Is the Slide Projector a Dinosaur?

PeakXV

Had some friends & family over for dinner the other night & with much searching located the 35mm slide projector. It had a few year's layers of dust on it but the remote control, carriage rotation, & bulb all worked fine .... so put a little Indian music on, lit some nag champa incense and put on a bit of a India 'photo show'.

IMO nothing like hearing that mechanical click, click & whir of the projector & seeing those almost life size images magically appearing on the 'big white screen' with a slightly smokey ambience.

Somehow the computer/TV slide show - digital equivalent doesn't compare to the old technology and was wondering if there are any new & exciting technologies on the horizon or that IM'ers are now using to display their trip photos in a captivating way to others?

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Sama

I give the camera's memory card and some Indian fushion music CDs to a graphic designer friend and he puts my pics and music on a DVD and makes me a show of "My India"...

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missalg

I was a fan of slides; now I do a DVD on iMac (with transitions, music, titles, etc.) and project it with a DVD projector...Similar to slides in the effect, just a few more bells and whistles! (I have the DVD projector for school.)

I still have my slide projector, though!

puchoo

used it everyday during my MBA days. While projectors were available the school was always hesitant to give it, believe they are still widely used..

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amarama

I grew up on those old style projectors. I really miss them. Growing up we would shoot are own action movies. It was nice not to have sound, I have fond memories of people I have not seen in 30 years, or will never see again. The old movies seemed to capture time better. Now the family movies have lost something, because you can hear what everyone is saying it takes the imagination out of it. I will alway smile when I hear the old projector going.

wonderwomanusa

It's not so easy to find slide film these days...

Nick-H

Slides were wonderful.

Unfortunately our family screen (older than me) and projector went with my mother's house contents --- much regretted. I still have the slides from family holidays fifty-plus years ago though.

Getting them digitised will probably be on the to-do list for another fifty years. It rather lost its priority when my mum died; she would have loved to have had a DVD.

If I ever do it, though, I must remember the click, whir soundtrack. Thanks Peak!

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PeakXV

I think we learned our first four letter words courtesy of the slide show experience. You see our Dad always seemed to get a finger caught in the spring loaded support for the white screen and often soothed his pain with a vented verbal volley.

Yes ....making an MP3 recording of that electro-mechanical symphony/preamble might be useful before finally throwing the projector on the junk heap ..... then, as missalg wisely suggests, invest in a DVD projector and 'produce' your own slide show on the computer.