Glad to help, Tom.
On Jun 16, 2006, at 10:58 AM, Tom Reese wrote:
>> From a mechanical perspective, the "professional" quality slide
>> projection system was a disaster.
>
> We've conducted slide contests for years without any problems at
> all and we'll continue those.
I suspect you have a well maintained projector system and people
familiar with setting it up and using it. I was shocked at how much
of a mess the event I described was with regard to the slide projector.
> My question was about adding digital projections to the competition
> in order to allow more people to participate. Some of our members
> shoot digitally and don't have the equipment, expertise or $ to
> produce medium to large prints for our club competitions. I want to
> afford ALL members the opportunity to participate in the contests
> from point and shooters on up. Digital projection would provide
> that opportunity.
>
> I don't want to create another digital projector category because
> the contests take too long now. It's a fast easy process to switch
> projectors on the stand and combining slides and digital projection
> into one contest seems to be a relatively simple thing to do.
The keys to success are:
- choose the right digital projector with good imaging quality for
the venue you
will be displaying in.
- set up a computer and the projector to work together well.
Calibrate the
projector if possible. (It's useful to at least have a test image
with grayscale
step wedge and color bars to make projection time adjustments.)
- pick good software to manage the presentation of the digital images
- test the whole setup before the event to debug it.
If you do this, and you have a well worked out slide projection
system, it's easy to switch between them.
Godfrey
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