Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/12

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Subject: [Leica] PRADOVIT PROJECTION
From: "Michael Ingram" <michael@ingramagency.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 18:09:34 -0000

In reply to the recent "thread" on projection....and hoping these observations are useful for projection fans....

I have been a dedicated user of Pradovit Projectors for 15 years, currently using a Leitz Pradovit Color 2 which is essentially the same model as the Leica 2502.

 I switched from a 2500 in order to keep all my 45,000 slides from 1960-today in the reduced space made possible by the introduction of LKM 80 slide magazines.This involved a monumental task at which time I remounted everything in GEPE mounts, discarding old bowing cardboard mounts!

As for lenses, I have both a Colorplan Curved Focus (CF) and a Super Colorplan. Both are simply the best optics available...each suited to different slide mount types.They are far superior to the Kodak lenses we use at my Advertising Agency on Kodak Carousel projectors (and they are not bad...it's just that the Colorplans are so special). 

The CF is optimised to work on old cardboard mounted slides AND appears to work on some, but not all, thin plastic but not GLASS mounted slides.In my experience it works well on all GEPE unglazed mounts...NOT so well on slides mounted in plastic by commercial labs who use an adhesive top/bottom to fix the slide.

The Super Colorplan comes in to its own on GLASS mounted slides, giving absolute corner to corner sharpness with those marvellous Leica lenses.

I project on to a 60 x 60 inch screen permanently set up and the quality of a good Velvia or Scala (Agfa b & w 200>800 ISO slide film) shot on current Summicron-M's is still one of the great revelations of what can be achieved from a 35mm image.

HELP !!!   Re : The BRIGHT LIGHT KIT ...
featured in the latest Leica brochure  ....Leica UK really don't seem to know exactly what this is...I rang them today...their best shot was that it is a daylight viewing attachment of some kind. 
PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY INFO ON THIS ITEM...as I think they are wrong!!

Feel free to email me at : 
michael@ingramagency.co.uk
 
if anyone wants any further thoughts on how to avoid some pitfalls of projection/ slide storage I've learned (sometimes at great cost!!) over 37 of my 50 years!