[Frameworks] 16mm graflex / singer / telex projectors

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On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Ekrem Serdar <ekremserdar at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>   Recently had a nice experience projecting with one of these (the manual
> load ones), and I'm considering getting one and having it be my primary
> instead of the pageant.
>
>   Seems to be easier to find zoom lenses for them, and they seem pretty
> smooth, adjustable pressure gate, and some have silent options too. Saw
> David Tetzlaff post about them with good words in the archive; anybody
> dislike them for any particular reason? (other than heavy and uses older
> bulbs)
>


The following list includes service and parts for the Singer/Telex/Graflex
projectors. I assume you are talking about the Graflex 900 series?

http://www.16mmdirectory.org/search?q=singer

Chuck Hessinger had a large collection of parts for these machines. You
might want to contact him to ask what he has in stock for the projector you
are interested in or have.

I had a Graflex once, I think it was a model 920. One thing I wasn't too
impressed with was the threading path, which to my memory was not as
accessible as the Pageant.

I always prefer a projector that makes the film easy to load and remove
from the gate and thread path. This also makes it easier to clean the
entire thread path (not just the gate). I seem to recall that even the
manual loading Graflex did not make it easier to access the entire thread
path, but I might be wrong here, as it has been a long time since I have
used one of these projectors.

The 900 series Graflex lens has a barrel diameter of 1.184", compared to the
Pageants 1.156". I bet you could remove the lens housing on the Pageant,
take it to a machine shop and have the shop open up the len port enough to
fit a Graflex zoom lens.

With the Pageant 250S you have a cooler EJL quartz lamp (I've also used ELC
in place of EJL). The Graflex is going to use a much hotter incandescent,
and why have all that heat near the film if you don't have to.

The Pageant may have it's problems (the lens being on the top of the list),
but it just might edge out the Graflex for the reasons I stated above.


Alain

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