Re: OT: scanners & Digital projectors

In a message dated 12/17/2003 1:54:06 AM Central Standard Time, 
bentfork@neb.rr.com writes:
Also, do you or anyone else have any suggestions for digital projectors? 
I am interested in one that would be a good choice for showing 
presentations of iris pics in a powerpoint program, etc.  Any help on 
good resolution, lumen, contrast parameters to look for would be much 
appreciated.  

Gary, several years ago we got a promotional "deal" with our laptop for a 
Epson Powerlite 50C projector (which is no longer in production) and have been 
very pleased with it.  We do PowerPoint programs with it frequently, especially 
of iris, and now many of our friends are putting together PP programs (they 
are very easy) and we just bring the equipment.  The standard for this type of 
projector seems to be resolution of 800 x 600 pixels and 1200 lumens which is 
very good for our purposes no matter what size the room.  It is light weight, 
easy to cart around and we more than pleased with it.  There is a good website  
for comparisons at www.projectorcentral.com but they aren't cheap ($1500 to 
$2000) unless you get a promo deal like we did.  We loved being the first kid 
on the block with it and Tom did an auction at the 2002 Memphis Convention, 
along with Lorena Reid who did the JI program on hers.

We only take digital pics but scan lots of other people's slides for 
publications.  Since I am paranoid about losing other people's slides, we have always 
had them copied, and the price has come down dramatically for this service at 
a good photo place.  Most recently Tom has been using other peoples scanners 
to do them himself and finally chose to buy the Prime Film 1800 U 
(CompUSA-$199) as it is specifically designed for slides/film, not a retrofit on a regular 
scanner, tho the HP seems to be fine according to our friends who use one. We 
scan at a pretty high res because we use many slides for publication and the 
printer we use prefers tif files rather than jpeg, which are just fine for 
websites or PP presentations.  We use Adobe Photoshop for conversions and it works 
dandy.

This is probably more than you all wanted to know but after spending several 
hours in the electronic depts of several stores (shopping is my LEAST favorite 
things to do) and many hours on-line looking at the options, we find there 
are a few Christmas bargains on scanners but mostly between $100 to $300 for 
acceptable quality.  If you don't already have a good "regular scanner" (we do), 
you should take that into account instead of getting a "slide specific" 
scanner as we did.

Rita Gormley
Editor of SJI REVIEW etc.
Gormley Greenery
Cedar Hill, MO
Zone 5 (snow all gone but icy here)

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