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Topic: Westar 105 Xenon portable, is this a good projector?
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Stephen Furley
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Posts: 3059
From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 10-14-2002 02:42 AM
It looks very like a Chinese portable machine I saw a couple of years ago. Whether it is the same machine re-badged, or the Chinese one is a copy, I don't know. The one I saw had been converted to Dolby stereo, and used halogen lighting, but the owner said that there was a xenon version available, I think he said there was a double band version as well. The machine seemed to work pretty well, nice steady picture. Main disadvantages, it was quite heavy, you wouldn't want to carry it very far, or up lots of flights of stairs. Of course, the xenon version would be heavier. The spool boxes are only 2000 feet, most modern portables can take 6000, you could probably get it to work with a tower or platter, but then it's hardly portable, is it?My main interest is in documentary film, almost everything I have in my collection is between 1000 and 2000 feet, so it would be ideal for me, if I had either the space, or the money, but maybe not so good if you want to run features. Then again, running features on 35mm is always going to mean either large spools, two machines or a platter, none of which are very portable.
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