Re: Kodak slide projectors to be discontinued
- Subject: Re: [GWL] Kodak slide projectors to be discontinued
- From: Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp h*@earthlink.net
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 07:39:54 -0500
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This is indeed sad. I use a slide projector, too. I don't have a PowerPoint projector or a laptop. Most of the places I speak don't have the new projectors either. I also worry about how much space such a program with the slides (80 to 140 or more, sometimes) I use for talks would take up on my computer.
Digital is coming, though. The last few years, more and more people who give presentations have used PowerPoint programs. However, when participants are asked to evaluate the talks, those with PowerPoints get lower marks for several reasons.
* PowerPoint programs tend to be text heavy. Participants have to read the screen and take whatever notes are relevant, as well as listen to what the speaker is saying and perhaps taking more notes.
* The handouts from PowerPoints are non-existent or multi-pages. Again, if the handouts reflect the screen, there's a lot of text to digest while still listening to the speaker and making notes.
* The resolution of photos/slides on a PowerPoint program is not nearly as good as it is in a slide presentation.
jems
Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
Garden writer, speaker, photographer
Director, Region III Garden Writers Association
Phone: 317.251.3261
Fax: 317.251.8545
E-mail: hoosiergardener@earthlink.net
It is sad to see the slide projector go. We discussed this indirectly at the GWA symposium in Chicago at a Power Point and Digital Camera workshops. Photographers were polled about using digital instead of 35mm SLR or large format cameras. The concensus was that the stock photographers (Saxon Holt said this if I remember correctly) felt that they probably would be forced to digital eventually, but all said transparencies had better resolution. The same was said about the slide projector versus a digital image projected with Power Point. The sharpness and the "oh, wow" factors were not there. As a garden writer who also does many slide presentations at shows and before paying audiences, I feel that the slide projector gives my audiences a better view. The digital image lacks clearness, size in many cases and saturation of color. I guess I'm going to have to stock up on projector bulbs and buy an extra projector! Doreen Howard, who is suddenly feeling like a dinosaur _______________________________________________ gardenwriters mailing list gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/gardenwriters GWL has searchable archives at: http://www.hort.net/lists/gardenwriters Send photos for GWL to gwlphotos@hort.net to be posted at: http://www.hort.net/lists/gwlphotos Post gardening questions/threads to "Organic-Gardening" <organic-gardening@lists.ibiblio.org> For GWL website and Wiki, go to http://www.ibiblio.org/gardenwriters
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