Subj : Digital Projectors
To   : ALL
From : JAY EMRIE
Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 11:57 pm

Our Camera Club is in the process of seriously getting into digital
photography. Not just using a digital camera and PhotoShop (which many
or maybe most of us already do now) but projecting digital images via a
digital projector for judging in our competitions

Slide film is getting harder to buy locally already. One of the larger
Camera stores here had only ONE, that's right ONE, roll of 35mm slide
film for sale the other day. approximately 80% of their display space
consisted of pure digital!

I believe it will be necessary to buy a digital projector with the
best specs with reference to first, resolution, then contrast
ratio, then brightness in that order.

Brightness isn't too great a consideration since our projection distance
will be approximately 15'.

Contrast ratio is of considerable importance but it seems that even the
cheaper digital projectors have good contrast ratios i.e. 2100:1 so that
isn't much of a worry.

The biggie is resolution. It looks like 1024 x 768 is the tops till one
gets over ABOUT $1500. Dell's top of the line has native 1400 x 1050
SXGA+ and Auto Sync up to UXGA 1600 x 1200 but the price tag is
$3,500!!!

Keeping this more on topic is the program necessary for doing the
digital projection.

Power Point just will not cut the mustard. It didn't take much use of it
to prove that point. Neither will ACDSee. Neither project the
image quality we must have.

So far PicturesToEXE (http://wnsoft.com/apr/index.html) seems to be the
best choice. It works with 95 on up thru XP and seems to do everything we
desire for our use.

Any suggestions as to the projector and/or program would be welcomed.

Jay


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