Yes to both. I still use a slide projector in my University lecturing, despite pressure to switch to Powerpoint: the detail resolution is way better. If I take a picture that I know I am likely to want to project I usually take more than one image, so that I have one to archive and at least one to project.
David.
Me too, in my own classroom, and I'll often shoot several duplicates of a slide I plan to project. But it's getting harder and harder, particularly at conferences or when I'm giving a visiting lecture, where they've got a computer set up for projection and everyone just brings their images on a flash drive, usually because they don't know how to make their own slides and they just take stuff off the web or scan illustrations from books. Another issue is that sometimes I need to show something that's only easily available in electronic form, and it's easier to scan my 35mm slides than to make slides from a relatively low-resolution image available on the internet.
I shoot LF 4x5 and MF 6x7 or 6x8 and rarely 35mm. But for all I shoot predominantly slides, view them on a lightbox, and scan/process only the best. My projector hasn't been removed from the closet in years. The reason for shooting slides: Velvia most commonly used film (along with Astia and Provia).
-Glenn-
Projecting slides, even using a old Ektagraphic AF2 still beats any video projector I've seen. Projected slided are obviously more vibrant.
But I've not seen all the video projectors yet, and I'm curious if anyone knows of a digital projection system better than, or as good as a slide projector.
I shot 1200 slides in India in October and I've projected them all several times now to various family and friends - As long as you construct a decent slection and weed out duplication (nobody wants to see or is interested in your bracketing!) and the subject is interesting, it can be very entertaining.
There isn't really a better way see slides - projected 5ft wide in a darkened room - it feels like you are looking through a window.
Matt
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Sometimes is my Leica Pradovit P-150 instead of television. I really like to shot diafilm, process it at home, mount into slides (CS only), all by myself. My kids like to watch projections.
I have also Malinverno 6X6 autofocus medium format projector, but I really do not use it as often as Pradovit.
I might start shooting slides and developing E-6. I have processed E-2 and E-4 film in the past.
Steve
Finally, another APUG member old enough to have done E-2 thru E-4 slide processing. If you remember those processes, then doing E-6 will be like a vacation, it is so easy. I started processing with E-2 also, as a kid.
After 30+ years of shooting and projecting slides almost exclusively, I have migrated more of my shooting toward medium format and 4x5 (both negs and chromes).
My 35mm slide shooting has slowed, but not disappeared. Also, I have acquired a passion to produce computer-based multi-media presentations from my images from all film types and formats. I used to do it with only 35mm slides, but the improved quality of the HDTV displays (and presentation software) has made the ability to use all of my formats possible and more cost effective.
I still enjoy an original projection of a color slide (which is why I still have one 35mm projector around), but the development of HDTV grade multimedia presentations from a mix of 35mm, MF and LF negs is an enjoyable pursuit too.
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Still shoot and then review the slides on a projector. The ones in the initial cut are then taken to the light table and further sorted. The remaining are then scanned with a Nikon Coolscan 5000 ED. Some are printed others are shared, very few are burned and sent to places like A&I for professional quality printing.
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