djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor) (11/01/89)
My boss has seen a few ads for "Make Your Own Slides From PC Screens" lately, and wants me to pursue the idea and check on costs, decent products, etc. My impression was that you could get Polaroid Pallette or some such setup but it would cost in the $1000-$2000 neighborhood, so I was never interested. Are any of you using any slidemaking setups that you're pleased with? What's the equipment and what did it cost? I'll summarize any email responses for those of you on the net who might also have an occasional interest. Thanks for the help! "Moby" Dick O'Connor ** DISCLAIMER: It would Washington Department of Fisheries ** surprise me if the Olympia, Washington 98504 ** rest of the Department Internet Mail: djo7613@blake.u.washington.edu ** agreed with any of this!
wek@point.UUCP (Bill Kuykendall) (11/02/89)
>My boss has seen a few ads for "Make Your Own Slides From PC Screens" lately, >and wants me to pursue the idea and check on costs, decent products, etc. I spent a lot of time last year researching this for my company. We had a couple of cameras in on evaluation, including the Pallette and the Montage, only to discover that the quality was not what we were used to from our slide making contractor. We eventually learned that in order to maintain the sharpness of the focus all the way to the edge of the slide, the lens needs to be much larger than the slide itself. The contractor's camera had a 5 inch lens, while the units we were testing had 40 or 50 mm lenses. The contractor's camera cost $70,000 -- a bit much for our needs. What we finally decided to do was do the artwork in house with Harvard Graphics and modem the slide show to our contractor. We get them back the next day, and they cost $7.50 each (we used to pay $50-60 when they did it all). If we had our own camera, we'd still have to pay for developing at $2.50 each, a pc would be tied up for around 6 minutes per slide while shooting them, and someone would have to babysit the machine and change the film every 36 exposures. All in all, I think we found the most cost effective solution, and the quality is first rate. ------ Bill K