Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For the best slide projector, go with whatever fits the trays that the slides are in already. If they are not in trays, then remember that you could easily spend more on trays than the projector. If you are just trying to sort through a bunch of loose slides, then consider a stack loader. Kodak makes them to fit the Carousel projectors. Leica made the RT300 that takes Carousel trays and loaders. Kodak Medalist and Ektagraphic projectors are good machines, too. Whatever you do, avoid the Kodak 140 slide trays - they jam if you look cross-eyed at them. EBay has tons of deals on old slide projectors. The last equipment I bought was from KX in Santa Barbara if you need a retail dealer: http://www.kxcamera.com/pro-repairs.html Several years ago, KX set me up with a nice dissolve unit and a pair of beautiful Tamron-Pro zoom projector lenses - all top end stuff that is almost worthless now. Speaking of projectors, I just bought a digital one on eBay that arrived yesterday. Nobody on the LUG made any recommendations, so I went with the Proxima Pro AV 9310, a 40 pound behemoth that will be permanently hidden in a projection booth above the hall closet. It sold new in 2000 for $15,000. With shipping I got it for about $450 on eBay. (Kinda' lets you know about the price curve on all things digital.) Because of its weight and size, I got something used that is about the quality of something new that would cost a couple thousand dollars. Images are very bright and I'm looking forward to dialing it in for projecting images from my computer server. I doubt that it will match the quality of a projected 35mm slide, but it will be a fun way to review the day's shooting! Anybody else using digital projectors? Gary Todoroff, Tree LUGger www.northcoastphotos.com PS - this is definitely not an Off Topic (OT) subject at all, Jim - very pertinent to current and future viewing of our photographs! At 10:09 AM 11/02/06, you wrote: >My wife's father's ninetieth birthday is coming up and she wants to buy him >a good slide projector. He has a closet full of slides but lost >his projector >in a move some time back. I've checked my local photo store and some of the >common photo web sites with little luck. Seems projectors are considered >dinosaurs along with film cameras by many these days. Any >ideas where I can get >one? Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >Jim > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information