{"id":4995,"date":"2026-09-22T14:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T14:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2026-09-22T16:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:08:06","slug":"on-mignons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/on-mignons\/","title":{"rendered":"ON MIGNON’S"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heres a page or more on those great 35mm so called portable projectors you come across when you go to north Finland to teach how to fix 16mm projectors and someone opens a cupboard and there is two of them sat there waiting for some film love!!!<\/p>\n

I got my first one, a Halogen lamp model from Ray Luton at the Watershed in Bristol.\u00a0 Then after my mate Rod had modified it to death, he graciously gave me a replacement, one of two Xenon models he’d sourced from the EAFA in Norwich.<\/p>\n

This is it in action. It has a mad modification that allows any frame rate from 3 to 30 FPS to one decimal point, so you could run it at 23.9 fps if you were so inclined. Of course, there is no hard 24 setting, so when you do want to run at 24, it invariably goes to 24.3, or 23.8 etc. Oh well.<\/p>\n

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Anyways, they are nice machines with a fairly open film path that’s not too hard to lace up. Ill put details of lamps here, both Xenon and Halogen. Also minor fixes like the rubber O-ring replacements and perhaps details\u00a0 on the aperture plates which I had made for me.<\/p>\n

They are not ‘portable’ unless you are a 10ft Gorilla. (Joe Young??) It takes two people to lift them.<\/p>\n

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The Xenon models have a significantly larger lamp house and look more bulky.<\/p>\n

‘Migno’ in Italian means ‘Little’. I like the play on XenON, by adding an N to make MIGNON, I guess meaning ‘LITLLE XENON’.<\/p>\n

They were manufactured by Microcine. But cant find much online about this company.<\/p>\n

Heres link to nicely made video showing one in use.<\/p>\n