projecting digital images

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Geoffrey Pocock

Hello

Perhaps this is the wrong forum but here goes.

Like everyone else who uses this newsgroup I am busy scanning. I have a
large collection of 35mm Kodachrome II slides of the Alps and I find the
group very helpful in getting the best out of these.

Nowadays, I use a digital camera but I would like to keep on giving slide
shows. My experience with LCD projectors is about 100 years old so I need
advice. What will a digital image look like when projected with a modern LCD
projector in a modest sized room on to a white screen?

Secondly, I have a simple device to put images on my TV screen. It has a
video output. Could I use this with an LCD projector - ie I want to download
stored digital images from my hard disk to a flash card and use this as my
"slide cassette" . This way I would not need a laptop computer.




Yours sincerely

Geoffrey Pocock
 
Hello

Perhaps this is the wrong forum but here goes.

Like everyone else who uses this newsgroup I am busy scanning. I have a
large collection of 35mm Kodachrome II slides of the Alps and I find the
group very helpful in getting the best out of these.

Nowadays, I use a digital camera but I would like to keep on giving slide
shows. My experience with LCD projectors is about 100 years old so I need
advice.

That predates most of us by 900% ...
What will a digital image look like when projected with a modern LCD
projector in a modest sized room on to a white screen?

Rather depends upon the resolution of the image, that of the projector, the
dimness of the room, the output (lumens) of the projector and the screen
gain (if any).
Secondly, I have a simple device to put images on my TV screen. It has a
video output.

Think low resolution ... Kodak instamatic vs. Nikon (Leica) 35mm.
Could I use this with an LCD projector - ie I want to download
stored digital images from my hard disk to a flash card and use this as my
"slide cassette" . This way I would not need a laptop computer.

Yep, low quality. Flash cards aren't (yet) standard inputs on a projector.
They would then also need processing to recognize and convert the various
image formats.
 
I'm very much interested in the same question, although I did get to project
some of my images on an LCD projector in a conference room last month. The
room was too light to get much of an impression, but it looked at least sorta
promising.

With respect to your video output device, if you mean composite video or S-video,
I suspect you will be disappointed. My Compaq laptop has an S-video output,
and still images through this port look really, really bad to me even on a
fairly decent projection HDTV. Same thing on the PCMCIA-to-S-video converter
I have tried with other laptops. The VGA monitor output looks much better on
my one data point so far.

Gary Hunt <[email protected]>
 
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