Now, I need your help.

[Nigel]

I may be shooting a Doc here really soon and I have a question that I hope one of you can answer---I will be shooting on my Super16 camera (mostly) and I will have a widescreen Xfer for a Digital Broadcast.

Here is the question--Have any of you out there had the ground galss in your Super8 cameras mapped to show a 1:85 aspect ratio? If so who did it for you and what did they use?

I have had one guy say he could do it by putting strings across the ground glass--Not exactly the thing I want inside my camera.

[tom hardwick]

I think he meant black cotton. If the screen is easily accessed then cotton held by blu-tak is easily placed, adjusted and one day removed.

tom.

[#Pedro]

Nigel:
My Beaulieu 9008 has a groundglass with the standard 4:3 size and additionaly two lines, marking the 16:9 size for the HDTV format. This way you can place the szene correctly inside the 16:9 frame. The latest projectors have an interchangeable 4:3/16:9 mask to screen the widescreen films correctly.
As far as I know, the Beaulieu service can exchange any 6008/7008 groundglass an put a 16:9 groundglass in it.
Pedro

[Nigel]

Pedro--

Thanks but I have a 4008ZMII--can you have the 16:9 glass put in it?

[#Pedro]

Nigel:
Due to my expieriences with the Beaulieu service, everything is possible, just ask them. If you got no positive response in the USA, ask at Bavaria for such a modification. 10 years ago I had my 6008 ground glass exchanged - costed about $300.
Pedro

[Nigel]

Thank You All