Bryce Lee writes: > I take only colour slides, of railways. > > Was given a Canon G2 digital last Christmas, as a gift. > > The camera which is basically a point and shoot with upgrades, is nice, > however for me who prefers colour slides, not my preference.
It's far more than a point and shoot. It does everything that any 35 mm SLR does, with two exceptions. One, it does not have interchangeable lenses - however, the 35-105 �2 lens it does have is the most useful range. Two, its only a 4MP camera, so 20x24 enlargements aren't likely. (However, suberb projections should be.) Referring to any of these mid to high range prosumer cameras as a point and shoot is just pure snobbery. > Kodak has announced as of June 2004, they shall no longer produce slide > projectors. They the manufacturer of Kodak Carousel machines in various guises > over the last forty odd years. > > So for those of us in the Apple realm , and those of us who wish to show > images, on a large screen, to others, where does that leave us? Well, there's several options. One: you could go out and buy half a dozen projectors, which should last you for many years into the future. Two: Just because Kodak is ceasing manufacture, doesn't mean everyone is. You could look on this as a chance to move up in lens quality and purchase a Leica projector. > > Powerpoint is one option using a laptop and a video projector. > > All images would either have to be scanned using a slide/image scanner, or > they would be available as a digital image, direct from the camera. > > Myself I have no love for anything Microsoft and PowerPoint is one of their > products. Incidentally have seen Powerpoint used, with a Prehistoric Computer > and a video projector. It was OK, however no where near as stunning a show of > images as one would obtain from using the original colour slides. First, speaking as someone whose income is partly based on stock photography, I have to ask why you would be projecting your original transparencies? A total of 30 seconds time in a slide projector is all it takes to show visible degradation in the slide. But in more direct answer to your question, I think you may be getting things confused - or perhaps I'm misunderstanding your wording. Powerpoint is presentation software. It has no effect on the quality of image. However, the video projector certainly does, and since you referred to a prehistoric computer, no doubt the projector was of similar vintage. And, of course the quality of the scan is important as well, but we'll get to that. > I don't have a flatop or a digital scanner, and have not seen images so > rendered on any other flatop or slide scanner as really great. Then you haven't seen an image from a high-end scanner. Like anything in photography, the quality of anything in the light path of an image has a direct effect on the quality of the viewed image. I would suggest the Nikon Coolscan as being the best of the midrange models. But to return to digital cameras here, a good digital camera (which you have) is by far the best, low cost way to get images to the big screen. You immediately cut out steps in the workflow which can lower image quality unless you have the best (read expensive) equipment. > > So are there options to PowerPoint? My own gut feeling is anything from > Microsoft is garbage; hence I stay well away from anything of MS; I know it's rude to be so blunt, and I apologize, but your gut feeling is wrong. There are certainly many reasons to stay away from MS, but their Mac software is of good quality. PowerPoint is a good example. The reason it caught on so well is its ease of use. > however suspect somewhere, somehow there are programs equal to or yes (not > difficult) better than PowerPoint, user friendly to Macs and probably a whole > lot less in cost. If you really want a presentation application, there's Apple's Keynote, of course. And I believe the AppleWorks suite of tools includes presentation software. But I have a feeling that you probably don't want all the bells and whistles of the presentation software. In that case, almost every image viewer application has a slideshow mode. JpegView, Image Buddy, GraphicConvertor, iView, ACDSee, the list is endless. All these apps off various degrees of control over the slide show, but luckily they also almost all have demo versions, so you can figure out which one meets your needs. Cheers - Steve K. -- Mac Canada is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop Canadian, visit Mantek Services <http://www.mantek.mb.ca> Low Prices That Will Keep YOU and Your MAC Smiling Educational discounts are now available Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Canada info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-can.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-canada%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
