors on the market today.
However ... I've found that I've also developed a rather nostalgic fondness for old movies; mostly non-commercial amateur Super8 films that give a great historical record of the 1960/70's. Also, some of those old Hollywood movies seem to be much more enjoyable when watched on an old Walton, colour, sound film than through DVD on a digital projector. I can't put my finger on why that is.
I found the traditional box of Super8 reels that my dad kept in the loft and an old Eumig jobbie that had been languishing in the garage and got hooked.
I delved into eBay for some cheap and cheerful projectors a while back and ended up with a Royal Sound model (a Giocca, Italy thing) and a Cinerex 727. These work and put a picture on the wall but they don't seem too clever and I'm worried about scratching film so wont put the proper, precious stuff through them.
So, I'm looking to upgrade a little and get something nicer that I can trust and that also has decent sound quality.
I've been vering down the Eumig route following a lot of mentions on this site. I don't want to spend silly money but I want something that does the job.
The Eumig 824 sonomatic seems to be rated as having good sound; can anybody tell me what that rectangular mousemat sized box with white backlight and buttons and numbers around the edges does? It comes with the projector but I've only seen pictures and have no idea what it does.
Also, there doesn't seem to be much chat here about Agfa projectors. From doing a little bit of background research elsewhere it seems that the majority of the internals are the same as some Bauer projectors with just an Agfa badge on. Can anybody confirm this and are they any good?
I've waffled on far too long for my initial posting so I'll cut it here.
And thank's again for all the top notch posts that you guys have put out so that new converts like me can start to get clued up.
Johnny.
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Johnny Starr
Junior
Posts: 6
From: London, England
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted June 23, 2005 05:27 AM
Chaps, I'm overwhelmed. I thought that this much encouragement and warm, welcoming spirit to a complete stranger was something that was reserved for new attendees of an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting! I was wrong - unless, of course, this forum is just a front for an AA type project! ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Many suggestions and useful tips, your missives did contain.
I've stumbled on a few Noris' in my travels too and they seem to be quite kindly thought of amongst these parts; anybody had any dealings with the 342? It's a stereo model and looks to have more knobs to twiddle than you know what to do with! (although in my experience, more knobs on something usually means more chance of something buggering up).
Again, thanks to all who replied; I hope that after I start getting a bit of experience with this lark I'll be able to chuck in my tuppence worth too.
Cheers,
JS
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Jan Bister
Darth 8mm
Posts: 2629
From: Ohio, USA
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted June 25, 2005 09:05 AM
Sadly, I think I have to agree. "I think?" Well, a long long time ago my parents owned a silent super-8 projector, a Porst FP 100. It was only recently that I realized a striking resemblance between that Porst and some of Noris' offerings - right down to the sprocket wheels and film path design.
As for the Porst, it would misthread our film very often and eat it up... We were clueless then, of course, and I was but a wee little child, so my parents kept having it repaired, only for the problem to still persist.
(Then, one day, my Mom tripped over the power cord and the projector fell off its stand and crashed onto the floor. That was its (un)timely demise, and I got my Bauer T450 shortly later since by that time I had completely caught fire on doing animated super-8 films of my own.)
And I do remember one thing - the Porst only had a single claw and not even a loop restorer to go with it so even when it did work, the slightest sprocket damage meant chattering sounds and rolling pictures! Argh!!
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Call me Phoenix. *dusts off the ashes*
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