[Francis in VT]

Originally Posted by BetterSense

UPDATE

My Brownie 500 projector is hopelessly bad. The top reel hub falls off intermittently, the auto-feed doesn't really, and i have to keep my finger against the feed roll or it will backlash.


I would start looking for a good DUAL projector. In my over 40 years of retail the Bell & Howell made some of the best projectors. Then whichever way you go you will have a better projector than the Brownie.

I bought a Baia viewer-editor that says on the box it can be used for both regular-8 and super-8, but I could not get it to work with this film. I couldn't get the film to run on the sprocket, nor get the spools to line up. I guess I will have to sell it and try to find another one. I did ebay a 8mm splicer. At least with that I can cut out the ruined middle of the film even without a viewer.

The Baia was not a good editor. The Japanese made some very nice dual editors

There was one time, where it looked like there was some focus wobble going on, but I suppose it's hard to say if it was the camera or the projector (the camera has fixed focus).

The wobble might have been a loose pressure plate in the projector.

Good luck with it.

Francis in VT