Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have to admit, I'm pretty jealous. After I shot those slides and had them processed, I was amazed at the sharpness and color/saturation. The man in the store was telling me how the digital projectors these days don't even come close to the quality of the older style projectors, and man did I believe him 100%. As I was coming home, I was excited to get the slides scanned in--after a 2 hour scanning session and playing around with different settings to get good looking scans, I have to admit, I was a little unsatisfied because the quality of the transparencies didn't exactly transfer over to the computer. So, I have to say, I want a projector now. Except, I doubt I could find much use for it, my friends would probably think I'm a freak for buying a slide projector machine. (But who cares what they think, right?) I couldn't justify, as hard as I had tried, my leica purchase to them..they still think I'm crazy! Wait a tick, you got that leica projector for $12!?? -Yama Nawabi -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+mknawabi=gmail.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+mknawabi=gmail.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Frank Filippone Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:19 PM To: 'Leica Users Group' Subject: [Leica] Projectors...... Over the years, I had a B+H Slide Cube projector, and later "acquired" a Kodak Projector. The B+H was nice because the cubes held a lot of slides, densely. But performance was never great. The Kodak was maybe better image wise, but the density storage was worse. At least the Kodak had the ability to use a batch mode, where the slides are put in a hopper and fed one at a time. Storage density went up a lot. But lately I wanted something more.... a better quality projector with optics to match my Leica Slides. I decided on a Leica Pradovit. That auction site provided opportunity, and I struck.... $12. Pradovit N24 in like new shape with a bunch of trays. The lens is the 50 Elmaron. What a performer..... first, in controls.... I never had seen a remote focusing situation that cycles through sharp focus and out again..... you stop when it is sharp. Second and most important in optical performance.... A nice bright, sharp image that is projected with that 50mm lens so that in the home, in short distances to the screen, the image is nice and big. Now to sort all those old slides and eliminate those of "lesser" quality....... Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information