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Author Topic: Prevost P70 focus motor - help needed Matthew Taylor Expert Film Handler Posts: 186 From: Essex, UK Registered: Mar 2004 posted 06-09-2005 05:01 PM                     Please can anyone tell me how to get the remote focussing motor working on a Prevost P70. I presume it is possible to wire two switches somewhere to enable the motor to move back and forth but I can't find where. My Manual doesn't contain the relevant information.  |  IP: Logged Jason Miller Expert Film Handler Posts: 241 From: Little Rock, AR, Registered: Mar 2004 posted 06-09-2005 08:48 PM                    If you can manually move the focus adjustments without the motor, I wouldnt even bother hooking it up. the Christie SLC and Big Sky consoles have motorized focus adjustments that occasionally freeze in the wrong position. thereby causing small amounts of blistering on the film. I would set lamp focus for Scope picture and leave it. EDIT - heh. woops. had something else on the brain. I'll shutup now. [ 06-10-2005, 02:59 PM: Message edited by: Jason Miller ]  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 06-09-2005 11:33 PM                       I believe it the projector focus being referenced here.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-09-2005 11:37 PM                     Actually we have one customer in Nevada that has a pair of P-90's. These machhines are over 20 years old but still look and run like new. I just changed the belts for the first time last summer! This customer makes full use of the remote focus and loves it. I've tried it and it works very effectively. Mark  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-10-2005 06:02 AM                     What a great tool! Now you can stand beside the screen and focus the image. What a great way to make the best possible image on your screen. Several of our Travelog speakers have made their own remote focus rigs for the Bell & Howell arc lamp projectors they carry with them. These were usually radio controlled servos from the model airplane hobby shop. Very effective and the owners seemed to have few problems with them. KEN  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 06-10-2005 07:26 AM                        Most of the Kodak screening rooms have remote focus capability for the 35mm projectors. Very easy to get perfect focus when you are close to the screen.  |  IP: Logged

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