Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 2:39 AM -0400 7/8/00, Hugh Thompson wrote: Last week I shot my first roll of slide >film. I was completely amazed by the quality of the image, I am sold! >Until I can afford to get a slide projector, is there an inexpensive way of >viewing slides. I have heard about a small, battery operated, personal >viewer - are there any preferences? Henning wrote: >Get a projector; any projector. They can be had for very little money used. >Try to get a bright one if there is a choice, and one that has fairly even >illumination from center to corner. A newly painted white wall works well >if a good quality screen isn't available. A cheap beaded screen is usually >worse than a good wall if the room is dark. Junk Shops! The best places on earth! I found my old 1930's Leitz Projector there, for, i think about $30 last year. It has a cracked condenser, an old Hektor 73 lens, and only takes two slides at a time. After looking through some old catlogues i think it's a Leitz 'Goblin', and if it's not, it definitely looks like it should be called that--old bakelite and black crinkle metal finish. Combine it with an old white sheet---wa-lah! Home cinema! I didn't tell my partner i'd bought it, because i'd recently got into trouble over a recent photo purchase. My partner is a great photographer, so i snuck some slide film in her camera and told her to go and take some photos. We were both students at the time, so frequently a lot of film got shot and not processed (I'm still a student, so this is still relevant :-). When she finished the roll it got stuck with the others assembled on our dresser. I got it processed, mounted the slides, and while she was at the corner shop one evening i set up the projector and slides. She was delighted, and we had a great evening of lots of slide watching and re-sequencing slides for different affect etc. Do it Hugh, it's lots of fun. Take care, Gary - -- "The difficulty now is that unexceptional adults believe the loss of youthful dreaming is itself "growing up," as though adulthood were the passive conclusion to a doomed activity and hope during adolescence." OO The Uses of Disorder [_]<| Personal Identity and City Life -- Richard Sennett /|\ Gary Elshaw Post-Grad Film Student Victoria University New Zealand http://elshaw.tripod.com/ http://elshaw.tripod.com/photointro.html