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Author Topic: Upload your random pictures (part 3) Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 09-29-2008 09:55 PM                       JJ's?! You lucky dawwwwg!  |  IP: Logged Tyler Potts Expert Film Handler Posts: 159 From: Anderson, SC, USA Registered: Sep 2008 posted 09-29-2008 09:58 PM                       The benefits of a slow theatre in an expansion market... plenty of space for your Siberian Husky to run. Here's my 2 year old Tormé, a morning before the daily grind. joy.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-29-2008 10:08 PM                     quote: Sean Weitzel My new (to me) projectors for my home screening room. I guarantee the one on the left will run slow.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 09-29-2008 10:38 PM                     Somebody's gonna get serious with 70mm projection. Now, all he needs is a pair of huge Ashcrafts to light up the whole neighborhood for a nice backyard outdoor cinema.  |  IP: Logged Sean Weitzel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall) Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-30-2008 01:53 AM                     Oh yes, I believe a pair of Ventarc lamps are in order here for my 19 foot throw! Welding goggles anyone?  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 09-30-2008 02:06 AM                        Tim, I LOVE that poster! Where did you find the picture at?  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 09-30-2008 10:28 AM                       Hey, Allison! I found it online a couple years ago. Google image search or something, I don't really remember. I might have gotten it off an animation site, though, it's been a long time ago. Let me know if you want the larger version of it (too big to post here). It's 50% bigger.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-30-2008 09:56 PM                     Its been a while since I've been up to the mine overlook... Ya can't see the bottom any longer... ya used to be able to barely see the bottom when I first moved out here. The view is from about 9800 feet up at the lookout point in Middle Canyon. A few interesting facts about the ever growing mine... Bingham Canyon Mine has produced more copper than any mine in history -- about 18.1 million tons. 450,000 tons (408 kt) of material are removed from the mine daily. Electric shovels can carry up to 56 cubic yards (43 m³) or 98 tons (89 t) of ore in a single scoop. Ore is loaded into a fleet of 64 large dump trucks which each carry 255 tons (231 t) of ore at a time; these trucks cost about US$3 million each. There is a five mile (8 km) series of conveyors that take ore to the Copperton concentrator and flotation plant. The longest conveyor is 2.5 miles (4 km) long and passes through an existing railroad tunnel inside the mine. The mine is 2¾ miles across at the top and ¾ of a mile deep. You could stack two Sears Towers on top of each other and still not reach the top of the mine. The mine has consumed three towns over the course of it's time. The mine is so big, it can be seen by the space shuttle astronauts as they pass over the United States. By 2015, the mine will be at least 500 feet deeper than it is now. If you stretched out all the roads in the open pit mine, you'd have 500 miles of roadway -- enough to reach from Salt Lake City to Joe's place.  |  IP: Logged Tyler Potts Expert Film Handler Posts: 159 From: Anderson, SC, USA Registered: Sep 2008 posted 09-30-2008 10:02 PM                       That's pretty impressive. I've passed gorges and big bridges on road trips... but have never been to a mine. I definitely want to now.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-30-2008 10:14 PM                     The photo hardly does it justice... But it took 7 shots with a 40mm lens spliced together to make that panorama. If you use a super wide angle lens it distorts the perspective too much. Trying to fit in 2-3/4 miles of width in one picture and still make it look like you're there is dam hard!  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-30-2008 10:39 PM                     quote: Sean Weitzel My new (to me) projectors for my home screening room Ah...a focus knob for each lens. As much as I love the Kinotons, the 'one-focus-knob-fits-all' really should have never made it onto these machines.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 09-30-2008 11:15 PM                     John if you're really patient you can fix that Kinoton issue. What I do is load up virgin PA35 carefully manipulated so that it has a very long loop and doesn't drag on anything (set up some extra rollers). Then fire it up in scope and let it run for however long you feel it takes for your lenses to heat up (5-10 minutes). Verify the focus with a good pair of binoculars. Ideally double check your astigmatism at this point too, then switch to the flat lens and let it run for 5-10 minutes to heat up the lens. Now loosen the flat lens and without touching the projector's focus, go to town getting the damn thing locked back down not only in perfect framing, but with perfect focus as verified with the binoculars. Those Kinotons are a major pain in the ass to setup, but once you do the focus will never need adjusting again. A good quality pair of binoculars and a fuckload of patience is required though.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-01-2008 07:08 AM                     Or rip the stupid turret off and put on a single lens holder, like sensible people. That vintage of turret just laughs at the person trying to thread. It just gets in the way. Steve  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-03-2008 02:51 AM                     Hmmm...no, that wouldn't work.  |  IP: Logged Brian Michael Weidemann Expert cat molester Posts: 944 From: Costa Mesa, CA United States Registered: Feb 2004 posted 10-03-2008 06:19 AM                        Rice Bubbles? Huh, who'd have thought? When did the Bubbles go "Crispy"?  |  IP: Logged

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