luis santos

Robin, I got some info about this too. At least P150 (the simplest of the line) is Kindermann made. I bought it because is near impossible to find a working LKM cartridge projector here. Even a faulty one it's hard to find... Yes, I would love to have a real Leica projector. But for now, I will try just upgrade the Hektor 85/f2.8 lens with a Colorplan, or another lens. The Super-Colorplan 90/2.5 you mentioned is the Colorplan-P2 "CF" as mentioned in the projector box?

SCL, thanks for your reply! And thank you very much for the offer. I have some updates... Question 01: I have read on another forum that it can be used! I'll test this tonight and give feedback here. Question 02: It was due the frantic of first use. On the first slide in a batch, you have to manually adjust the focus. I have performed this and AF worked nicely in the following slides! Question 03: I found it! Due to this, I got the answer to Question 2. Here's the URL I found: http://www.pradoseum.eu/Literatur/BAL-Pradovit-150.pdf About the lens: mine unfortunately is the plastic and cheap Hektor 85/f2.8, not the fine Colorplan 90/2.5. :-( I don't know if such a procedure could be applied to Hektor. And I have zero experience in lens maintenance. To be frank zero experience in anything maintenance... :-)

Sorry if is this the wrong subforum. I can't find one dedicated to slide projectors. I have an old KIndermann 35 mm slide projector, which I bought used in Brazil (originally bought in Holland) near 25 years ago. For the last 10 years it was stored unused, as it became faulty. As soon I power on it starts to advance frantically, like to advance button were continuously depressed. Nice to mention that Kindermann has an auto-advance slide timer, which Leica doesn't. Today I have bought, also in Brazil, also used, an old Leica Pradovit P150, with standard Hektor 85/f2.8 lens. It's very hard to find a good state used slide projector here. And this P150 was the only one Leica I found for sale. I choose it because I actually have a large bunch (10 or more) of LKM magazines, already filled with slides and organized. But sadly the lens came with small to medium-sized fungus spots... Question 01: can my old Kindermann lens (which is also plastic, cheap, but with no fungus) be used with Leica? Question 02: can the AF feature from Leica be adjusted? No talking about fine adjustment on remote, which is similar to the Kindermann. But all images are been displayed very out-of-focus initially. Question 03: Any source for P150 manual in PDF format? Best regards, Luis Santos São Paulo, Brazil