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Fujifilm has announced a caller ultra-short propulsion projector pinch its lens attached to an articulated limb that tin pivot and rotate. Unlike astir UST projectors that require moving the full portion to reposition wherever an image is being projected, the FP-ZUH6000 tin move betwixt projecting connected walls, ceilings, and moreover floors while remaining mounted successful 1 location, and it tin beryllium permanently installed successful each kinds of places.
The institution hasn’t announced erstwhile the FP-ZUH6000 will beryllium disposable aliases pricing details, but it’s being introduced astatine the Integrated Systems Europe 2025 waste and acquisition show that starts coming successful Barcelona, Spain. A akin projector released by Fujifilm a fewer years agone pinch a overmuch little 1920x1200 solution came pinch a steep $14,000 value tag. The FP-ZUH6000 is the first clip Fujifilm is offering a projector pinch this unsocial lens configuration, 6,000 lumens of brightness (there’s nary mention if that’s ANSI aliases ISO measurements), and a 3840x2160 resolution, truthful it will perchance beryllium priced moreover higher.
Similar to a submarine’s optical periscope (or the zoom lens on your smartphone’s camera), the FP-ZUH6000 uses a brace of prisms to nonstop ray into an limb that tin pivot up to 90 degrees, and past done a lens that tin rotate 360 degrees. Most projectors only let an image to beryllium repositioned by a fewer inches utilizing package adjustments that often trim the solution of the projection. With the FP-ZUH6000, the projection tin beryllium aimed successful astir immoderate direction, while an further lens displacement usability allows the image to beryllium further adjusted vertically aliases horizontally without rubbing the lens. That creation introduces a batch of elasticity erstwhile it comes to wherever the projector itself tin beryllium permanently installed.
Since the lens tin widen beyond the projector’s body, the FP-ZUH6000 tin moreover beryllium installed retired of show supra a hanging ceiling pinch conscionable the lens information near visible. The projector’s creation (and value tag) will astir apt make it much appealing to museums and different places wherever installations require projectors to beryllium mounted retired of scope of the public. But it could besides beryllium a useful summation to a location theatre allowing the projector to beryllium mostly hidden without the request for a dedicated projection room.