Peter Gebhard

During the production process of my first digital photo film report "The Iceland Adventure", I was concerned for weeks by the nightmare of never-ending image editing and frequent calibration. Despite the many interesting new options, the new ground held a whole lot of traps in store for me. Once I had got over the initial technical obstacles, I was finally able to devote my full concentration to the reproduction quality of the Leica Pradovit D-1200 for my first major presentations. And it was absolutely fantastic: While brightness, definition and brilliance were breathtaking even for an image width of 7 m, what enthralled me most was the projector's outstandingly natural colour rendering.

As the speaker, I am always the person standing closest to the projected image during a presentation and therefore the person most likely to spot any defects in reproduction quality. Of course, the information density and intermediate shades of a projected slide are still as excellent as ever, but the (correspondingly magnified) specks of dust and partial defocus due to heat and too much tolerance inside the glass windows of the slide frame have always been a problem when presenting analog shows. What a relief not to be confronted with that any longer! Another pleasant surprise was the superlative definition even of small jpgs combined with a well-balanced and natural colour rendering, something that never fails to thrill me every time I do a show.

An additional plus of the Leica Pradovit D-1200 is its smart, handy size. When they see it for the first time, most people don't realise its great capabilities. In my new photo film live report THE ICELAND ADVENTURE, I notice many people out of the audience, totally impressed by the first part of the show, sizing up the Pradovit D-1200 in disbelief from a respectful distance during the break. In one presentation, the projector stood on one of my big Zarges aluminum boxes. In the break I heard two viewers who were convinced that the whole object including the aluminum box must be the projector. But no, the Pradovit D-1200 is not the periscope of a great big shiny silver monster - this little masterpiece contains everything needed to project a digital show to optical perfection!