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How many have a medium format projector?

I have an Hasselblad PCP-80, as well.

Can a HD Scan equal the quality, - contrast, resoultion, definition ...?
Not even close, in my opinion.

We should start a PCP-80 group.
 
Hi all,
I'm happy to see there are still people projecting MF slides. I recently got for about $60 (shipping included) an old French brand manual MF projector, that I managed to adapt to the more modern current supply here (230V) and took that opportunity to put an 300W halogen lamp in it. I can't let the slide too long on lest it melts but the results are quite beautiful to me so far. Can't wait to mount my latest 6x6 slides I took with my newly revised Rolleiflex 3.5E that look stunningly sharp on the light-table.
 
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I have and use a Kindermann 66 projector. I think I paid about EUR 100-150 for it. Maybe not the best bargain, but it didn't break the bank either. I'm glad I bought one, anyway. An evening of projected slides every now and then, there's nothing like it, really.
 
I have found locally a Bausch & Lomb Balomatic 755 automatic projector with trays, and that stuff is totally in a different league than 35mm.

The colours are rich, the image is sharp, brilliant, you can really walk into it. Go for it.
 
Not being familiar with these, do they work with slides made from 645 format?
 
LaGrassa said:
Not being familiar with these, do they work with slides made from 645 format?
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645 slides have their own mounts, which have the same exterior dimensions as 6x6 slides, and fit into the projectors in the same way as 6x6 slides.
 
I have a MF projector, but it has no slide or tray (so changing slides is somewhat slow), and a lousy lamp.
But on command, it goes 'pop' and emits a rather impressive burst of light.

But what to use it for these days, i don't know.
 
I'm happy with my Rollei P66S even though it's got a small chip on the condenser lens. I hope I'll find a replacement condenser someday. I still like 35 mm slides a lot, but medium format is really in a different league, especially for landscapes.
 
Michel Hardy-Vallée said:
I have found locally a Bausch & Lomb Balomatic 755 automatic projector with trays, and that stuff is totally in a different league than 35mm.

The colours are rich, the image is sharp, brilliant, you can really walk into it. Go for it.
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My father had one and it was great. No one could locate it after he died. I would like to get one.

Steve
 
MattKing said:
645 slides have their own mounts, which have the same exterior dimensions as 6x6 slides, and fit into the projectors in the same way as 6x6 slides.
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Matt:

That's what I would have guessed but wanted to make sure.

Thanks for the post.

Michael.
 
MF slide projector

I am using beside a 35mm Rollei AF slide projector an KIEW 66 A projector. A heavy succer with a weight of 11 Kg. Works fine!
 
I just bought a Rollei P66A on my recent trip to Germany. I cannot say much about it yet, as I have also just started to explore medium format photography and am waiting for my first slide films to be developed...

I also got a Rollei 35mm projector, and just looked at my dad's slides from 1964... quite a joy. Most slides are still in good shape, I am not sure what film it was. They were all hand-mounted by my parents into thick glass-only mounts.

mtjade2007 said he has a P66 and it is a medium format and 35mm projector? I don't quite understand how it can handle both format unless the 35mm positives are mounted in 7x7 slide mounts?
 
I have a Goetschmann G67 projector for 6x7 slides. The best purchase of my life.
 

The model that takes 35mm and M/F Slides isn't the P66A but the P11, or at least mine is, like this one. http://dayton.craigslist.org/pho/1874836593.html
 
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I have a Norris 6X6 single slide projector which has a 35MM lens and carrier as well. I regret to say that I haven't used it for a long time, but I might fire up the Rolleiflex T and try it out again.

jacksond
 
Jack,

I don't know of such projector. I guess you mean "Noris".
Noris is a general reference to the german city of Nürnberg. A manufacturer located there used Noris as brand name for their cine and still projectors.
 
I recently picked up a Kindermann 66 for £30

I generally scan, but seeing the images through to projector makes you realise how inferior the scanned images are.

For 35mm I've also got a wray firefly, which cost me all of £3
 
Did anyone every make a projector for 6x9 format? One of my co-workers gave me a roll of Ektachrome 100 which he had picked up from the Kodak booth at the NYC camera show. I ran it through my Mockva 5 and developed it with the Arista kit from Freestyle. I would love to see what the images look like on a screen. (So much for free film.)
 

There is on ebay right now a projector which claims to be good for 3 1/4 x 4"
 
I was very negligant whilst reading a projector data-sheet and mixed up image size and slide-frame size...

To my understanding next to 6x7cm image size comes 9x12cm, but no 6x9cm projector.
 
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AgX said:
Götschmann make one. (8.5x8.5cm)
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The Götschmann projectors are for 6x7 not 6x9. 8.5x8.5cm is the size of the frame, not the size of the negative.
 
This is mine, bought about 30 years ago, I do not remember how much (but a lot cheaper than a Rollei), nor where (but must have been at a local dealer here in Paris, because it was before internet).

It is called "Planet CF 66A-F" (no known brand ?), has a fair lens from Will (Wetzlar) and (by the base plate) was made in Italy for Cine+Foto GmbH.

It is heavy, simple and sturdy, and worked well all these years ; I just had to readjust once the slide changing mecanism, but it is very easy to service "oneself"

It has only manual focusing and slide changing (both working with the same cable remote control) and the lamp has a two-step brightness control (dim and full). The fan is ON all the time the projector is powered.

It uses Rollei slide magazines, indeed ! and I have all my (6x6 and 645) slides under anti-newton glass, of course.

By the picture, does it look like a branded model that you know ?

Paul
 

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