So it does exist!!!

[Erik Snel]

some years ago on the old forum there was talk about the Eumig 850 Xenon superlux, no one had ever seen one and after it was presented at the Photokina it disapeared. turns out, the Eumig museum has it! and so it does exist! it does look different from the onde picture that floats around on the internet. but here is the picture from the museum, Enjoy!

[Mark Mander]

Wonder how many were made?? Mark

[Lee Mannering]

That's not how I remember the 850 in the early 1970's. It was a 810 model white and black also on show at the Kent photo/film show a little bit later.
This could be version II which is news to me particularly being all black and a later model.

Also a curiosity is it has on the 800ft Bolex extending arms.

I would hazard a guess from what I know of the range and dates this is just slightly prior to the Sonomatic probably 1976/7 particularly with the larger focus knob and tone controls.
So interesting I'll go and have a lay down for this exciting news for this Eumig devotee

The new picture in all black throws a small spanner in the works for my Eumig HID lamp conversion and I'm following the original 850 in white and black with a new sloping lamphouse. The is all black one looks like someone bolted a metal box on the front.

[Michael O’Regan]

Interesting.
What’s that plug dangling near the take-up?

[Paul Adsett]

Must plug into an external black box that powers up the Xenon lamp.

[Brian Fretwell]

Yes I recognised it as that from the B&H 16mm Marc 300 machine I used once, the projector would sit on top of the (rather large) power supply with that short lead connecting it.

[Dominique De Bast]

What is the spools capacity ?

[Maurice Leakey]

Lee says above that the spool capacity is 800 feet.


Maurice

[Dominique De Bast]

Thanks for the precision about the arms. I wonder why Eumig didn't sell this model at "large" scale.

[Lee Mannering]

Yes they are the arms from the Bolex SM80 Programmatic 1977 which enabled you to use 800ft spools by pressing the red dot to extend. Clever.



Brian's info about the lamp power supply connector is really helpful, so it looks like they had a Marc300 in it then. I don't remember the lamp power connector on the black and white version but it was a long time ago now.

[Erik Snel]

yes! this is the picture everyone knows, so seeing one in all black is new to me. i know for a fact that it was a personal projector owned by the Vockenhuber family and it came from their house into the museum. The granddaughter of karl Vockenhuber who founded eumig and her husband are very involved in the museum. very nice lee you spotted the sm80 spool arms, i had not seen it yet. did anyone see the black and white version personally in real life?