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Author Topic: Differences between Super Lume-X and Super 80 Lamphouses? Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-21-2004 09:30 PM                     Yea, I would certainly agree on those reflectors. They are huge and the number of them that could be coated at once would be very limited indeed. For those lamphouses you would have also had to match both the other mirros sets as well as both heat filters. What ever you did sure workled well as the lamps at M.A.L. sure match very well. Mark  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 08-22-2004 01:36 AM                        quote: Mark Gulbrandsen The other interesating thing he mentioned was that he could easily come up with a metal reflector that could do exactly the same thing the Canadian conversion was accomplishing but at alot lower price. So why hasn't he, if it's so easy and at a competitive price? Now if you're going to identify the existing conversion by a country, at least call it Quebecian.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-22-2004 09:51 AM                     Meopta apparently now prvides the christie reflector and I have used there glass one as a retrofit to several older vertical lamphouses converting them over to horizontal operation  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-22-2004 10:15 AM                     "So why hasn't he, if it's so easy and at a competitive price?" Its not their sort of buisness to offer lamphouse conversion kits, they are an optical house delivering custom parts to other vendors. Of course you could have Optiform do this and you could market it too. The Quebecians could have Optiform make the reflector if they wanted to.... but then again they are Quebecians and think differently than most others on the planet(IMHO). ______________________________________________ "Meopta apparently now prvides the christie reflector " Then why was the replacement I installed three weeks ago in an Optiform Box? Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-22-2004 06:33 PM                        quote: Jack Ondracek the Strong products are generally cursed with the inability to focus a uniformly flat field across the screen. I invariably wind up with hot spots that I can not coax out. Yah, well you should try getting even light out of an ORC 4500; even after hours and using the Align-O-Tron, the thing still puts out hotspots and uneven light. Funny thing is, no one seems to notice it when the picture is one, cept me. And I can't even look at the screen without film without wretching. Don't have that problem with Strong Super Lumen-X, well at least not to that same degree....I am used to getting super even light across the entire screen with my Peerless Carbon Arc, souped up to burn 80amps. I don't quite understand why xenon arcs can't be just as even. Same principal, no?....reflector, plasma in the arc gap focused on the aperture. Why the big difference with xenons?  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 08-22-2004 09:40 PM                    The carbon-based life form emits light primarily from the positive core; a point source pretty much. Not a ball of plasma. Optics are always easier with point sources.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 08-22-2004 11:36 PM                        quote: Frank Angel you should try getting even light out of an ORC 4500 ...Got a couple of them laying around here, Frank... if you're interested!  |  IP: Logged Andrew McCrea Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 645 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Registered: Nov 2000 posted 07-19-2005 01:02 PM                        Can the Super 80 run 5k or 6k watt xenons? Would it take a few modifications?  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 07-19-2005 01:38 PM                     ..you can head to www.strong-digital.com for more info on the Super 80 lamphouse.  |  IP: Logged Andrew McCrea Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 645 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Registered: Nov 2000 posted 07-22-2005 01:37 PM                        FWIW, the website is actually: http://www.strong-cinema.com Can someone private msg me about this lamphouse, please?  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-22-2005 04:45 PM                     The Super-80 only differs in its Blower from the Ultra-80 (and the Ultra-80 comes with a heat filter whereas the Super-80 it is an option). A 5-7KW lamp will FIT the Super-80...it is the cooling that is in question. You better have plenty of it on the exhaust stack because you will have about half the intake blower as the Ultra-80. Furthermore, you should be running with a heat filter when you are in the upper lamp ranges...I generally go to heat filters at 4K and above.  |  IP: Logged

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