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Author Topic: Anyone at all familiar with MEO 5X projectors? Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-24-2002 07:14 PM                     Gord, Thats why we modify the Phillips lateral guide rollers in the DP-70 that we install (alot of them too!) to a split version. This way there is no side weave and it also preserves the non contact to the picture area as well. Wear of either the film, or latreral guide roller is irrelevant this way . Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged Per Hauberg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 883 From: Malling, Denmark Registered: Jul 2000 posted 11-29-2002 07:42 PM                        Mark wrote: one COULD wiew the soundtrack DP 70 will never be replaced - nobody does it better - and therefore we (all but Mark, maybe) still CAN wiew the track ! p. By the way: I once saw a pair of Meopta projectors in Warnemuende, East Germany - obvious copy of Bauer U3 - just a bit smaller... Don't remember the type.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-30-2002 11:20 AM                     Per, On most of the machines we put in place we still have the standard reverse scan phillips soundhead but we have been installing JAX Lights and the Todd-AO slits which and making the lateral guide into a two part roller of which half is spring loaded to eliminate lateral weave of the film. Unfortunately the Todd-AO slits are no longer available so we will have to do a complete reverse scan retrofit wihich does eliminate the viewing window. Also, with doing the complete reverse scan mod and the split lateral guide roller I can now do the long awaited SRD scanner as well. There was always way too much weave in the DP-70 soundhead to scan Dolby Digital tracks. Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 11-30-2002 03:52 PM                        Where`s the viewing window? Can we also have a picture of that please?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-30-2002 06:00 PM                     And here it is.....the viewing porthole, window, access, or what have you.....Located right by the wavey lines on the loarge black piece. The big black whoosy on the right is the JAX Light. Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 11-30-2002 06:17 PM                        What do you see when it is in action? Do you see a mirrored image of the analogue track racing by with a reference marking?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-30-2002 07:23 PM                     You see an enlarged image of the sound track(racing by) projected onto the back of the scanning slit. The Stereo cell is just on the other side of the slit. Sorry, don't have a photo of that. Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged Per Hauberg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 883 From: Malling, Denmark Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-02-2002 05:25 AM                        DP 70 lateral weawe is not only too much for SRD. We had to do the split stunt allready when stereo optical was mounted. Small invention - Great difference ! Nice pic's, Mark ! (as allways) Per  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-02-2002 02:39 PM                        Optimum lateral steadiness is usually attained by using a fixed roller flange (guide) on the reference edge of the print, which is the analog soundtrack side on 35mm. The other side of the film should be gently pushed against the fixed roller flange/guide by a spring-loaded flange or guide.  |  IP: Logged

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