All good info, Mike! I appreciate all these fresh (to me) points of view. Stuff I didn't know until now. I'll add that good stuff to my list of "How to prepare and view slides in the 21st Century." <g>
keith Michael Perham wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Keith Whaley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: August 10, 2003 11:45 AM > ....Anyhow, the one reason I don't shoot slides today is the heavy > inconvenience. One just doesn't show slides anymore (well, I don't anyhow.) > "Hey! C'mon over tonight, Gerri and I are going to be showing our Hawaii > pictures!"Uh huh..."Uhhh, what do you mean, 'showing?'"You can't take your > slide projector to a restaurant or a bar. > > Response: But nothing competes with that big, bright projected image. Well > maybe a 36" HDTV image from a j-peg file. > All of which (maybe) points to needing a way to view slides different from > what I have. At least that comes to mind as a potential solution. > Response: Software to make a slide show on to a CD that you can play on > your DVD player and view on your TV is cheap. > Also, unless slides are the desired end product, what about prints, for > sharing or particularly sending to family out of state? Is printing from > slides as costly as it once was? Very time consuming, waiting for the photo > shop to send them to a Kodak place... > Response: My local "digital" one hour lab does a fantastic job of prints > and does up to 8" X 12" on site and very reasonably. > How about converting to digital? I know nothing at all about costs or the > inconvenience factors associated therewith. > > Response: I find I get better quality scanning slides than I do negatives... > perhaps just my scanner. But now I use my Optio 430RS for all the > snapshots, so much easier to store and file (read locate) and I shoot > transparency film almost exclusively in my MZ-S. Perhaps if I attend a > wedding etc., I would load up with Portra 160. Also I think It costs about > $1.00 a shot plus the cost of your CD to have slides scanned... I wouldn't > go the Kodak route though, most labs will do that in j-peg format. > Cheers! Mike.
