disc@homxb.UUCP (Scott J. Berry) (02/25/85)
Hi there! I'm beginning to look around at slide projectors (at long last), and am seeking advice on which kind to buy. The Kodak Carousel seems the most popular, and replacement "trays" will surely be available indefinately. However, the (Bell & Howell?) slide cube system seems more economical from a storage point of view, as well as being easier to load and handle. Can anybody recommend either one over the other? Is the slide delivery system better for one than the other? What about reliability considerations? Are prices competitive for comparably equipped models? Thanks in advance, Scott J. Berry ...!homxb!disc
rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (02/25/85)
[] I suggest you do what I did when I was going thru the same agonizing. Everyone knows how well the carousels work as everyone must have used one someplace, sometime. So, don't listen to advice. Don't stop to ask yourself why carousels dominate the market without an antitrust proceedings. Just go out and borrow or rent a Bell and Howell. Take it home and try to use it even one evening. While you're at it, be sure to leave at least one cube partially filled. You won't believe the fun things you will witness with your own eyes. Crank the lens elevation up and down (yeah,why move the whole machine?) A really neat idea! Except for one small detail which only seeing will reveal. I think you, like me, will be unable to get rid of the B&H fast enough. BTW. Carousel trays are way too low density and way too expensive for permanent storage. I should know, having at least umpteen cubic feet of them. However, there is a stack loader for the carousel that works on "cube-sized" bundles of slides. It doesn't flip the slides around joyously the way the B&H does, but it does share the limitation that you can't back up. Anyhow, storage trays are available for bunches of slides that are at least as dense as B&H cubes. You can show the slides directly on the stack loader or drop them into carousel trays - not such an onerous task as you might imagine, given that you might want a peek at them before you show them. -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg
herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS]) (02/26/85)
In article <529@homxb.UUCP> disc@homxb.UUCP (Scott J. Berry) writes: >The Kodak Carousel seems the most popular, and replacement "trays" >will surely be available indefinately. However, the (Bell & Howell?) >slide cube system seems more economical from a storage point of view, >as well as being easier to load and handle. > > Scott J. Berry > ...!homxb!disc bell and howell no longer makes the slide cube system. if you see any around, it is old stock from some factory. unless you are prepared to invest a lot and buy literally hundred of cubes at the same time, you are far better off to buy a kodak or some other slide system. Herb Chong... I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble.... UUCP: {decvax|utzoo|ihnp4|allegra|clyde}!watmath!water!watdcsu!herbie CSNET: herbie%watdcsu@waterloo.csnet ARPA: herbie%watdcsu%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa NETNORTH, BITNET, EARN: herbie@watdcs, herbie@watdcsu
ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (02/27/85)
I second the discovery about the Hell and Bowel slide cubes, a friend one had one. I own an old GAF projector that uses SAWYERS trays. Mostly because I can't afford a carousel. The advantage of long term storage of you slides in things other than Carousels is that you won't be tempted to get them out and show them that way. 140 Slides is a lot. I've got 1300 slides that I shot while I was in high school (I did manage to travel a great deal). The whole thing distills down to about 4 trays that is presentable. Some of it isn't worth seeing, some of it is repetitious (I was shooting animals). -Ron