35mm slide projector - home use

[rayonline_nz]

Hi all

I got a Kodak Carousel 2050 from my camera club for sometime and until tomorrow I got myself a self standing projection screen. It has a Kodak Retainar 51mm F2.8 and a Schneider 85-210mm F3.9.

I usually shoot Velvia 50 RVP. I been doing a bit of reading and they talk about the Ektapro and the Leica RT 300 machines with the colorplan lenses or the Navitar (?) lenses. This is for the occasional home use. For the home user would there be much point in getting a better projector and or lens?

The RT300 isn't exactly cheap also. How much does the Mamiya 67 medium format projectors go for and would that be better. I have just got my medium format rig also, so who knows how much 35mm I would shoot in the future.


Cheers.

 

[jmlynek]

Hi all

I got a Kodak Carousel 2050 from my camera club for sometime and until tomorrow I got myself a self standing projection screen. It has a Kodak Retainar 51mm F2.8 and a Schneider 85-210mm F3.9.

I usually shoot Velvia 50 RVP. I been doing a bit of reading and they talk about the Ektapro and the Leica RT 300 machines with the colorplan lenses or the Navitar (?) lenses. This is for the occasional home use. For the home user would there be much point in getting a better projector and or lens?

The RT300 isn't exactly cheap also. How much does the Mamiya 67 medium format projectors go for and would that be better. I have just got my medium format rig also, so who knows how much 35mm I would shoot in the future.


Cheers.

The Ektapro, Leica and even the Elmo Omnigraphics are great projectors, but they're built for heavy use and reliability. The best thing you can do to make your home use projections better is to glass mount your slides and never use 140 slide trays, which jam easily.

 

[MattKing]

If you glass mount your slides, make sure that the lens you are using isn't one of the curved field versions.

The Mamiya 67 projectors are wonderful, but expensive.

I have two projectors with quite basic lenses that will take a 6x6 or 6x4.5 slide. At the sort of magnification needed for in home use, the result is stunning. If I were to use them in larger premises, I would invest in a better lens.

 

[Jim Jones]

I was satisfied with several older consumer grade Kodak Carousel projectors with a variety of Kodak lenses for decades, but now have moved to printing. Any of the Kodak Carousel projectors should be fine for home use.