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Topic: Simplex 35/70
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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster
Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 04-18-2003 10:59 PM
Have personally owned one, and worked on many 35/70 X-L's. They are a pile of crap!!! First off, they don't even have 70mm sprockets, or a 70mm curved gate runner. The projector was originally hand made in the 50's for Panavision to run 65mm wide film (Camera 65 process). They were never updated to full 70mm width stuff. The second bad aspect if one is going to run alot of 70mm is that you will go through movements. They simply (pun intended) don't hold up under the strain of running 70mm, not even with the webbed star. No two machines can be made to give the same picture steadiness either...good luck on that! You might get one real good and then the other may jiggle, or shake a bit. If you run 70mm they have to be threaded to the exact perf, and loop size, or you'll crunch, or damage the film. Other 70mm projectors, even the JJ is at least a bit forgiving of this.....this is not a machine for the manager/operator type booth. I service a booth today that has a 35/70 XL still in place....I was told that the original Union Operator that was in charge of this booth refused to run any 70mm on it for fear of damaging the prints......and he was a VERY experienced operator with lots of 70mm under his belt. Mark
P.S. Oops, forgot to mention that the penthouse is not driven either...I once sat through L.O.A. and listened to major wow in the sound near the end of each reel due to the inabilities of the penthouse to deal with things.....
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