Slide presentation - projectors and viewers

[keenmaster486]

I have a small magnifying slide viewer from the 50's that I've been using to view slides. It works great, and they look incredible, but I want something more. I've been looking around eBay for projectors.

At home I have one of those Kodak Carousel projectors - it works just fine, but I want something smaller, compact, and less expensive.

Who has experience with those old Kodaslide projectors? Were they any good? If so, is there a particular model which was better or worse than the others? I'm asking because I can get them for pretty cheap on eBay, not counting shipping (bleah).

I'm thinking maybe lens quality varied between different models?

Also, what about the color temperature of the bulbs? For instance, my slide viewer just uses a standard flashlight bulb, which of course produces a very warm light. I can't help but think that this affects the perceived temperature of the slide. What about projectors? I have no idea even what kind of bulbs they use.

Thoughts, anyone?

 

[MattKing]

Get yourself a stack ,loader for your Kodak Carousel. It allows you to use a more compact method for slide storage, while still maintaining the high quality of slide presentation from the Carousel projector.
Around here, the Carousel projectors are available for very little cost on Craigslist and the like.
A Kodaslide projector may actually be larger than a Carousel, and will be approximately 70 years old.
Bulbs tend to be halogen bulbs - something like an FSH lamp: http://www.topbulb.com/fhs-lamp-300w-82v-mr13-halogen-projector-bulb

 

[Bill Burk]

Carousel you already have should be your least expensive option.

Unless you have the original 500 series, it will use a small halogen bulb.

I have one of the original 500 series and it can only use the 80 slide trays, and it uses a high-wattage tungsten bulb. Kodak had a 500 series of non-Carousel projectors. They use a high-wattage tungsten bulb. I threw out one of them because it chewed up slides (a pretty serious shortcoming).

 

[Sirius Glass]

The Kodak Carousel projectors are the most reliable slide projectors made, since they worked on gravity rather than mechanically grabbing the slide, they rarely had problems compared to most other projectors.

 

[Pedro Pinto Basto]

Hi,
I read that some people change the halogen lamps that normally are used with the slides projections, to others standard halogen lamps. That makes that the slides last longer in the projection.

Do you know what kind of standard lamps can I buy to a slide projector? I'm a bit lost about that...

Kind regards,
And bye.

 

[Pedro Pinto Basto]

The Kodak Carousel projectors are the most reliable slide projectors made, since they worked on gravity rather than mechanically grabbing the slide, they rarely had problems compared to most other projectors.

Hello.

Does anyone knows the main differences between Kodak S-AV 1010 projetor and Kodak S-AV 2050?

And do you know if the Kodak S-AV 1010 projetor is older than Kodak S-AV 2050?

Thanks.

Kind Regards.

 

[MattKing]

Here is a link to the manual for the Kodak S-AV 2050 projector: http://www.tate.org.uk/download/file/fid/20927
This chart has some information: http://resources.kodak.com/support/pdf/en/manuals/slideProj/savHistory.pdf
And this is a link to the manual for the S-AV1010 and 1030 projectors: https://www.manualslib.com/manual/679722/Kodak-Carousel-S-Av-1010.html#manual