Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:40 AM 4/18/2008, Frank Filippone wrote: >I found some 120 F2.8 Elmarit and Hektor and a 70-120mm Zoom Elmarit >Projector lenses at a store recently. They state that they fit the Kodak >Carousel projectors. > >Does anyone need/want/have information on these lenses and their quality? > >They are all in plastic barrels, which surprised me......I expected >brass..... Leitz and Leica had a long and heady history of producing magnificent slide projectors in both miniature format and in medium format. In one of the minor gaffes which have so marked Leica was their decision to rework their line of slide projectors at the very time when digital photography and Power-Point was rendering such devices a fringe market, at best. The lenses for this final family of slide projectors are generally regarded as the best of Leica projection lenses and certainly on par or superior to the best that Zeiss ever made; they are identified by P2 after the lens name. The 2.5/90 Super-Colorplan-P2 is especially highly regarded. Yes, the bodies are plastic but that merely makes them better able to survive the famed Marc James Small Bounce Test, guaranteed to occur every once in a while. All of the P2 lenses save for the Vario-Elmarit can be used for MF slides as well, provided you can find a MF projector on which they can be mounted. 2.8/120 Elmarit-P2 Leica catalogue number 30976 2.8/70-120 Vario-Elmarit-P2 Leica catalogue number 30980 There is a connection between P2 lenses and Kodak Carousels but I do not recall the details: I doubt if I have seen a Carousel in the past decade, though I own and use a Leica P150 with a 2.5/80 Super-Colorplan-2. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!