>Subject: EOS Projected digital images vs slides > >I'm betting someone here has experience with this, and I don't have an easy >way of making the comparison myself. I'm really curious as to how a >digital image projected onto a screen with a media projector, powerpoint or >whatever, compares with a chemical slide projected with a traditional >projector. Is there the same sense of luminosity (one of the great things >about slides IMO)? Is there a significant difference in image degradation >at these large sizes? Any other comments welcome. > >Ken
I've always been a big slide shooter. I have about 45 140-slide carousels loaded with slides. I've been slowly converting to digital over the past few years but one of my last hurdles was how to view them on the big screen. My viewing screen is rather small at around 6ft but there's just nothing that compares to the impact of a bright, crisp chrome on the big screen. About 2 years ago B&H was running a special on a Sanyo 1024x768 (native) LCD project for $1700 and I bought it. The results have been nothing short of impressive. Since the projector has a native resolution of 1024x768 it is a perfect match for my Dell laptop which is also 1024x768. So on each of my Photo CD's I include a directory of images resampled to 1024x768 since the best results are always achieved if the native resolution of the image matches the display and projector. I also keep the original full-sized images on the CD. A lot of my family who view my slides are completely computer illiterate and wouldn't know a hard disk from a modem. So many of them didn't even understand that I was showing my slides somehow "differently". But almost all of them commented that recently my "slides" looked different somehow. I asked them if the difference was good or bad and they commented VERY GOOD. They thought recently the images were sharper and more vibrant. All since using the digital projector. So my conversion to digital is complete. Now instead of hauling out stack after stack of carousels I simply grab my 3-ring binder which contains all my photo CD's. I can flip through multiple albums with ease. Plus I can do something I could never do with my old Kodak Carousel projector -- I can also show VIDEO through the projector onto the big screen. I can project video from the DVD player or MPEG/AVI's from the laptop. As other posters have mentioned, the prices of LCD projectors varies greatly. You pay a LOT of money for bright, high-resolution projectors. Even though my inexpensive projector is 1024x768 it is not a mega-bright bulb. It is fine in a darkened room but it is not bright enough for a well-lit room. That of course is fine with me. So while 1024x768 is only 786K pixels, it sure looks great on the big screen. My digital equipment is mostly Canon. I started out with a D30 and for the past two years have been using a 1D. I hope this information helps. - John * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
