I've been working on getting my elmo 16-CL working after discovering a few years ago that the rollers had turned to goo. Almost everything is cleaned up and good to go, just waiting on the rollers now from Urbanski.
I was shopping around the other day for spare bulbs, and noticed there are a couple different options out there regarding "working distance" to the film. Some are 35mm/1.378 in, some are 31.25mm/1.238 in. Can someone tell me which is correct, and if there are specific brands of lamps that are better focused than others, have longer life, etc?
I've been hoping that someone would come up with a good LED substitute at some point, but alas, they don't seem to exist yet. I had an idea to get some sort of reflector and mount a bunch of individual led's around the edge of it, pointing towards the middle of the reflector to get the beam focused, but perhaps there's a more clever way that requires less trouble.
I was shopping around the other day for spare bulbs, and noticed there are a couple different options out there regarding "working distance" to the film. Some are 35mm/1.378 in, some are 31.25mm/1.238 in. Can someone tell me which is correct, and if there are specific brands of lamps that are better focused than others, have longer life, etc?
I've been hoping that someone would come up with a good LED substitute at some point, but alas, they don't seem to exist yet. I had an idea to get some sort of reflector and mount a bunch of individual led's around the edge of it, pointing towards the middle of the reflector to get the beam focused, but perhaps there's a more clever way that requires less trouble.
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