Re: [Leica] Slide Projection/camera cases

[Lucian Chis <chis@ece.orst.edu>]

 Hello James,

I have one of those CA2500 and you must know that the current P2002 uses
the same chassis. the Latest 2002 come with the bright light kit
installed, whereas you can get the kit installed for the existing
projectors for about $150 or so I understood from Leica. (They weren't
sure it would fit the old CA2500 (OLD!!!).
About your CA2500, and mine.
If you have a curved slide, the ejector mechanism will fight the pulling
arm on the same slide and that's why you will have problems.
If the problem is bad enough, you will have bent the internal lever which
controls the ejector, and which you can see at the bottom of the projector
if you take the bottom cover off. The ejector should stay a little bit out
from its channel; I have just purchased from eBAy the repair manual and I
could give you specifics if you need them. Anyway, in my experience that
lever bends and then you get all  sort of trouble if you don't get it
straightened.
Don't worry about image quality. You are well ahead of the crowd with this
projector; Supercolorplan is a little bit better than  regular Colorplan
but Ther is a lot bettter improvement for unglazed slides by switching to
the CF Colorplan.

Lucian

On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Dr James Harper wrote:

> Slide projection  seems to crop up rarely.  I am not sure if that is
> because it is a dying way of enjoying the  glory of a Leica slide, or that
> no-one has any technical problems with it.
> 
> I would be very interested to know from those who are still projecting
> colour slides what your latest thoughts and experience are on the best
> equipment for doing so.  Is it still Leica? If so, which equipment?  If
> not, what are you using, and what do you think of it?
> 
> I still use a Leitz CA2500, which to my eyes looks  optically excellent. 
> But it occasionally jams. This seems to be because the mechanism puts a
> slide into the projector, but does not extract it.  Instead it emerges
> empty, and then puts the next slide in behind (or possibly in front of) the
> first, thus jamming the projector.  My suggested explanation may be quite
> wrong, but there is no doubt about the jamming.
> 
> I know the answer which says "Get it checked out."   I will do that if
> necessary.  But I wonder if the problem may be related to the fact that the
> CA2500 was designed in the days when slides were much fatter.  Perhaps the
> modern thin slides are responsible? Has anyone else had this experience?
> 
> All offerings gratefully received, especially from anyone using a CA2500.
> 
> On a quite different subject, and simply  in order to share information for
> anyone who may find it useful,  the latest Lowepro catalogue includes a
> shoulder or waist case for the Leica (inter alia).  The description reads:
> 
>    "It may look small, but the Santa Cruz is ideal for some of today's
> larger 'compact' cameras or a small Leica or Contax rangefinder system." 
> Size is  (inches/cms) W8/20, D3.5/9, H5/13."
> 
> JH
>