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What chance there will now be a run on used Series 300 Mini35s and the traders and vendors wondering what the hell is going on.

P&S has definitely targeted the 35mm motion lens crowd (rental or big $$$) where Wayne and others (ourselves included) have targeted the SLR lens crowd which offers a much more affordable full frame (SLR film) solution. Wayne's adapter will not have any vortex/grain issues with HD or otherwise, as his spinning design is well sorted, and uses very modern technology for the spinning disc diffusion surface.

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Originally Posted by Jack Davidson

To be honest, fear-of-the-spinning-disc-design is the main reason I am/was leery of the SGpro, but to date I have never seen anything like "the vortex" from it, although I think I've seen it from the M2. (I think Wayne K has a secret formula.) I believe the SGpro must have a finer grained diffuser or higher rotation speed or both.

The mini35 does not spin in the same fashion as the SGpro or M2 from what I know. It's hard to explain this, but on the mini35 the image is projected onto a rotating GG where the spinning axis is actually the CENTER of the frame.

The M2 has the 35mm projected image onto outside area of a "larger" spinning disc. I think the SGpro works in the same fashion.

If for some reason my mini35 series 300 doesn't end up selling... I would definitely consider a mod to get it working with HD and possibly even improve on the light loss situation.