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There’s a bunch of things to share since last week so I’ll get right to them.
First, I apologize for the inaccessibility this week. I usually remotely connect through my main computer, which decided to cause problems that I couldn’t fix from the west coast. I’m obviously back on-line now and will try to get to the email flood soon!
Second, a good sample of the first batch has been assembled and they are waiting only on final steps. These are expected to begin shipping Monday. The learning curve did come at the expense of a significant percentage of damaged components as well as the extra week of delay, but those components should be replaced by midweek. As units are finished and packaged I will email each person per the established plan.
Third, Infocomm was very interesting and it was quickly apparent that even the industrial/commercial side of the industry has a significant interest in anamorphic lenses. My thanks to the forum members who spent some time talking about the Panamorph and especially to Don Stewart who provided a room in the Stewart booth for our gathering.
Fourth, I have been speaking with a number of manufacturers and the unanimous interest among them is for a lens to convert 4:3 to 16:9 (0.75 vertical compression) with no projector tilt and which shifts the image down an additional amount from the projector. The current Panamorph provides this 0.75 compression when the projector is tilted up 3.9 degrees. This is so that the image top is at about the same vertical location as before the setup. Consequently there is actually a demand for two different Panamorph 16:9 specifications. We are clearly going to pursue the “down-shift†version of the lens in the near future. What I don’t know is, given the choice, which prebuy customers would want which version? I will start a separate thread on this to to try and be clear on the options.
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Shawn Kelly
Cygnus Imaging
www.cgns.com
First, I apologize for the inaccessibility this week. I usually remotely connect through my main computer, which decided to cause problems that I couldn’t fix from the west coast. I’m obviously back on-line now and will try to get to the email flood soon!
Second, a good sample of the first batch has been assembled and they are waiting only on final steps. These are expected to begin shipping Monday. The learning curve did come at the expense of a significant percentage of damaged components as well as the extra week of delay, but those components should be replaced by midweek. As units are finished and packaged I will email each person per the established plan.
Third, Infocomm was very interesting and it was quickly apparent that even the industrial/commercial side of the industry has a significant interest in anamorphic lenses. My thanks to the forum members who spent some time talking about the Panamorph and especially to Don Stewart who provided a room in the Stewart booth for our gathering.
Fourth, I have been speaking with a number of manufacturers and the unanimous interest among them is for a lens to convert 4:3 to 16:9 (0.75 vertical compression) with no projector tilt and which shifts the image down an additional amount from the projector. The current Panamorph provides this 0.75 compression when the projector is tilted up 3.9 degrees. This is so that the image top is at about the same vertical location as before the setup. Consequently there is actually a demand for two different Panamorph 16:9 specifications. We are clearly going to pursue the “down-shift†version of the lens in the near future. What I don’t know is, given the choice, which prebuy customers would want which version? I will start a separate thread on this to to try and be clear on the options.
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Shawn Kelly
Cygnus Imaging
www.cgns.com
