Sherman and Scott, Thank you for your quick replies. The projectionist wasn't able to adapt to the lenses that were provided so the films weren't shown. Thanks to the two of you, we can now plan accordingly. I appreciate you taking the time to offer this information.
Best Wishes, Jared On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 10:04 AM, Scott Dorsey <[email protected]> wrote: > Your Eiki takes a lens with a 42.5mm barrel. So there are a wide variety > of lenses that will fit it, of different lengths. > > In MOST cases, the anamorphic lens is an adaptor which fits over the front > of your existing lens. So you might, have, say, a 100mm Isco lens on the > projector, and you screw an adaptor ring onto that and then you screw on > a Sankor anamorphic adaptor over top of that lens. This works well for > long > throw applications but you can run into issues if the spherical lens is > too short. > > There are SOME anamorphic lenses that just slide into the projector and > replace both halves. The original Bausch and Lomb 16mm Cinemascope lenses > were this way. For the most part these are kind of lousy and some of them > only focus properly with a narrow range of throw lengths. > > So... the first question here is how big an image do you want with how much > of a throw, and what kind of spherical lenses do you have and what kind of > anamorphic adaptors do you have? > > The 35mm anamorphic adaptors are selling cheaply today and they can usually > be adapted for 16mm use. Many of them are very sharp. However, they are > generally pretty heavy and may need external support. The Sankor lenses > aren't really all that sharp and they tend to cost good money these days > but > they are light and convenient. > --scott > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >
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