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Topic: A Scratch - Elmo Film Guide Wear (Correct?)
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Andrew Woodcock
Film God
Posts: 7477
From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012
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posted September 22, 2016 07:19 AM
You're right of course Tom, there are.
My only issue with continually buying more and more projectors and just simply discarding a faulty one or perhaps keeping it for spares, is simply that I look upon these things like used cars.
By that I mean, I tend to buy my cars from nearly new, say around six months old, and then keep them for as long as they can last before costing me a fortune to maintain.
I prefer this method simply because, this way, you become very very familiar with its behaviours, you know the entire history of the car and all of its repairs and I've found by using this method of ownership throughout my adult life so far, it represents the best value for money for me so far as cars are concerned.
Similarly, once I've owned a projector a number of years and learned all of its quirks and behaviours, I find myself enjoying this familiarity and then I know what it needs and when if things are less than perfect.
By continually swapping machines, I don't believe I'd ever feel entirely comfortable in the manner I do today by sticking with what I know and trust in.
For me personally, I'd rather just have 3 or 4 that I continue to maintain rather than regularly swapping and changing models.
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Andrew Woodcock
Film God
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From: Manchester Uk
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posted September 25, 2016 05:31 AM
The points David made earlier in his last two posts here, mirror my own experiences entirely with these projectors over many different decades.
David has tried his luck seven times, I tried mine only five before drawing up the very same conclusion as David.
I've experienced twin dots in picture exactly as David describes, I've experienced green lines. I've experienced green lines being placed permanently until the projector is halted, I've experienced intermittent lines being placed on the picture until halted.
I never once felt comfortable sitting more than two feet away from the projector knob. You just never knew the minute.
Sometimes I was lucky, they occurred before the gate, other times, I wasn't so fortunate and noticed nothing until I ran the film again on another occasion.
All in all, I struggled regularly to keep a constant lower and upper loop at times, regularly the lower loop would be lost for no apparent reason but was especially prone after a splice.
These experiences were exactly the same when the machines were in their relative infancy as when they were 30 years plus old.
David otherwise liked the overall design of the ST1200.
Aside from the overall build quality, I had many other moans regarding these. Not least because of the level of wow and speed variation.
In the end, I simply gave up with them.
It's a decision I've never regretted once since.
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