Kinoton FP30D shutter

[Javier de Blas]

Hello everyone, maybe this have bean cover before, but I can't find it.
My kinoton fp30d show the film a bit more than it should. So especially on credits with white fonts you can see i bit of ghosting going upwards. For what I know on how a film projector works. I think that the shutter is a bit out of sync with the film plane movement. I think is just a matter readjusting the shutter disc a bit clockwise or anti clock wise until i stop seeing the ghosting. The problem. The manual limits itself to tell you "call kinoton if this happens" and I can't find any explicit guide online to adjust it.
You can see it on this video, it's more apparent in real life. And sorry for the poor quality of the video.

https://youtu.be/3eRIoOygOhs?si=vpy1Xh0a9wUVytyV&t=620

[Steve Guttag]

Please note, you are working at your own risk. There is ample opportunity to hurt yourself and the projector when working with the shutter as it spins very fast with a decent amount of force and will absolutely cause serious harm to you if you contact the moving shutter.


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[Javier de Blas]

Thanks a lot. That's a magnificent guide.

Hope you have a great day.

[Ryan Gallagher]

Steve, Being only used to Century methods with the luxury of a timing adjust knob, I’m curious what function the threaded film has in the rough adjust phase.

Edit: Is it just an alternate method to visualize the 2 perf advancement in the framing window? Century's guide tells you to "use a stationary reference" at the intermittent sprocket itself. I think i bent up a paperclip to use as a pointer last time I checked my rough adjustment.