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nidi
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Curt Palme CRT Tech
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Link Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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I saw the Eidophor in the 11th row of the Michael Jackson Victory tour in 1986. Best and largest video picture I ever saw.
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Tim in Phoenix
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HaydnG90
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An oil vacuum pump. The lumen output must be off the charts. If I had that in my HT it'd probably melt the screen.
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garyfritz
Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 12026 Location: Fort Collins, CO
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The docs claim the Eidophor was 80x brighter than CRTs of the day. Other docs claim 10,000 lumens, and I assume that would be ANSI lumens -- I doubt it was current-limited like CRTs are. A 9500LC puts out about 260 ANSI lumens, so 10,000 / 260 = 38x; a G90 at 60Hz is rated 280 lumens, 10000/280 = 35.7. So the Eidophor had roughly 35-40x the lumens of the best CRTs.
They claimed screens up to 18 metres = 59' in width. Assuming a 4x3 aspect ratio, that's 59 * 59/1.33 = 2611 sq ft -- call it 2500 sq ft. So that enormous screen would only have 10000 / 2500 = 4 ft-candles -- unwatchably dim in my opinion. Cut the screen size in half (9 metres = 30' wide) and you'd have a nice bright 16 ftC image. It could probably do an acceptable image 35 or even 40' wide.
Your HT screen is probably about 7-8' wide. Mine is 7.1' x 4', which is 28.4 sq ft. But the Eidophor probably had a 4x3 panel image, and my screen wouldn't use all of the height. A 16x9 screen would only use 9/12 = 75% of the 4x3 = 16x12 panel image. So it would only see 75% of the 10,000 lumens, or 7500 lumens. Which would be really bright, but your screen shouldn't catch fire. 7500 lumens is "only" 5.8x more than the 1300 ANSI lumens put out by my RS-45. My ftC calculations aren't working right -- I'm getting crazy-high ftC for both my RS-45 and the Eidophor -- but it should be about 5.8x brighter than my RS-45, or about 90-100 ftC. I think you could almost watch that in full sun.
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zaphod
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Link Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2019 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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and I bet Jeremy has two stashed away in the back room...
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AnalogRocks Forum Moderator
Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 26690 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Link Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2019 4:38 am Post subject: |
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zaphod wrote: | and I bet Jeremy has two stashed away in the back room... |
I had a series of posts about these some years back. Unfortunately I do not have any BUT I did find a pair of lenses at thrift that look like the ones for the Eidophor.
Still looking for a pair of Eidophors.
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garyfritz
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AnalogRocks wrote: | Still looking for a pair of Eidophors. |
Gonna set up a steampunk 3D rig??
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Tim in Phoenix
Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 4379 Location: Phoenix
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garyfritz wrote: | AnalogRocks wrote: | Still looking for a pair of Eidophors. |
Gonna set up a steampunk 3D rig?? |
Edge blend. Watch it outside. Daytime! LOL
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AnalogRocks Forum Moderator
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Link Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 3:18 am Post subject: |
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Tim in Phoenix wrote: | garyfritz wrote: | AnalogRocks wrote: | Still looking for a pair of Eidophors. |
Gonna set up a steampunk 3D rig?? |
Edge blend. Watch it outside. Daytime! LOL |
Hmmmm.....movies for a sunny afternoon
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Tinman
Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 1326 Location: Carson City Nevada
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Link Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2019 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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I had an Eidophor projector for a while.
The problem with it was it's (for a house) enormous power consumption. And at 240V no less.
It was interesting, and very large.
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AnalogRocks Forum Moderator
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Link Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2019 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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What signal did you feed into it ?
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tschaeikaei
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Link Posted: Fri May 03, 2019 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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I had some email conversation with a guy in Berlin who used to be one of the last techs that worked with Eidophor projectors
and saved two from scrapping.
The main thing with these projectors is that they don't do anything beyond 800x600.
There were "HD- mods" (by the factory) on one of the last models, but i think they were about XGA resolution.
So: no 1080p/i here.
It should be possible to experiment with different oil mixtures, temperatures and so on, but that's far beyond
of what i would try in me apartment. If anyone is interested, here is his website.
German language only, ask me if google can't translate
https://eidophorblog.wordpress.com/
Regards, Julian
A word about mikes electric stuff: There are some mistakes in his TED talk about Eidophor, i assume because he didn't find enough material.
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Curt Palme CRT Tech
Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 24303 Location: Langley, BC
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Link Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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I've still got a GE Talaria here. 240 volts, in a road case. WOuld sell it cheaply if someone wants it. Have a bunch of spare bulbs for it, too.
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tschaeikaei
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Link Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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Curt: Do you have some screenshots and specs?
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Curt Palme CRT Tech
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Link Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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I don't sorry, it's buried.
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donaldk
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tschaeikaei wrote: | I had some email conversation with a guy in Berlin who used to be one of the last techs that worked with Eidophor projectors
and saved two from scrapping.
The main thing with these projectors is that they don't do anything beyond 800x600.
There were "HD- mods" (by the factory) on one of the last models, but i think they were about XGA resolution.
So: no 1080p/i here.
It should be possible to experiment with different oil mixtures, temperatures and so on, but that's far beyond
of what i would try in me apartment. If anyone is interested, here is his website.
German language only, ask me if google can't translate
https://eidophorblog.wordpress.com/
Regards, Julian
A word about mikes electric stuff: There are some mistakes in his TED talk about Eidophor, i assume because he didn't find enough material. |
The HD mod most likely was Vision 1250, the Pal/SECAM countries' HD version of the Day. Eidophor was used in the Demo's at the Barcelona Olympics HD demo's in 1992.
The data input was indeed limited by today's standards, but 30 years ago one would be pleased as punch to be able to nafford an non-interlaced SVGA PC monitor, let alone an XGA Monitor, 'All types of comutersignals upto Super VGA', according to the voice over in the posted ad from 1992. 3000 lumens DLP projectors by DPI (then still Rank) were about 5 years out at that time.
Curt compares the (upto ~12K full white) lumens output of 100K CRT beasts from about a decade later. ~1990 was pre-ANSI output.
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donaldk
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Curt Palme wrote: | I've still got a GE Talaria here. 240 volts, in a road case. WOuld sell it cheaply if someone wants it. Have a bunch of spare bulbs for it, too. |
Did those used to last 300 hours? Like Eidophor's? Only person I ever met that worked on these at GE, and wrote the text book on projection systems, passed away this year, Display Daily, and associated premium newsletters, writer/analyst Matt(hew) Brennesholtz:https://obits.lohud.com/obituaries/lohud/obituary.aspx?n=matthew-s-brennesholtz&pid=196633747&fhid=21959
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Curt Palme CRT Tech
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Not sure, but I've got 6 spare bulbs as well. Apparently they are under high pressure, you need to wear safety glasses at minimum when changing them. Mine are in a plastic housing, with a big shorting bar across them. Someone local knew more about them than I did, so I was glad he told me..
One day I'll dig it out.
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