Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/02/13

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To: photog3@ix.netcom.com (Mel Weinstein ), leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Leica Projectors
From: Gang Huang <gang@mtdcr.mt.att.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 96 10:27:58 EST

At 06:30 PM 2/12/96 -0800, Mel Weinstein wrote:
>A number of people have been asking about the Leica P150 slide 
>projector.  I just bought one in September and would recommend the 
>projector, but only if you spend the extra money and buy the CF lens.  
>It is about $100 more and well worth the money.  The Hecktor lens that 
>is standard, is a flat field lens and you will have a very hard time 
>projecting your slides and have the whole image in focus without glass 
>mounting all your slides.  If they are mounted in plastic or cardboard 
>they will bend from the heat of the projector lamp making it impossible 
>to focus on the entire image.   With the curved field lens this problem 
>is eliminated and the images are as sharp across the entire plane as I 
>have ever seem from a slide projector.  
>
For those of us already have the P150 with Hektor lens, is this 90mm CF lens
available and how much? I can't seem to find it advertized by the mail order
stores.
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