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Paul Adsett
Film God
Posts: 5003
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted March 03, 2008 06:56 PM
Watching TV last night, and one of those annoying $19.95 mail order commercials came on (thankfully Billy Mays was not pitching this one!), this time for a cheap razor made by no less than Bell and Howell. We all remember when the name Bell and Howell represented the very best of US engineering design and manufacture. A proud name indeed, that ranked right up there with Paillard Bolex as the producer of the worlds best cine equipment. Who can forget the superb Bell and Howell 8mm equipment, the magnificent 606H projector, and the superb Sportster and Viceroy cameras with the Taylor Hobson lenses. When I was growing up this stuff was the pinnacle of cine. How sad indeed to see this once great US company's name now associated with imported oriental junk items!
-------------------- The best of all worlds- 8mm, super 8mm, 9.5mm, and HD Digital Projection, Elmo GS1200 f1.0 2-blade Eumig S938 Stereo f1.0 Ektar Panasonic PT-AE4000U digital pj
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Patrick Walsh
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 723
From: Christchurch, New Zealand
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted March 04, 2008 03:24 PM
B&H were leaders in their field, I have a 606H machine and it runs very well, I also have a 631 16mm sound machine and it runs just as well as it was new, B&H won the tender back in the 1950s to supply all the schools/educational depts here with B& H machines so there are now lots floating around, I also have the 609 carbon arc model for cinema use it is as heavy as hell and if you were not careful you could burn the film as the light spot was so small and the arc was very hot, b/w film was nopt reccomended on it was it was curl up with the heat as it ran past the gate if you were to run it on a smaller amperage it should be ok, the best machine I believe they made in 16mm was the dual mag/opt recording machine, I cant remember the model mumber but it was in a larger wooden blimp that the other machines and had a dual tube/tansisitor amp. Pat
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