Powerful Projector

[AppleCore24]

I was lucky to find a projector last year at a huge garage sale for under $5 - it worked fine, ran great, the only problem is its really not powerful at all. It's an old (lol, of course) Kodak, but that's not the problem...

I was wondering if I could get some suggestions on some more powerful projectors? Doesn't need to be sound, just able to project bright images at least 20 feet from it...

Does anybody have any feelings on the Promatic Super8 Film Projector?

Thanks in advance!

[This message has been edited by AppleCore24 (edited January 22, 2001).]

[#Pedro]

The most powerful projectors were mostly the top-of-the-line models and have magnetic sound drives. For a bright Super 8 projection you?ll need a projector with at least a 15V/150W halogen lamp and a 1:1,3 lens or better. Models with a 100 W lamp or less won?t give a bright image. A good joice is the Braun Visacustic projector, as it has the pressure plate at the side of the lamp, pressing the emulsion side of the film to the gate thus always providing a sharp picture, even with spliced filmes and different stock. The same gate technologie have all Beaulieu models (actual in production!!!), with 150 W lamps, too. Also a very good choice is the Studio Class of Bauer, the T502, T525 and the T610. The brightest image with halogen lamp technology comes from the Elmo ST1200GS with it?s 24V/200W lamp. If you?d like even more brightness, your joice should be a xenon projector, which provides 4 times more light as a halogen projector with a lamp of equal power consumption. There was an Elmo ST1200GS model with in-build xenon lamp (250 W) and supply module, and for any Beaulieu models you can purchase a 250 W xenon module. At www.wittner-kinotechnik.de they are offering two universal xenon moduls and the lamps to transform any projector with heat-resistant case into a xenon model.
Pedro

[This message has been edited by #Pedro (edited January 23, 2001).]

[tom hardwick]

I can agree with everything Pedro says, and add to that theat the Xenon GS1200 looks so bright simply because the light is so blue-white against tungsten halogen's yellow light.

tom.