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Posted by Bobby Saraceno (Member # 4983) on 03-08-2010, 12:26 PM:

I have a friend in Japan who sent me some pictures of a projector on a Japanese online auction site. It's a Sony and it's a combination of projector head and lamphouse. Does anybody have any info about this. Although shipping would upwards of $200.00, the owner only want's about $50.00 (5000 yen) so I'm thinking of buying as a project. Check out the pictures below.

Thanks Guys

[ 03-08-2010, 03:21 PM: Message edited by: Adam Martin ]

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 03-08-2010, 01:44 PM:

Welcome - let's do it this way for all of us to see it better..

Posted by Robert E. Allen (Member # 1351) on 03-08-2010, 01:55 PM:

I did not know Sony ever made a 35mm machine. I don't see any sound system so it must be projector only.

Posted by Phil Ranucci (Member # 3820) on 03-08-2010, 02:01 PM:

Maybe it's a filmstrip projector.

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 4784) on 03-08-2010, 02:01 PM:

It looks like a still film projector (as in "slides on a film strip"), the sort of machine we had at summer camp when I was a kid to watch comics and photo novels.

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 03-08-2010, 03:30 PM:

Ya, it does look like a filmstrip projector - look at the upper carriage where the filmroll sits in and the knurled knob on the end of the sprocket below the gate ...

- Monte

Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 03-08-2010, 03:41 PM:

Yep, definitely a filmstrip projector. The knurled knob on the sprocket shaft is a dead giveaway.

These were popular in schools before the introduction of Beta, VHS and 1/2' B&W open reel video machines.

This would make a cool 35 to 16mm reduction printer project. [thumbsup]

Posted by Bobby Saraceno (Member # 4983) on 03-08-2010, 05:55 PM:

I figured it had to be something else, no body has ever talked about a Sony projector head before.