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Projectors with removable gates


Patrick Cooper

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I believe there are a fair few super 8 projectors where the gate can be completely removed for cleaning. Just wondering if the pressure plate can usually be removed as well? Wonder if I can sandwich them together outside the projector as part of a DIY transfer unit. Ive given up on the idea of converting a projector for telecine as I lack the patience.

 

By the way, my projectors use a different design for cleaning - the lens swings out to the side to provide access to the gate.

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Depends how far you go back but yes. Eumig were the largest manufacturer by far with the 800 series models having removable gates front and back. Norisound have a swing down gate and rear spring pressure for near constant focus. Sankyo and Fujiscope swing forward and does sound like you may have a Elmo which swing outward. Eumig machines in the 70's were known at 'the work horse' because of reliability and so many of these are still in use today.

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The Elmo st-180E (and one other, I think) has a speed control under the cover; in the rear; for fine tuning 18fps and 24fps. You can project on a small screen and do a telecine with a video camera that records at 24p. A friend of mine has been running a very successful film transfer business; for many years; and he uses this method with this projector and a Sony camera. He just fine tunes the speed adjustment until the frame rate locks in.

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Not ideal but we have all done it in our time. The main problem is the hot spot generated by a 100 watt Halogen lamp, but back in the day early 80's we did change the lamp for a 12 volt 50 watt type to reduce the central intensity somewhat.

 

Things have changed dramatically in cine film transfer as we know with scanning each frame but we sure had a great deal of fun back then experimenting with 8mm 16mm and even 9.5mm trying to get the best we could at the time down to trusty VHS tape.

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