FUJICASCOPE AUTOVISION: FINE SPEED ADJUSTMENT.

The Fujicascope Autovision is the most interesting built-in Super-8 projector  for professional use on a desk, due to its peculiar design, low and flat, which is possible thanks to the fact that the supply reel is placed horizontally and lacks take-up reel: the film is rolled in an interior horizontal motorized flat surface. 

The Autovision is completely automatic: just insert the film into the slot and it threads it by itself, turns on the lamp automatically and stops the motor at the end of viewing. Even the electronic loop former is automatic! More information about this projector can be readed HERE.

Recently, I had to replace the drive belt. Since the original one, imported from Japan, is very expensive, I used an O-ring that I can buy locally, five minutes from my office, for less than a euro.

The problem with the O-ring is that it alters a little the speed of the projector. No problem with the Autovision, because, like all Fujifilm projectors,  it has easy access to the potentiometers for fine adjustment. In this article I explain how to do the fine tune speed adjustment on the Fujicascope Autovision.

The secret hole!

In this case, you don't even have to disassemble anything. Simply remove the small plate with the projector's serial number, in the rear side,  and a hidden hole appear that give access to two potentiometers, one to regulate 18 frames per second, the other to regulate 24 frames per second, with a screwdriver. 

For the precise adjustment you have to use the electronic device that my friend Renzo builds in Italy: when the teeth of the toothed wheel are seen still with the strobe light, then,  the adjustment is perfect (read about the Renzo device HERE)