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Topic: Advice: Ultra Short Throw 16mm Projection
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Leo Enticknap
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Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 07-01-2013 04:40 AM
Schneider do a 10mm lens, but it ain't cheap.
There are some people who fit the zoom lenses supplied as standard with Super 8 consumer projectors into sleeves to enable them to fit into 16mm machines. However, the resulting quality is a bit of a crapshoot. I'm got a Eumig 18-30mm zoom in a 42.5mm sleeve for my Eiki portables, and it's actually not bad. In our campus theatre (horseshoe-shaped auditorium), which has around a 10m throw to a screen that's about 4m by 3, you can just see a little bit of vignetting around the edges if the print being shown is very crisp and sharp and you're really looking for it; but otherwise I'm quite impressed with it.
However, when I explained this to a visiting experimental filmmaker (who only had the standard issue 50mm lenses on her projectors), she went and bought one on Ebay. The lens in the collar was a no-name one: the vignetting was seriously bad, and it absorbed a lot more light, too (she came in and we did a side-by-side comparison).
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