P3D Projection Lenses

[Rod Sage <rsage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I am, lonely projector guy way in the back...  Okay, so why not just quit
>whining and get, say, 4-inch lenses?  Or, better yet, 3-inch lenses!  Well,
>there were/are stock standard TDC manufactured 4-inch lenses given your
>willingness to part with more hard earned cash.  There are not 3-inch lenses
>and per my fooling around with the TDC it looks as though it will only
>accept 3-inch lenses if you do some serious mods to the lens housing shell
>whatever-you-call-it casting, like cut the back half of the damn thing off.

Someone in our stereo club demonstrated his TDC projector into which he
mounted a pair of 75mm (<3") Nikkor enlarging lenses. The image quality
was amazing. Big, bright and clear! He had to machine the barrels to
fit, which was quite a job. Cost of used Nikkor 75mm is not too cheap. I
have 4" lenses on one of my TDC 116s and they work quite well. They can
fill a 50" screen from about 12'.
RDS


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