I found a plastics engineer who made both sets of prisms for me - one 2 prism lens and one 4 prism lens.
In the end, it is a substantial saving, as commercial lenses start here at around $1500, and go through to (ready?) $13 500 for the ISCO III with auto slide. So spending less than $100.00...
I was doing this for while too but really did notice a huge difference once I got my lens. The beauty of using the lens is that you get to use all of your vertical pixels all of the time. The image is easier on the eye and therefore less fatiguing. Allot of people baulk at the price of the...
Some CIH chat, cool:)
Joel,
The 4805 is a great projector and will work well in a CIH set-up. You've asked about the playback of older material that is non anamorphic. There are two ways to do this -
1. remove the lens. You've mentioned that you are going with a shelf install so that...