Los Vega's HT

[rded]

Originally Posted by vega2K

Thanks RHett! This is what it's all about - making things better and cooler! Remember the saying - He who has the most toys wins!

That means you're the undisputed winner of this forum!

[vega2K]

Originally Posted by rded

That means you're the undisputed winner of this forum!

Not by a long shot but I am fighting back!

[vega2K]

Here's a picture with the Star Ceiling ON this time.

[SupaSweet]

Wow Vega, excellent work my friend. Your projects are always top notch, cant wait to see your DIY anamorph lens...truly inspiring.

[crazyBLUE]

Originally Posted by crazyBLUE

Turned out real nice vega ! Look's great up there hiding the screen covers .

You did forget to turn on the stars for us though !!!

Originally Posted by vega2K

Here's a picture with the Star Ceiling ON this time.

Its about time

[vega2K]

Originally Posted by crazyBLUE

Its about time

Crazy,

I am glad you asked about turning ON the SC, it sure made sense. I'll give you one happy banana for that!

[vega2K]

UPS delivered the trophy prisms today. I will be using these for my DIY anamorphic lens. I was able to buy them from a fellow AVS member who used them for some two years and has new been able to upgrade to a Panamorph AL. At first I panicked because they looked in bad shape. But after I cleaned them, they look fine. Total cost was $125 for both and included a home-made enclosure and plexiglass attachments. The beauty of getting it from him is that he followed more or less the same approach that I had planned. Below are some pictures.

This is the general idea of what I planned on building:


The prisms would be attached to plexiglass and screws as shown in the diagram:


This is coming straight from the following link which is what I am using as my guidelines:
http://www.zuggsoft.com/theater/prism.htm

Here's one of the prisms and plexiglass. I received them unattached to the prisms but I realized that using double-sided tape instead of glue would actually work better because the tape will also cushion the prisms.


Here's a pic of plexiglass attached to the prism with the double-sided tape. Sorry for the fuzzy picture (still learning how to take close-up pics)


Here's how it looks assembled in the home-made enclosure I received. It is a temporary solution because I planned on using wood instead of mdf and also I planned on focusing on aesthetics more.


I did some preliminary tests by simply holding the apparatus up to the projector. The prisms do exactly what they were supposed to do - They take the skinny image and expand it to fill the 2.35 screen. And more importantly the image is good! This thing weighs a ton, since each prism is a 5"x7" piece of glass, so I really need to build the manual sled to truly do the proper adjustments. So far, I am excited and think this will work out pretty good for me. More to come.

[vega2K]

Originally Posted by Eddie.Nyce

Wow Vega, excellent work my friend. Your projects are always top notch, cant wait to see your DIY anamorph lens...truly inspiring.

Thank you Eddie! Speaking about inspiring, I believe you were one of the first inspirations that got me into the projector/plasma dual display set-up in the first place.

I am crossing my fingers that the DIY AL will give me decent enough results so that I will be able to enjoy the 2.35 experience until an opportunity comes along on a brand name AL.

[talstarone]

Originally Posted by vega2K

Here's a picture with the Star Ceiling ON this time.

That image is Simply Amazing.Outstanding work,Vega.
Your additions to your system are simply Amazing!