Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, The Pradovit rt was made by Kodak and is actually a Carousel. All the accessories like trays and remote controls including lenses are interchangeable. Len On Apr 19, 2008, at 5:58 PM, Marc James Small wrote: > 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! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information