| Ilford Sportsman & Sportsview 35mm Slide Projectors |
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This page illustrates 35mm slide projectors branded ILFORD and sold to compliment the ILFORD Sportsman camera range which went on sale from 1957. From the mid-1960s to the end of 1969, Ilford acted as UK distributor for a range of equipment from the Elmo Company Ltd, Japan. Mostly this range consisted of cine cameras and projectors, but included at least one 35mm still slide projector, the Ilford Elmo CS. See it on my Ilford Elmo web page. |
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The British Photographic Journal Almanac for 1958 contains one of the first Ilford adverts for its newly released (1957) Sportsman camera together with a 35mm slide projector, also named the Sportsman. The description applied by Ilford to the compact Sportsman projector can be read in the BJPA advert, alongside. The Sportsman camera and slide projector complimented Ilfords colour transparency film Type 'D' (introduced 1948) and Type 'F' (introduced 1956). |
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| The pictures above and below left, of a 100-watt version and its original box, have been supplied by David Muiggleton. | |
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Left is shown the Sportsman with its sprung side doors hinged back, its detachable slide carrier in position and with two 35mm slides inserted. The 85mm focal length lens gives a 3feet wide picture (0.9m) at 9ft from the screen (2.75m), making it suitable for domestic use.
Projector Made in Italy, Also, see the Sportsman labels below. |
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This example, sold on ebay, has a logo plate on the side door and also a label on the back. Notice how the inside slides out at the back for cleaning and bulb changing. Also, notice the air vents for natural convection cooling (no fan). The labels shown left and below are mssing from the projector shown above.
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| The Sportsview 35mm slide projector was marketed around autumn 1961 (?) and was much more sophisticated than the Sportsman. The Sportsview uses a DIN standard 2x2" (4x4cm) slide magazine (the one supplied holds 30 slides) and has a high light intensity A1/182 (150watt 240volt) projection lamp, fan cooled. Once the slides had been arranged into the magazine and the magazine had been inserted into the channel within the projector body, slides were changed using a simple push-pull manual autochange lever. | |
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The Sportsview was produced in Western Germany by the Dacora company, run by Herr Dangelmaier, the same company which produced the Sportsman cameras for Ilford. The lens is a f2.8 85mm Rodenstock Splendar, claimed to give a picture 3feet (0.9m) wide from a 35mm transparency at an approximate projection distance of 8feet (2.5m). The black thumbwheel visible to the top left of the red Sportsview shown alongside (courtesy of David Muggleton) is the fine focus adjustment. The thumbwheel was set at a mid-point before starting a slide show and initially the projector was focussed using the helical screw thread lens mount. During a show, minor focus corrections, as might be required for some slides, was carried out using the thumbwheel. |
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The Sportsview projector shown alongside was sold in an ebay auction and shows that the Sportsview was available in at least two colours, red & bronze or yellow & light blue. The projector instruction maual,
as shown in the picture, can be viewed as a pdf file by clicking
on the icon, below. |
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Close
ups of these two labels are shown here. Notice that the Sportsman
projector was Made in Italy, whereas the Sportsman
camera was made in West Germany. The 'Made in Italy' information
also apperas on the box (above).
