posted June 16, 2013 07:09 PM                   

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unfortunately I didn't bring anything with my 8mm films, just too heavy. I closed my dedicated home theater before leaving Indonesia and packed them up into boxes

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But a litle by litle I built up a small collection, started from the nasty Chinon 330MV. FYI, even for this projector, I did not have a take up reel so two members here, Dino and Terry offered me 600' reel in this topic: My first projector, but no film!

Having lived in the Northern America, it was not satisfying enough If I could not find the best projector in the collectors' world, i.e Elmo GS series. So I kept hunting in local market, until I found a nice GS-800 for an affordable (in fact cheap) in Canada in this topic: My lucky find, Elmo GS-800

But still this GS-800 was not the ultimate projector in my mind, therefore I kept hunting for a GS-1200, and amazingly I found 2 projectors. One was OK price (half than the normal price, due to the fact it was listed under video category ) and the second one was from North Carolina listed in the Craiglist for a price that no one could imagine.

In terms of films, I built up my collection through Ebay due to the fact there was almost no film found in Canada.

However the first collection was in fact from Gian a member from Italy who was so kind to donate some of his unwated films to me in 2010 when I was not with films.

Then the best deal that I ever got was when I was waiting for my large order, ton of films I purchased from a member here (thanks Frank) that include the ultimate, Star Wars and King Kong.

The second largest lot was when my wife bought for me just a week ago, while the third largest was when Trevor Adams (also a member here) gave up his collection and offered all his super 8mm films for NZ$20/feature (ps: many members here were not aware that NZ$20 = US$16....so it was actually even cheaper).

So my collection getting bigger and bigger, and now, it is the time for packing them up heading for Indonesia.

So after 4 years, here what I am going to bring home. They are boxed already:

A. those 200' include TJ, Woody, Disney, etc



B. those 400' include Bick Rogers episodes, Once upon time, etc



C. those Full features include my holly grail Star Wars, King Kong, Disneys, L&H, French Connection, 007 James Bond, etc



Next Monday they will be going into 20' container heading to Jakarta.

From the equipment sides, I will be taking home:

2 GS-800
2 GS-1200
2 ST-1200HD
2 GOKO Editor
and of course my first Chinon 330 MV (will be used for an outdoor not so-important-show or kids toy) and
1 Minolta 7100 (already converted as rewinder only)

But last not least, I am taking these My new toys....vintage items (TV, Radio, etc) too

So Jakarta, here I come.

Bye for now!

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Winbert