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Posted by Per Hauberg (Member # 529) on 07-22-2000, 03:22 PM:
The Ernemann 15 projector is currently being offered for the first time on the danish market. -Have anyone any experience with these machines...?Per
Posted by John Walsh (Member # 168) on 07-22-2000, 03:29 PM:
Look back to a posting on 12-16-1999 under the title Ernemann 15.
Posted by Stefan Scholz (Member # 147) on 07-22-2000, 05:03 PM:
Works. We were running a very early one in our Kiel theatre. Worked trouble free for 5 years. Had to close the place due to lease termination, as selling beer and food seemed to be more attractive to the owners than arthouse films.
Posted by Martin Frandsen (Member # 74) on 07-23-2000, 07:54 AM:
Is the Ernemann projector the one that has the supplie and take-up reel mounted horizontally on the projector? 
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Posted by Stefan Scholz (Member # 147) on 07-23-2000, 10:55 AM:
The one with the horizontal reels, the "helicopter" type, was called Ernamann 12 and was made during the infamous 1970's. It is, due to bad electrical control and many design flaws not very famous. Even though the projector mechanism itself has not been too bad.
The Ernamann 15 has 12000 ft spools on both sides, the sidewinder version, or 6000 ft as usual projectors. The US market normally only uses the projector head, and mounts it to a console. It was the first commercial projector to use laser optical pickup.
Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 07-23-2000, 11:40 AM:
I believe the actual mechanism of the 12 and the 15 is the same only the turret and gate assembluies are different
We had many of the 12T running here in toronto for years
Posted by Florian Pausch (Member # 708) on 07-24-2000, 05:03 PM:
Hello everybody,
I am technician/projectionist of the Austrian Film Archive, longtime reader and now new user...
Ernemann 15 is an excellent projector but has two problems:
1. construction of the base is not really the best quality - I have heard of many problems with vibrations causing picture unsteadiness.
2. You won´t be able to show silent films in the original aperture, because the diameter of the shutter is not big enough! (which was in fact the reason, that we did not buy one of them)
One big goal the projector has, is the opportunity to install a unit for 16 mm, which uses the same light source and optical axis (including anamorphic lens, for one of the worst formats I have ever worked with)
So long
Flo
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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 08-15-2000, 05:29 PM:
Has anyone attempted to replace the gate and trap of an ernamann 12 with the new one from the 15?
I have several 12's in the warehouse I was thinking of resurecting
Also can it be run directly off the 3phase mains with out the control box
What is the problem with the shutter and silent appertures
I know one lab that was looking at useing some 15's for super35