my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

» Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE   » Community   » Film-Yak   » Cinemeccanica Sneak Preview... (Page 2)

This topic comprises 2 pages: 1  2

Author Topic: Cinemeccanica Sneak Preview... Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-20-2003 09:36 PM                     Gord, A Standard Simplex can do a darn good job of on screen performance....I've never seen any VIC perform near as good with 35mm running through. The Vic 8 is no better really in the 35mm department either. They run 70mm far better. Considering that there are still quite a few running I wonder what a VIC 5 will be melted down to become a part of in 50 to 75 years!! Mark  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 03-20-2003 09:54 PM                       Ditto, Mark. The old Simplexes and Supers were built when precision actually meant something!  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-20-2003 10:26 PM                     On the shutter gear on a vic 8 they recomend replacing both the shutter shaft and gear and the gear on the stub shaft togather As for the nylon gears in the vic5 gear boxes I only had greef from the ones where the operators were jumping over the slow start resistors and the machine started with a jerk Never had a bend star shaft occur (brenkerts were a single bearing intermeitent as is almost all the european machines (kinoton excluded)  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 03-21-2003 02:05 AM                        A Vic 5 a toy!! Ever work on a DP75!!!???? As Gordon said, as long as you look after the Vi5, i.e. Belts and oil changes regularly, no probs and any operator with a set of Allen keys and half a brain can repair them. Darren  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-21-2003 08:41 AM                     Yea, You can have em! Mark  |  IP: Logged Christian Appelt Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 505 From: Frankfurt, Germany Registered: Dec 2001 posted 03-21-2003 05:55 PM                     A friend of mine had to use Cinemeccanicas on a trade fair where they were used with loop cabinets. I remember that all three prints run on CMs looked really bad after a week while the single print that ran (in the same booth) on a 30 year old Simplex was still fine. Personally, I had only to do with portable 35mm machines from Italy, and they all were extremely rough on film and were built quite - let`s say "basic". But the worst 35mm machine I ever had to work with was a 35mm portable built by a spanish company called Wassmann. Even the first prototypes of nineteenth-century-projectors were not built that primitive. A real film killer!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-21-2003 06:57 PM                     That does not surprise me as I had a V-8R in my home screening room a long time ago. It was essentially in brand new condition but it was very hard on film, especially film that had shrunk slightly. Slight edge damage was a guaranteed film break. A pair of V-10's later on gave me the same type of results but they ran 70mm really well. The name Shakeameccannica didn't come about because they are really good! Mark  |  IP: Logged John T. Hendrickson, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 889 From: Freehold, NJ, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-21-2003 07:48 PM                     You are all welcome to them. We ran them for years at one of our locations. They were not an option when we equipped our new locatiion. Enough said.  |  IP: Logged Christian Appelt Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 505 From: Frankfurt, Germany Registered: Dec 2001 posted 03-22-2003 11:38 AM                     Just to be fair, I must add that I once had a decent Italian portable machine called MIGNON MICROCINE 35 which was much better than the models mentioned in my last post. It was built very rugged and available with halogen or xenon light and even as a SepMag version to run 35mm mag stock in sync with dailies.  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 03-22-2003 07:16 PM                     I used a V5 for many years, and generally, I agree with Gordon. When one was first installed, I initially laughed at it because, when we bolted a xetron XH4000 lamp on it's back, it almost tipped over. We had to bolt the pedestal to the floor. But, it was problem-free for about 15 years. While you can some faults with it, I feel you could find different, but equivalent problems with other projectors. I worked at a twin that had two Century-rebuilt JJ's and an SA and they were both so bad I wished for the two V8's I first learned on and a V5. After 10 years, the SA was so bad we just replaced it, and the JJ's were beat, and one was re-rebuilt.  |  IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

This topic comprises 2 pages: 1  2

Printer-friendly view of this topic

Hop To: Select a Forum: Category: Operations -------------------- Digital Cinema Forum Film Handlers' Forum Large Format Forum Ground Level Feature Info, Trailer Attachments & REAL Credit Offsets Category: Community -------------------- Film-Yak Film Handlers' Movie Reviews The Afterlife Bob Maar's Joke-A-Thon Category: Classified -------------------- Equipment and Supplies Wanted/For Sale Help Wanted/Seeking Employment Category: System -------------------- Software Beta Testing Forum

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.