8mm Forum


  
my profile | my password | search | faq | register | forum home
  next oldest topic   next newest topic
» 8mm Forum   » 8mm Forum   » BFCC Rumour

- UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!    
Author Topic: BFCC Rumour
Paul Adsett
Film God

Posts: 5003
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003

- posted March 22, 2006 09:14 AM      Profile for Paul Adsett     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Well apparently it's that time of the year when trouble makers start rumours about the forthcoming BFCC(May 20 in London). The version I have heard goes something like this:
There is going to be a 5 pound surcharge, above and beyond the cost of the admission ticket. The reason stated for this is that the organizers are going to be issuing sunglasses to protect people's eyes from the brilliant white light of John Clancy's HTI converted Elmo GS1200. Purchase of these glasses is going to be compulsory, Keith Wilton will be standing at the entrance of the Ealing Town Hall, passing them out as you enter. My question is this. Why can't people bring their own sunglasse's and avoid this unreasonable surcharge?

--------------------
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

 |  IP: Logged
Alan Rik
Film God

Posts: 2211
From: New York City, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

- posted March 22, 2006 11:09 AM      Profile for Alan Rik   Email Alan Rik   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I hope Paul Foster brings the Fumeo 500 Watt Xenon Super 8 machine with him. Its on his website..I want it..but...the shipping alone would cost 3 x GS1200'S!! [Eek!]
Only Ignacio Benedetti has one that I know of.. and his is modded with Stereo Heads for Playback. I think he told me it weighs around 200 lbs..

 |  IP: Logged
John Clancy
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1954
From: Cornwall
Registered: Jun 2003

- posted March 23, 2006 03:18 AM      Profile for John Clancy   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Good one Paul.

--------------------
British Film Collectors Convention home page www.bfcc.biz. The site is for the whole of the film collecting hobby and not just the BFCC.

 |  IP: Logged
Ugo Grassi
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 506
From: Avellino (Italy)
Registered: Dec 2003

- posted March 23, 2006 05:11 AM      Profile for Ugo Grassi   Email Ugo Grassi   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
The Fumeo 9145 (X500) gives the same light on the screen of the GS1200 HTI. I made some test with these wonderful machines, both on the same table, to project on the same screen.
The light output is the same because the dicroic mirror of the Osram HTI has a better performance of the mirror inside the X500. About the frame stability there are not differences.

--------------------
Bye
Ugo

 |  IP: Logged
Jean-Marc Toussaint
Film God

Posts: 2392
From: France
Registered: Oct 2004

- posted March 23, 2006 05:29 AM      Profile for Jean-Marc Toussaint   Author's Homepage   Email Jean-Marc Toussaint   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Paul, are you bringing your laser protection goggles? [Big Grin]

--------------------
The Grindcave Cinema Website

 |  IP: Logged
Paul Adsett
Film God

Posts: 5003
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003

- posted March 23, 2006 08:52 AM      Profile for Paul Adsett     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
No, Laser Goggles are not sufficiently dense. Based on the comments about John's GS1200, I think welding glasses would be a better choice! [Big Grin]

--------------------
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

 |  IP: Logged
Jean-Marc Toussaint
Film God

Posts: 2392
From: France
Registered: Oct 2004

- posted March 23, 2006 09:07 AM      Profile for Jean-Marc Toussaint   Author's Homepage   Email Jean-Marc Toussaint   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I thought so...

Ugo, you should try to come this time...

--------------------
The Grindcave Cinema Website

 |  IP: Logged
Douglas Meltzer
Moderator

Posts: 4554
From: New York, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

- posted March 23, 2006 09:29 AM      Profile for Douglas Meltzer   Email Douglas Meltzer   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Please do not treat this topic lightly!

