Question for slide projectors

[gabrielaszalos]

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I keep pondering more and more about buying a slide projector, but the thought of cutting my strips into pieces and putting them into plastic frames each time I want to view them on the projector is really putting me off. I am imagining all the frames that weren't selected to be framed and viewed, sleeved into my regular film plastic sleeves, impossible or very hard to remove later, and the amount of plastic frames piling up over time (not to speak of the difficulty of obtaining them). I only wish that this product would somehow accept a roll without being put into a frame.

Does anyone understand what I mean? If you project slides, how do you manage it?

Thank you.

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52 minutes ago, gabrielaszalos said:

putting them into plastic frames each time I want to view them on the projector is really putting me off.

Each time? You only do this once. I actually like framing slides. It's the first time I find out if my ideas worked out as imagined.

52 minutes ago, gabrielaszalos said:

I am imagining all the frames that weren't selected to be framed and viewed, sleeved into my regular film plastic sleeves

I did this for a few years. Then I noticed that I never viewed any of my deselected slides again. From then on I only kept those slides that I thought were worth framing. I keep my 35mm slides in LKM magazines and my 6x7 slides in Kunze Journal magazines. I still have a sufficient stock of new slides frames and magazines.   

[d30gaijin]

Leica/Leitz did make a film roll adapter for some of their older slide projectors but I do not recall what the part number or name was called.  It was not for any slide projector that used a tray to feed slides.  Only for the old projectors that were fed single slides in just behind the projector lens.  Not much help, sorry.

[ph.]

Plastic frames with glass keeps the film flat when heated by the light. The more recent pradovit projectors, even the newer, less battleship-strong versions produced after Leitz bought the Zett werke, have  better illumination systems than the old prado projectors. Also, the 90mm Colorplan, (Elmarit type) optics  are far better than the ancient ones, so for unmatched experience of your past snapshots, the pradovit  P2002  or the  ,many quite similar ones with other names with the colorplan P2 is the one to get. Probably quite cheap by now since very few use  analog projectors (but then they have not experienced how much better than digital projectors they are.

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[RussF78704]

 

Years ago, I bought a box of 35mm glass slide film mounts.  Not sure if these are still available but possibly on websites like Ebay. 

I bought two Pradix projectors on Ebay, including one with the 50mm "wide angle" lens and projector.  I also bought a Pradix "chassis" for parts.  Hope my wife doesn't find this stuff.