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Author Topic: Ebay's scam of the day Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-17-2015 11:29 PM                     Thought this could be fun to post outrageous ebay auctions. By that I mean absurd auctions, not normal ones. This thread is not to promote your ebay store. It is to point out delusional people with ebay store accounts. Today's bargain: Interstellar cells for the low price of $500!  |  IP: Logged Rex Oliver Film Handler Posts: 65 From: Greenville, NC. USA Registered: Apr 2013 posted 08-18-2015 12:37 AM                     How strangly it is pictured-on the ceiling-Doesn't that look too big for 70MM I had only seen an IMAX film projector once-the one in the Smithsonian Air&space Museum -or is it an illusion the film strip looks larger than normal?--Or is that just what I needed-somewhere in that big walk in closet I have an IMAX projector sitting on the lower shelf!Yah sure.The picture just doesn't look right.  |  IP: Logged Buck Wilson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 894 From: St. Joseph MO, USA Registered: Sep 2010 posted 08-18-2015 05:11 AM                     They cut it diagonally. They can die now.  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-18-2015 08:33 AM                     Since straight cut tape splicers won't work through an IMAX projector the normal practice is to cut diagonally across the frame line.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-18-2015 08:51 AM                     There is also the Zig Zag splicer too. Imagine a 70mm splice that uses just 8mm wide tape! With the zig-zag splice...the film won't hinge...which is key for the IMAX projector.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 08-20-2015 08:33 PM                     Interesting to see a Neumade,70mm IMAX splicer with zigzag cutting surfaces. Comes from the same procedure of seamstresses using zigzag bladed scissors so the cut edges wont fray.  |  IP: Logged

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