Quibix, ive just aquired the same projector as you have in this video, and i was wondering how you clean the filmgate on this model? On the non-slotloading projectors the lens swings out and lets you clean the filmgate, but nothing swings out on this model, help please?
Thank you for helping me with this. Its made it alot easier for me to clean the filmgate....now im just wondering how to get more access to the pressure plate "/ ....
@joshma8 On mine I use a small toothbrush. Open the main door to the sprocket mechanism, open the slot loading lever. Carefully stick the toothbrush down into the gate and brush using up and down motion. Reverse the bush to both sides of the gate. This is the only way I've figured out to do a general cleaning without dissasembling the entire lens housing system.
wow, nice machine! The health professor at my school recently used one of these type of projecters to show us a film. My class was more intrested in the machine rather than the film lol
Whoah, that's really cool. I've grown up in a digital world and I've never really seen a projector like that. I know they're used in cinemas/theatres, but you don't really think about it much. Cool video.
Oh, yeah! Each frame of analogue movie film is an individual photograph, like one would take witha s still camera. Most 24fps film cameras use a 180deg shutter, which works out to the equivalent of 1/50 shutter on your average Pentax, Leica, Canon, etc. Beyond that, everything else is identical to still photography. Composition, depth-of-field, focus; those all apply to either still or motion photography.
Gawd, but I've encountered those types as well! I picked up some rickety, old monster from a second-hand store somewhere, and this thing had to have one of the first 16mm with sound! One had to mount a pitched battle for loading and, though it was a portable, I bet that projector weighed 40#! Once I got my sleek, li'l Ekei, I donated the old-timer to my Film school's museum!
Isn't there something almost magical about film? I mean, sure, video/digital & all that are wonderful (and convenient as all get-out as well, in their own way), but there's just something special about the little photos & being able to actually handle them! Not only that but, with film, one can be 1000 miles from the nearest battery/power source & can, with the right stock, still shoot by firelight with a spring-wound camera!
very quiet
legoman6986 1 year ago
It must be a 80's Bell and Howell Filmosound manual feed as oppose to the automatic feed.
Rlotpir1972 2 years ago
That's the monster, all right!
quibix 2 years ago
Quibix, ive just aquired the same projector as you have in this video, and i was wondering how you clean the filmgate on this model? On the non-slotloading projectors the lens swings out and lets you clean the filmgate, but nothing swings out on this model, help please?
joshma8 2 years ago
I dunno! I haven't had occasion to clean my film gate, but I'll look into it & get back to you.
quibix 2 years ago
Thank you
joshma8 2 years ago
Hello, again. Looks to me like if you all slip the bulb out & set the Load lever to 1, it makes access room.
quibix 2 years ago
Thank you for helping me with this. Its made it alot easier for me to clean the filmgate....now im just wondering how to get more access to the pressure plate "/ ....
joshma8 2 years ago
@joshma8 On mine I use a small toothbrush. Open the main door to the sprocket mechanism, open the slot loading lever. Carefully stick the toothbrush down into the gate and brush using up and down motion. Reverse the bush to both sides of the gate. This is the only way I've figured out to do a general cleaning without dissasembling the entire lens housing system.
starwars21 1 year ago
wow, nice machine! The health professor at my school recently used one of these type of projecters to show us a film. My class was more intrested in the machine rather than the film lol
EXcaliBUrNIEntYThrEe 3 years ago
at 1:09, what happened? did you lose your loop or something??
joshma8 3 years ago
Whoah, that's really cool. I've grown up in a digital world and I've never really seen a projector like that. I know they're used in cinemas/theatres, but you don't really think about it much. Cool video.
davidburch 3 years ago
Oh, yeah! Each frame of analogue movie film is an individual photograph, like one would take witha s still camera. Most 24fps film cameras use a 180deg shutter, which works out to the equivalent of 1/50 shutter on your average Pentax, Leica, Canon, etc. Beyond that, everything else is identical to still photography. Composition, depth-of-field, focus; those all apply to either still or motion photography.
quibix 3 years ago
Gawd, but I've encountered those types as well! I picked up some rickety, old monster from a second-hand store somewhere, and this thing had to have one of the first 16mm with sound! One had to mount a pitched battle for loading and, though it was a portable, I bet that projector weighed 40#! Once I got my sleek, li'l Ekei, I donated the old-timer to my Film school's museum!
quibix 3 years ago
great machine! nice fast threading. the ones i have you have to spend much more time threading it up.
16mmDJ 3 years ago 2
Isn't there something almost magical about film? I mean, sure, video/digital & all that are wonderful (and convenient as all get-out as well, in their own way), but there's just something special about the little photos & being able to actually handle them! Not only that but, with film, one can be 1000 miles from the nearest battery/power source & can, with the right stock, still shoot by firelight with a spring-wound camera!
quibix 4 years ago
very nice, i am from Slowakia and have 16 mm projector meoclub 16 electronic from Meopta-Prague, it is my hobby.
bamiso 4 years ago 2