If you insist on watching a film via the dangerous "Clancy Conversion", special Elmo viewers made of either aluminised polyester or a very dark polymer material are available but these cannot be guaranteed to be totally safe. Never look at the screen directly without proper viewing glasses. Sunglasses do not work -- you will damage your eyes permanently if you try to experience the brilliance of HTI projection with regular sunglasses. But even with these special glasses, experts advise watching the screen only for brief periods of time. Digests, shorts or trailers are preferable to full length features

If the glasses are at all damaged -- with scratches or holes in the protective coating -- do not use them.

Doug

--------------------
I think there's room for just one more film.....

 |  IP: Logged
Andrew Wilson
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 784
From: dundonald,belfast,co.antrim,northern ireland.
Registered: Jan 2006

- posted March 23, 2006 10:38 AM      Profile for Andrew Wilson   Author's Homepage         Edit/Delete Post 
is it not worth the extra outlay to see this awesome monster in action?.i know i would.andy.

 |  IP: Logged
Kevin Faulkner
Film God

Posts: 4071
From: Essex UK
Registered: Jun 2003

- posted March 23, 2006 03:49 PM      Profile for Kevin Faulkner         Edit/Delete Post 
So will you be there for the next one Andy?

Kev.

--------------------
GS1200 Xenon with Elmo 1.0...great combo along with a 16-CL Xenon for that super bright white light.

 |  IP: Logged
Jan Bister
Darth 8mm

Posts: 2629
From: Ohio, USA
Registered: Jan 2005

- posted March 25, 2006 11:44 AM      Profile for Jan Bister   Email Jan Bister   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
You're serious, all of you, aren't you? [Eek!] At first I thought all the talk about sunglasses was just one big joke.

I gotta ask... if the GS1200 HTI's light output is so dangerous, why bother in the first place? (And how is it that looking at the screen may damage your eyes, but the tiny super-8 film can run past the gate without getting scorched by the massive light throughput, even if it's just for 1/24 of a second?)

I feel like I'm being ignorant, so I apologize in advance.... but please enlighten me... [Smile]

--------------------
Call me Phoenix. *dusts off the ashes*

 |  IP: Logged
John Clancy
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1954
From: Cornwall
Registered: Jun 2003

- posted March 26, 2006 12:09 PM      Profile for John Clancy   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
No Jan, it's all a joke.

Where are my solar eclipse shades?

--------------------
British Film Collectors Convention home page www.bfcc.biz. The site is for the whole of the film collecting hobby and not just the BFCC.

 |  IP: Logged
Jan Bister
Darth 8mm

Posts: 2629
From: Ohio, USA
Registered: Jan 2005

- posted March 26, 2006 01:49 PM      Profile for Jan Bister   Email Jan Bister   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Blast it!! For once, y'all fooled me!! [Eek!]

--------------------
Call me Phoenix. *dusts off the ashes*

 |  IP: Logged
Winbert Hutahaean
Film God

Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

- posted March 27, 2006 05:24 AM      Profile for Winbert Hutahaean     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Earlier April fool???

--------------------
Winbert

 |  IP: Logged
Jan Bister
Darth 8mm

Posts: 2629
From: Ohio, USA
Registered: Jan 2005

- posted March 27, 2006 09:15 AM      Profile for Jan Bister   Email Jan Bister   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
If this is what Late-March Fool's looks like, I'm afraid to see April Fool's [Wink]

--------------------
Call me Phoenix. *dusts off the ashes*

 |  IP: Logged
Jean-Marc Toussaint
Film God

Posts: 2392
From: France
Registered: Oct 2004

- posted March 27, 2006 12:07 PM      Profile for Jean-Marc Toussaint   Author's Homepage   Email Jean-Marc Toussaint   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Be afraid, Jan, be *very* afraid...

--------------------
The Grindcave Cinema Website

 |  IP: Logged


All times are Central  
   Close Topic    Move Topic    Delete Topic    next oldest topic   next newest topic
- Printer-friendly view of this topic
Hop To:

Visit www.film-tech.com for free equipment manual downloads. Copyright 2003-2019 Film-Tech Cinema Systems LLC

Powered by Infopop Corporation
UBB.classicTM 6.3.1.2