Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Anybody have an old MP30 for sale or trade?

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Posted by Derek Maxwell (Member # 234) on 12-04-1999, 02:40 PM:

I'm looking for a small portable machine and was told that for home use the MP30 was nice. Anybody?

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 12-04-1999, 02:44 PM:

The MP30 rates right in there with a holmes (sorry guys) as being the worst 35mm projector out there. It like many portables relies on a pawl pushing the film around the intermittent to frame it
A good portable is the MicroCine from Italy or the Veronese.
Also some of the Towkiwa's wern't bad
The parts for MP30's are virtually no existant as they were made by a company in India that is no more
The last MP30's I had in rental we took a sledge hammer to

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 12-08-1999, 10:38 AM:

Gord......You Da Man!!! Those machines really do deserve the sludge hammer treatment. Its about the worst machine ever built. In my opinion a Holmes is at least 10 notches better than an MP-30. Hummm.....The Christie P35GP should also fit somewhere in between those two as well though. Just saw the latest Christie version at the new Edwards in Nampa, Id. Now they have put a rubber "O" ring on the sound drum as a fix......geez, what next?

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 12-08-1999, 12:03 PM:

The MP30 was imported by Alan Gordon Enterprises in Hollywood
A good portable is the MicroCine
also called the Migon
We had several of them for years running in the Eatons Centre Cineplex and they were finally replaced with Prevost
see the picture warehouse for a shot of one of the rear screen booths that they used to live in