Re: [Leica] Slide Projection/camera cases

[Bud Cook <budcook@ibm.net>]

Dr. Harper,
My Prodovit Color is a good deal older than your CA2500 and I have no problem
projecting slides ranging from decades old to recent Kodalux mounts.

There is a higher quality version of the Colorplan available in the P mount.  I
don't know if that will fit your projector or if it would even make a
difference.

IMHO, your projector is about as good as it gets with the possible exception of
the current 2002.

Regards,
Bud

Dr James Harper wrote:

> Slide projection  seems to crop up rarely.  I am not sure if that is
> because it is a dying way of enjoying the  glory of a Leica slide, or that
> no-one has any technical problems with it.
>
> I would be very interested to know from those who are still projecting
> colour slides what your latest thoughts and experience are on the best
> equipment for doing so.  Is it still Leica? If so, which equipment?  If
> not, what are you using, and what do you think of it?
>
> I still use a Leitz CA2500, which to my eyes looks  optically excellent.
> But it occasionally jams. This seems to be because the mechanism puts a
> slide into the projector, but does not extract it.  Instead it emerges
> empty, and then puts the next slide in behind (or possibly in front of) the
> first, thus jamming the projector.  My suggested explanation may be quite
> wrong, but there is no doubt about the jamming.
>
> I know the answer which says "Get it checked out."   I will do that if
> necessary.  But I wonder if the problem may be related to the fact that the
> CA2500 was designed in the days when slides were much fatter.  Perhaps the
> modern thin slides are responsible? Has anyone else had this experience?
>
> All offerings gratefully received, especially from anyone using a CA2500.
>
> On a quite different subject, and simply  in order to share information for
> anyone who may find it useful,  the latest Lowepro catalogue includes a
> shoulder or waist case for the Leica (inter alia).  The description reads:
>
>    "It may look small, but the Santa Cruz is ideal for some of today's
> larger 'compact' cameras or a small Leica or Contax rangefinder system."
> Size is  (inches/cms) W8/20, D3.5/9, H5/13."
>
> JH