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Someone gave me a slide projector a few days ago and I'm having the best time looking at my slides projected on a wall. I've never seen them anywhere except in a slide printer when I made polaroid transfers. It really blew me away seeing them so big for the first time. And they were shot over 5yrs ago. Who knew slide projector were so much fun? (not so much fun loading and unloading though). Makes me want to shoot slide film!
They even included a home made remote control that looks like it could detonate a car bomb.

Do they even make slide film anymore?

Yes put the selection is getting limited
http://www.henrys.ca/categories/241-col ... -film.aspx

Developing is also getting limited also a bit more expensive plus mounting is about $4 more per roll then normal film.

http://www.torontoimageworks.com/film_processing.html

Some more slide projector fun

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I've been doing that with digital projectors now, and it's great since you can create any image you want using a paint program...you don't have to use an already existing image.

Factory Direct and the like have a cheap projector for $60-$75 which accepts analog composite video...don't know how good it is since it just uses a low wattage halogen bulb.

Found these old shots from when I used to operate slide projectors...this one is from the projection booth at the camera club I belong to (it's a 180 seat auditorium):


And this one is from one of our newsletters...the top left was from a Simon Bell 3D show, the projectors had polarizers on them two zero degrees and two 90 degrees and the people wore polarized sunglasses also with one lens zero degrees and the other 90 degrees...and top right is Ray Anderson setting up for a 16 projector slide show...the idea is sometimes one projector would fill the entire screen, sometimes two images would be on the screen at once, sometimes three, four, five, etc:


I don't know what was worse, slide projector jams, or computer glitches today!

I use to program and run 32 projector shows. Still have a garage full of projectors, dissolve units, etc.

Sounds like an adhoc event

lol. The great part of that job was running meeting in the Bahamas, etc in Feb. ....and the expense acct.

I have tons of projectors here at my audio/visual department -- have always wanted to setup some kind of multi-media slideshow installation. I may still do something like that in the future.

I still shoot 35mm slide film from time to time, though not as much as I have wanted.
Quality just blowing my digital camera away.
But lens are definitely play the biggest part, besides your own hands and eyes.

Reversal film is also a good test of your skill, since it practically does not tolerate any mistakes, unlike regular negative film.

I still have a huge amount of 35mm slide film in my fridge.... need to get shooting it.

I just finished all mine... can't afford to shoot slides too often, even packed my film scanner (far, far away from my kid).
Get a weird urge sometimes to sell my digital camera and spend the money on slides

I've also restored few years ago a family heirloom 6x9 Bessa (similar to this one http://bp0.blogger.com/_xGUz4ltpoaE/SGf3vvy9iNI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/S2Yb32hF4wM/s400/VOITG.BESSA.jpg),
so keep roll of 120mm of reversal film for a good subject.

film scanner eh? Anyone want to trade a slide projector for the use of a film scanner?

Hmm, sorry, not me.
I would love to help, but not when it comes to things like (pro)lens or film scanner.
In general, things that are too fragile or have fairly short lifespan.

You are probably aware, but just in case - film scanners can be rented.
Vistek has them for sure.

Also, my brother highly praises one of the mail-in bulk scanning services.
Apparently, they produce high quality scans fast and very cheap. If you or anyone is interested I can ask him for the website address.

Personally though, I would rather work on scanning myself. There are so many options available that it becomes main post production tool, more so then Photoshop.
I am also no so fond of giving out developed film anywhere and only deal with one physical location lab, especially after incident at Henry's many years ago, when their contractor lab "lost" one frame from the film
(I was waiting for 30 minutes to take that one shot and it just happened to disappear... in a middle of the roll too).

no worries. I don't trust sending my negs/slides away either.

anyone selling a slide projector? what do you look for when u get one and how much do they go for?

i just got 6 rolls of kodachrome back and have 4 more rolls to shoot.

The problem with older Kodak carousel projectors there's a ceramic resistor near the fan port that cracks and degrades over time, and starts spitting out particles...you can actually see the condition of it with a flashlight looking through the fan port on the back of the projector; I have a bunch of resistors and replacing them.

Also you want to make sure the mechanism runs smoothly...sometimes since it's all mechanical a lever sticks and it just keeps advancing on its own.

If it's autofocus, see if it works properly with non-glass mounted slides...you have to manually focus the first one, and then it should focus for the rest of them, again unless they are glass mounted; then you have to turn off the AF.

I've got some Elmos for sale and a Kodak Ektragraphic B-2 slide projector
complete and working with remote.