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Clive Casey
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 112
From: Barrow-in-Furness, UK
Registered: Dec 2017
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posted July 01, 2018 02:54 PM
Thanks for the input Maurice, and thanks for the kind offer Chris. I am in France at the moment, back in the UK in just over a week, but thought I would test the water. Once I get an idea in my head, it’s hard to get rid of it. Even though I think digital is amazing, there is nothing like film. I still remember my school days, 50 years ago, when the science teacher used to show 16mm films at lunch times. They were made by BP and Essie and the likes of Ford Motors. But I think it was the whir of the projector that I loved. The one day the geography teacher snapped a film and didn’t know what to do.Another pupil said to the teacher, oh, Clive will fix it for you. So I was sent for, and he said, please can you fix it? So I took it home, spliced it, and took it back to school the next day, the look of relief on the teachers face, was a picture. Oh how I miss those days, but then I must just be a silly old fool. Regards to all silly old fools like me.
Clive
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Rob Koeling
Master Film Handler
Posts: 399
From: Brighton, UK
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted July 05, 2018 04:43 AM
I would say that any of these late, high-end model machines are good and they all have their own little plusses and minuses.
Barry, you mention the rollers. It is true, you have to change them before they go to goo, otherwise you have a problem. But, it only happens ones in every 30 years or so and you can easily do it yourself.
The Eiki's have this rubber in the lens assembly that deteriorates and needs to be replaced at some point. Again, a minor repair. We are lucky that there are still relatively large numbers of these machines around and there is a wealth of knowledge to share to do most of these simple repairs ourselves. I am worried about the more complicated repairs, like the worm gear replacement and things like adjustment of claw and/or shutter timing. The number of people who are comfortable doing that is getting smaller.
I suppose preference is partly based on what you came across first. My first contact with 16mm projectors was in a film society where we used Eiki SL's. Those machines ran for at least 15 years, at least 5 hours a week, without any issues. They became (mostly) obsolete when we acquired a 35mm machine 25 years ago, but I am sure that we can pull the Eiki's out of the cupboard and (after a bit of a clean) threat a film and go.
I've mostly had Eiki's for myself since. I have had a Bauer, a B&H, and several Elmo CL's, but always an Eiki as my main machine.
- Rob
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