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

No, the 500N (Rebel G) has the same DOF Mode than the predecessor

500 (Rebel XS, I guess).

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Just the new 300 (Rebel 2000) has a DOF preview button. And a

separate one, unlike the Elan...

And I have read articles saying that, optically, the old version

of the 50 1.8 is better!