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Re: A Potential Problem?

Well, Jeff
The handwriting is not only on the wall before us.... it is being pushed down our wallets. I needed a couple of new slide trays for new presentations coming up this spring. Went to my favorite office supply store as usual. Nope..... in their catalog, but discontinued and not a single try in to be located at any store in this region. They help did check. Went over to a large local professional camera store. Nope ... they suggested I contact a used camera store as slide trays were so out of date. Looked at me like I was a dinosaur..... I am, but not extinct as of yet. Earlier this past summer we talked about how Kodak had stopped making projectors.
Every presentation I give at Universities or State owned parks, etc are set up for digital first and slides second. Some of the schools that are used for large auditoriums have digital only and I take my own projector. No longer do I assume anything on equipment.
I have a new Canon digital, will begin this spring with it as back up, but 35mm slides are still the only way to knock their socks off in color and detail. I will eventually make the change when I have to, but for now ..... speakers and personalities are expected to be a bit eccentric... may as well use it.
Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5 Southern Indiana

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Ball" <jeffball@starband.net>
some snips.....
In the past six months, at least three sources of 35mm slides of new
plants dried up.  Ball Seed, Darwin, and recently Netherland Bulb
Information Center.  They say that all the images are available in
various qualities on their web site.  They suggest that if someone needs
35mm slides, the garden writer can take the electronic image to a
service bureau and pay to make the 35mm slide; so the garden writer is
going to spend an extra $10 or $20 for a talk that earns only $200? I
don't think so.

I don't know how many garden writers in this country make presentations
with 35mm slides, but I suspect it is a goodly number.  I also suspect
that few garden writers are using Power Point for presentations,  first
because the projectors are still too expensive and secondly because the
color quality of the projected image sucks.
Jeff Ball


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