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Author Topic: Using a platter with 35mm Edison projector? Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 01-12-2003 04:27 PM                     John wrote: quote: How about upgrading a Lumiere machine to handle IMAX? Do you mean the Lumiere 75mm format, with a frame size quite similar to IMAX, but with the film running vercically? I've never seen any pictures of the equipment. Then he wrote: quote: 3-strip 8mm Cinerama? That one's been done John! Three standard 8 projectors; sometime in the '60s or '70s, I think. I never saw it mysely, but did see a photograph oh the equipment in a magazine. I think I would prefer the 35mm version. My first law of film technology: 'Anything weird you can think of to do with film, somebody will have already done'  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-12-2003 04:37 PM                     I agree with Richard Fowler....Why not? Go for it. If we sit on our butts, nothing is accomplished, other than the mid-section secretary bulge... .  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 01-12-2003 05:13 PM                    I like the idea of running a current film on an ancient projector using a modern lens. Go ahead and mount it on an only slightly less ancient soundhead updated with a stereo cell or reverse scanner and go ahead and bolt a timecode reader or digital penthouse atop it as well. The point is that the technology of film is in the emulsion and the lens. It was always future proof and the equipment life measured in decades. An ancient projector will still give the audience a state-of-the-art experience. What digital cinema system can make that claim?  |  IP: Logged

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