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    8th Man
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    Man, that's so weird that you brought this up. I live across from another apartment building that has a big white wall that I would love to project onto. Weeks ago I had thought of posting about this very thing, but I don't have a projector while I'm here and I suspect that it's too far away to get an image that would stay within the bounds of the wall. I'd still love to try. I'd also wonder what kind of reaction it would get. There's a street between our buildings as well as paranoid security guards.
    Has anyone projected onto a full size theater screen before? I'm sure some have who've gone to film school. How does it look?

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    roscothechimp
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    what the devil is a super 8?


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    Matt Pacini
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    Last question first.
    I haven't projected large scale, but I did see my film video projected in a theater, at the Humboldt Film Festival my flim was in.
    (The Kodachrome looked nice, the Ektachrome looked like crap).

    I'm wondering how powerful a bulb you have to project that large, and that far, and still see it.
    Is it dim?
    Do you have a freakin' arc lamp?

    I think you should film a silouette noir lit scene of somebody stabbing someone, project it on the wall, to freak out the security guards!

    Matt Pacini

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    miguelito
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    I once projected a roll of super-8 film on the plain white side of a building directly across the street from my kitchen window. The image was huge!! I'm talkin' about 20 feet high by about 30 feet wide!! I set the projector up aimed directly out the kitchen window and then I walked outside across the street right up to the wall for a closer look. It was amazing!! It was soo cool to see somthing I had shot so large on the "screen".
    Has anyone else ever done anything else like this?

    Miguelito (michael)



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    You can see the film on the other side of the street with a simple halogen bulb projector (about 150 W). Of course, the projection is too dim to reproduce shiny colors. For theatre projecton, the only solution is a HP-converted projector or the Beaulieu projector which in-built HP-lamp. It?s two times brighter than the Elmo Xenon. The Elmo GS machines can easyly converted to HP lamp. The HP lamp has 250...270 W power consumption and is as bright as a 1000...1080W halogen bulb would be. The color reproducion is more natural than halogen (cooler colors) and gives the filmes a more modern look.
    Pedro

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