Patricia Dauder Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Hello, I've been reading in a post from 2009, that Bernie O'Doherty could widen the film gate of 16mm projectors to S16mm. I wonder if nowadays, there is someone /company who can do this service, carefully. Any info, will be much appreciated Thank you very much Patricia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Hart Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 I observe there have been no replies as yet. To have the projector gate modified, the best would be a motion picture camera repair service. Widening the gate would likely be a fairly simple but necessarily high precision task. A simple widening of the gate will locate extra image area away from the optical centre axis. If the light beam from the lamp is narrowly prefocused, there may be delivered an image which is dark in the right side upper and lower corners. A more thorough method would be to move the widened gate slightly to recentre the image to the optical axis but this would be complicated and expensive. What brand and model is your projector? Some projector lenses may deliver a Super16mm image which is vignetted at the right upper and lower corners. I copy-pasted the following list for some european services from this web address.https://re-voir.com/shop/en/content/10-film-servicesSUPER 8/16mm CAMERA REPAIR/MODIFICATION RESOURCES : BJORN ANDERSSON - BEAULIEU Sweden, Atelier RAYBAUDI - BOLEX France, CINEFIX UK UK SUPER 16, INC. New York, USA, JK CAMERA Oakland, USA, LIST OF GERMAN CAMERA TECHNICIANS Germany, PRO8MM Burbank USA, DU-ALL New York, USA, CLICK & SURR Berlin, Dr. Bolex USA, LES BOSHER UK, MICRODELTA Spain, PIGEON CREEK CAMERA - Bolex Ontario, Canada, L'ATELIER DE CELESTINS Montrouge, France
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