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    Microfilm projectors are used to project and enlarge microfilmed documents to a readable size. They contain micro versions of documents that have been stored on film reels or cassettes in order to archive large numbers of documents in a small space. Microfilm projectors must have lenses capable of enlarging the image, an illumination source, a screen to view the image, and easy to use film loading mechanisms. They allow archived information to be easily accessed while preserving documents for hundreds of years.

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    Microfilm projectors are used to project and enlarge microfilmed documents to a readable size. They contain micro versions of documents that have been stored on film reels or cassettes in order to archive large numbers of documents in a small space. Microfilm projectors must have lenses capable of enlarging the image, an illumination source, a screen to view the image, and easy to use film loading mechanisms. They allow archived information to be easily accessed while preserving documents for hundreds of years.

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    Microfilm projectors are used to project and enlarge microfilmed documents to a readable size. They contain micro versions of documents that have been stored on film reels or cassettes in order to archive large numbers of documents in a small space. Microfilm projectors must have lenses capable of enlarging the image, an illumination source, a screen to view the image, and easy to use film loading mechanisms. They allow archived information to be easily accessed while preserving documents for hundreds of years.

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    MICROFILM PROJECTOR

    INTRODUCTION:

    Microfilm and microfiche are used widely for storage and retrieval of information. Microfilm
    contains photographed reading material on 35mm film, each frame being the reduced photo of a
    printed page. Thus printed matter of a book can be stored in a small loop of 35mm film.

    When the microfilm is passed through a microfilm reader an enlarged image approximately of the
    size of the printed page is formed on a ground glass screen and the observer can read the matter by
    moving the film through the film pages can be obtained and read.

    HISTORY:

    • At the beginning stages in the development of microfilm, microscopes were used to view the
    microform documents.

    • Early microfilms were visible under a 100x microscope, and only very expensive ones at the
    time were used to view the microfilmsone of the earliest readers of microfilm was the
    Coddington Magnifier.

    • Developed by Sir David Brewster, this magnifier was a "simple plan no-convex lens of such
    thickness that the focus of its spherical curvature coincides with the flat surface of the lens.

    • On June 21, 1859, the first patent for a microfilm was issued to Rene Dargon in France.

    DEFINITION

    • A microfilm projector is a device used in projecting and magnifying images stored in


    microform to readable proportions.... Using open reels or cassettes, microfilm is often used
    as a way to store many documents in a small space

    Microfilm projector

    • Range in size from 16mm up to 35mm.


    • They contain a 'micro' version of A4 and A3 documents. >They are used to store & archive
    documents, plans, newspapers and more.

    • It is believed that they can last for up to 500 years....

    CHARACTERISTICS

    • A lens that is capable of magnifying the image on the film to at least the size o the original
    document. .

    • An easily replaceable light source that provides illumination without damagin the microfilm.
    Minimization of light effects of the room.

    • A screen large enough to project the entire film image.

    • An easily used loader for film rolls.

    • Provisions to rotate the image on the screen.

    • Readily accessible controls.

    • Minimization of the possibility of scratching or abrading the film.

    • Means of preparing enlargement easily.

    ADVANTAGES

    • The advent of microfilm has had advantages to not only archiving documents but also
    spreading knowledge across nations.
    • A United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization report discussed the
    issues surrounding the implementation of microfilm internationally.

    • As would be suspected, the report discussed the benefits of easy access to documents.

    • The report also reported issues not on production of readers, stating that the production of
    reads was a simple and relatively low cost projects, but rather or the production of microfilm
    itself

    DIS ADVANTAGES:

    And this leads us on to the first majordisadvantage.

    • Accessing microfilm can be difficult and time-consuming.

    • You will manually have to copy information from film and write it down
    on paper.
    • Sometimes you will struggle to rotate images or reverse polarity.

    TYPES:

    Three formats are common:

    • microfilm (reels),

    • microfiche (flat sheets), and aperture c ards.

    • Microcars, also known as "micro-opaques",

    • a format no longer produced, were similar to microfiche, but printed on cardboard rather
    than photographic film.

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