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Re: Kodak slide projectors to be discontinued


Hello everyone:

Digital is here folks.  As you may have read before, I gave up 35mm after having my Nikon go bad and losing 25 rolls of film of private estates in the Philadelphia area.  I swore off 35mm right then and there because I need to see the image immediately after I take it.  

The good news about PowerPoint is that you can put more than one image on a slide and by using "Custom animation - effects" in imaginative ways. You can create a very informative and entertaining program with many images on one slide. For example if I wanted to show the ten or so different varieties of Clethra alnifolia I can put four or five images on one slide.  This way I only have two different slides with all the examples v.s. ten different slides. As for the handouts, I always give them the same information that they find on the screen -- that way they don't have to take notes.  Everything they see they have already written down for them.  You can actually present more information in a usable format that they can use at a later date.  That way they spend more time listening and watching (and learning) than writing.  

As for the resolution -- I heartily disagree.  More than twenty magazine articles were published last year with my name on them and I give on average of 2-3 presentations (large and small) a week.  The resolution is incredible provided your camera is 4+ megapixel.  Don't try to use a camera with <4 megapixel and expect a clear picture.

You don't need a laptop.  I have a Dell Axim PDA ( my PalmV died)  which measures 3" x 6" x 3/4" and I can hook it up directly to the LCD projector.  My Dell projector is only 2 inches thick and the size of a small book.  It is 1300 lumens and that is bright enough to show a bright, detailed slide show with the room lights on.  Yes it is expensive up-front but a few lectures and its paid for.  

Robert Bowden
Director
Leu Botanical Gardens
Orlando
www.leugardens.org




Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp <hoosiergardener@earthlink.net>
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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
>
>
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