Slide projection suggestions

[Guest]

I'd be interested in hearing fom anyone who has figured out how to do justice to projected Zeiss 'chromes.

So far, I think I've deternined that single-AN-glass is the best mount compromise. But my Kodak projector, even with Schneider lens, is dissapointing. Besides, it 'cooks' the slides!

Is Leica (or something else) significantly better? If so, which models and how/why? My application is home use only, nothing elaborate.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Dan

 

[Guest]

> Hi Dan,

I use two Leica Pradovit P 600 IR projectors each with a Leica Vario-Elmarit P2 f2.8 70-120mm projection zoom lens. I couple them with a Leica DU-24 M2 manual dissolve unit. The great thing about the Pradovit 600s is their ability to take either straight or carousel magazines. I have a 60-inch screen, and my transparencies look terrific from a range of around 12 feet, although with the zoom lenses, I can project all the way down an auditorium (small) when I am lecturing. Hope this helps. Robin

 

[Guest]

Robin

Glad you didn't suggest anything elaborate ;-) Sounds like a great setup.

Dan, I use a lowly Leica Pradovit 150IR with a 90 f/2 Colorplan lens. My Zeiss chromes look great, but you really need to get the Colorplan lens rather than use the one that comes with the projector.

 

[Guest]

I use a Rolleiflex twin-lens projector from the 1970s with Rollei lenses that does dissolves beautifully. I had it rebuilt by Rollei a couple of years ago and it perks along famously. The lenses are really good. I get about the same results without dissolves with a lighter and more portable Kindermann. I think good lenses are important, but even more important is the screen. Unless I simply cannot get the room quite dark, I use a matte white screen rather than my other one, a lenticular. The matte screen shows much more detail and contrast, and my Zeiss slides from last year's trip to Britain really pop out on the screen.

 

[Guest]

For home projection I use a Leica P2002 projector. Besides a Colorplan lens, I also have a Kindermann lens with built-in diaphragm, which is very useful for projecting slides in glassless mounts. Slides in glassless mounts have the advantage that you don't have to worry about Newton rings, dust particles (the ventilator of the P2002 blows them away) and fungus (a long term problem with glass mounts!), but they "plop". Stopping down the Kindermann lens to f4 or f5.6, the greater depth of field neutralizes this plopping, while the P2002 is such a formidable "light machine" that the image on a matte white screen still is very bright. By the way, the optical qualities of the Kindermann lens are of the same high level as those of the Colorplan.