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Topic: Paillard Bolex M8 Addiction...Help!
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Gerald Santana
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1060
From: Cottage Grove OR
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted March 31, 2013 07:31 PM
Fredrick,
I agree, the M8 is a beautiful projector, and the smell of it when on is kind of like perfume. Folks, I'm not kidding. It has a great lens (interchangeable with 1.2 lens), vertical and manual loading, the manual rewind, adjustable speed, inexpensive lamp...etc.
The film that goes in has to be clean or there is a slightly shaky picture but, there is a loop restore. Still, a cleaned a lubricated film runs so smoothly and you can use a sound system with it plus long play units...I'm in the process of building one for it.
Luckily, I paid considerably less for mine, it was in mint condition and I traveled about 30 miles out to pick it up. I'll say a fair price is between $50 to $150, depending on condition. These days, there are more collectors coming into the hobby so, the price may be driven up based on these very forum threads that praise the machine so much.
-------------------- http://lostandoutofprintfilms.blogspot.com/
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