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Author Topic: Cinemeccanica Victoria 5 Lens alignment tool Neil Robinson Film Handler Posts: 28 From: Coxhoe, Durham, UK Registered: May 2004 posted 04-06-2011 07:04 PM                     Does any know if Cinemeccanica manufacture a lens alignment tool for the Victoria 5 projector that aligns the lenses with the gate.  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 04-07-2011 04:19 AM                     Hi An alignment tool is available, you fit it from the front of the projector like a lens and you can check the mirror alignment and the entire optical path as a consequence. Never used it but I would strongly recommend to align the light path using light instead. A Laser could be useful for turret alignment and general rough alignment, but a light source is the best for mirror alignment because mechanical centre is not necessarily coincident with Optical centre. I tried an align'o'tron once and - despite it's a great tool - I ended up moving the mirror waaay out of alignment.  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 04-07-2011 10:22 AM                     They had a lens plug with two different lens diameters on each end and a rod with internal crosshairs...I had to mark mine (barrel to rod) since the crosshairs where not square....long retired to laser.  |  IP: Logged

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