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Posted by David Guest (Member # 2791) on 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

Posted by Ken Finch (Member # 2768) on 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]

Posted by Lee Mannering (Member # 728) on 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.

Posted by Allan Broadfield (Member # 2298) on 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.

Posted by David Guest (Member # 2791) on 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

Posted by Allan Broadfield (Member # 2298) on 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.

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on September 24, 2013, 04:00 AM:

I am also happy with my 9,5 Buckingham.

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