Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I gave up on transparencies some years ago... I have dozens of books full of pictures that are taken on transparency film, never look at them cause it's too much trouble to set up a projector. And printing transparencies is generally a lot more difficult to get what I want than negatives. If it works for you, great. ... But several (oh, is it ten already?) years ago, a friend of mine was in the midst of buying a projector. He took the Kodak Ektagraphic line, bought the one that had the features he wanted, and then fitted it with a Leitz projection lens. There was a staggering difference in the quality of the images produced with the Leitz lens vs any of the other lenses he tried, with the exception of the Zeiss. This suggests to me that if the basic mechanism is sound and the illumination is even, the best way to go on a projector is to get the best lens you can find to fit it, that will do more than buying a Leitz vs a Kodak vs any other projector. YMMV. Godfrey