As we move ever nearer towards Christmas and then in a blink of the eye, the end of yet another year, full of trials and tribulations, it gave me the time reflect upon what has been yet another colourful and eventful year in the hobby. Very trying at times but also I feel, THE most rewarding year overall for all of the things we all learn as we go associated with the hobby.
I was amused this afternoon by the post that was hitting our other most popular of forums, all to do with the GS1200 this afternoon. You have collectors like Graham Ritchie over there, that'll swear blind the GS 1200 is the greatest of projectors that ever hit planet earth. They have never damaged a print of his, they work like clockwork, and quite frankly, why anyone would ever care to mention any other machine, is quite a mystery, such is the majestic ELMO GS, and let's not forget the 40yr, long standing, totally reliable marvel known only as his ST1200!
Anyhow, just about anyone (and I do mean ANYONE ), will swear blind that their machine runs their films flawlessly. Well I received prints only just recently, where a collector stated the very same. MK 3, runs flawless, only shown 4 times max and guess what?.....
That infamous trademark that can only be ever known as the Elmo Owners blindspot surfaced yet again!!
Who are these people kidding?? Totally dilluded or what??
Don't ever kid yourselves people, you certainly ain't kidding anyone here, these machines are no better than CINEWRECKS (Cinerex) until seriously modified beyond belief. They really ought to be issued as an airfix kit in order for you to do your modifications as you build them, such is their finesse.
I said only a week or so ago, (to the usual silent response I hasten to add when everyone knows your points are at least half valid but cannot stomach admitting so!), that without the vital discovery of the machines I managed to suss for myself, were half useful for what they were ever created to do....I'd have been out out of this hobby for a second time quicker than a one legged man in an arse kicking competition.
Its been a trying year but a fulfilling year now it draws to it's end and in pictures, I now mark and acknowledge what a fine tool the real machines that both perform the task of both showing our films, but also more importantly, as the years roll by, protect our films as they do so, really are in these twilight years of the otherwise great Super 8mm film collecting hobby.
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