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David Guest
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1704
From: Lancashire, UK
Registered: Oct 2011

posted September 20, 2013 02:25 PM

9.5 elf projecter just sold on ebay £1078.00 well done to the seller is it drinks all round

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Ken Finch
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Herne Bay, Kent. U.K.
Registered: Oct 2011

posted September 22, 2013 12:40 PM

Congratulations to to seller, yes, but more than the cost of a new one from Buckingham!! Not quite as bad as many of the silly prices reached or asked for many other 9.5mm projectors and films. Ken Finch [Roll Eyes]

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Lee Mannering
Film God

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From: The Projection Box
Registered: Nov 2006

posted September 23, 2013 04:32 AM

The Elf claw quick pull down is pretty much a no go area for vintage films as many have found out the hard way and I eventually retuned all my films to project only on a Pathe Vox which is extremely kind to sound films, if upgraded to modern lighting and a new amplifier delivers a good performance in the home even 75 years on... Have a Bolex lens in mine which just about tops it off.

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Allan Broadfield
Master Film Handler

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From: Bromley, Kent
Registered: Nov 2010

posted September 23, 2013 08:57 AM

The last prices for newly converted Buckingham 9.5 in 2010, were-
Optical £795
Optical/mag playback £975
Silent (classic RM) £525.
They've stopped manufacture now.

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David Guest
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1704
From: Lancashire, UK
Registered: Oct 2011

posted September 23, 2013 11:28 AM

I agree with lea if pathe could not make a 9.5 no one could in my opinion best stick to the one which has been tried and tested. I still run a black debrie now and again which my father bought new 60 years ago and its still as good as ever

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Allan Broadfield
Master Film Handler

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From: Bromley, Kent
Registered: Nov 2010

posted September 24, 2013 03:25 AM

I'm surprised at the experience of Lee with the Elf conversions, I don't have any personal experience, but have seen them in operation at the 9.5 group and assumed that they had a good reputation, especially as 9.5 prints will naturally be old.

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Dominique De Bast
Film God

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From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013

posted September 24, 2013 04:00 AM

I am also happy with my 9,5 Buckingham.

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Dominique

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