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Author Topic: ERNEMANN 15 Per Hauberg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 883 From: Malling, Denmark Registered: Jul 2000 posted 07-22-2000 03:22 PM                        The Ernemann 15 projector is currently being offered for the first time on the danish market. -Have anyone any experience with these machines...? Per  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 07-22-2000 03:29 PM                     Look back to a posting on 12-16-1999 under the title Ernemann 15.  |  IP: Logged Stefan Scholz Expert Film Handler Posts: 223 From: Schoenberg, Germany Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-22-2000 05:03 PM                        Works. We were running a very early one in our Kiel theatre. Worked trouble free for 5 years. Had to close the place due to lease termination, as selling beer and food seemed to be more attractive to the owners than arthouse films.  |  IP: Logged Martin Frandsen Master Film Handler Posts: 270 From: Denmark, Europe Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-23-2000 07:54 AM                     Is the Ernemann projector the one that has the supplie and take-up reel mounted horizontally on the projector? ------------------ It's the new small talk. You do it so awfully well! - My Fair Lady  |  IP: Logged Stefan Scholz Expert Film Handler Posts: 223 From: Schoenberg, Germany Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-23-2000 10:55 AM                        The one with the horizontal reels, the "helicopter" type, was called Ernamann 12 and was made during the infamous 1970's. It is, due to bad electrical control and many design flaws not very famous. Even though the projector mechanism itself has not been too bad. The Ernamann 15 has 12000 ft spools on both sides, the sidewinder version, or 6000 ft as usual projectors. The US market normally only uses the projector head, and mounts it to a console. It was the first commercial projector to use laser optical pickup.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-23-2000 11:40 AM                     I believe the actual mechanism of the 12 and the 15 is the same only the turret and gate assembluies are different We had many of the 12T running here in toronto for years  |  IP: Logged Florian Pausch Film Handler Posts: 11 From: Wien, Austria Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-24-2000 05:03 PM                     Hello everybody, I am technician/projectionist of the Austrian Film Archive, longtime reader and now new user... Ernemann 15 is an excellent projector but has two problems: 1. construction of the base is not really the best quality - I have heard of many problems with vibrations causing picture unsteadiness. 2. You won´t be able to show silent films in the original aperture, because the diameter of the shutter is not big enough! (which was in fact the reason, that we did not buy one of them) One big goal the projector has, is the opportunity to install a unit for 16 mm, which uses the same light source and optical axis (including anamorphic lens, for one of the worst formats I have ever worked with) So long Flo ------------------  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-15-2000 05:29 PM                     Has anyone attempted to replace the gate and trap of an ernamann 12 with the new one from the 15? I have several 12's in the warehouse I was thinking of resurecting Also can it be run directly off the 3phase mains with out the control box What is the problem with the shutter and silent appertures I know one lab that was looking at useing some 15's for super35  |  IP: Logged

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