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Showing your work, slide projection and why you photograph in the first place

There are medium format projectors too. I have a few, and they are spectacular.

Large format slide lends itself to direct viewing. But projectors for that exist too.

Projection on scotchbrite/3M RR screens when you sit within a few degrees, the image is as bright as any screen (though also a tiny bit grainy, but not worse than pixels).
Slide can also be viewed in an enlarged view slide viewer (binocular style or enlarger) which can look fantastic too.
There the limit is your backlight and how much magnification you can get.

But if you are not too greedy with screen size regular projection is plenty bright.

I can do a “slide show” any day within a few minutes with my scanned photos. I really don’t see that as the same thing at all.

Slide viewed directly and not through a scanners interpretation is something very magical all its own.
 
Alan Edward Klein said:
Have you both done side by side comparisons on 75" 4K TV vs projection? Have you made digital slide shows with background music, titles, credits,?
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1) I don't have to, the real deal is available to me and is the way I shoot and enjoy film. If I must involve TV, I might as well do it digitally to begin with.
2) We spend so much time in front of digital displays, it can and does get tiresome. There are other technologies out there, offering their own quirks and qualities to enjoy.
3) What I'm doing gives credit to itself and doesn't require titles - I don't need to glaze my photography with additional layer of pomp, but hey - that's why we're here - to exchange our differing approaches, to give and receive insights, so no judgement given by me - to each his own, let's just enjoy photography and avoid making silly comparisons between apples, lemons and onions - makes really zero sense.
 

Agreeing to disagree is like kissing your sister. On paper the same thing but intuitively not satisfying.
These are not apples and oranges.
It’s Golden Delicious vs. Aomori.
Same overall idea but so qualitatively different that it’s flipping over into another thing.
 
I don't understand the desire to pan and scan film transparencies to fit a television screen.
 
faberryman said:
I don't understand the desire to pan and scan film transparencies to fit a television screen.
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You don't have to crop the original to 16:9.. If you shooting 35mm the format is 3:2. So when displayed on a TV screen which is 16:9 you get two black bars one on each side of the picture. However if you shoot digitally, you could shoot at 16:9 the same format as the TV screen. That would fill the whole screen. Video can be set to record already at 16:9 on your cell phone or camera.
 

I violently agree!
 
faberryman said:
I don't understand the desire to pan and scan film transparencies to fit a television screen.
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I do.
But I prefer projection when I can do so.
 
I'd feel taken hostage if i have to watch someone's slide show or home movies..... thankful that is a bygone era
 

When I needed quality slide projection, then I used superslide which is 4x4cm and Hasselblad had a special filmback for that the 16S.
Many good 35mm slide projectors could handle the superslide format.
 
GregY said:
I'll be steering very wide of Denmark then
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Are you saying that "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"?
 
FWIW, the slide shows I attend now are with people I also regularly share prints with. Their purpose is generally more to share and enjoy photography than it is to follow along with someone's recent trip.
Sometimes they include travel photography - a friend's recent trip to Africa comes to mind - but the slide show's purpose isn't documentation, it is photographic.
 

That's what I tell my guests. That the vacation slide show is fine art.

Slide shows are a great way to stop in-laws from visiting too often.
 
Philippe-Georges said:
When I needed quality slide projection, then I used superslide which is 4x4cm and Hasselblad had a special filmback for that the 16S.
Many good 35mm slide projectors could handle the superslide format.
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What is wrong with 6x6 slides? Bausch & Lomb had a great slide projector that my father had for decades. It disappeared after his death. Maybe he took it with him.
 
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Slide shows are a great way to show what was seen on a trip. Especially compared to having a 20 stone photo album places on ones lap.
 
Sirius Glass said:
What is wrong with 6x6 slides. Bausch & Lomb had a great slide projector that my father had for decades. It disappeared after his death. Maybe he took it with him.
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I shoot 6x7. What then?
 
Sirius Glass said:
Slide shows are a great way to show what was seen on a trip. Especially compared to having a 20 stone photo album places on ones lap.
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Unlike with a TV slide show, if your guest has a 20 stone album in his lap, he can't get up and leave.
 
faberryman said:
Unlike with a TV slide show, if your guest has a 20 stone album in his lap, he can't get up and leave.
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I posted about a real slide show, but otherwise you figured out my point.
 
GregY said:
I'd feel taken hostage if i have to watch someone's slide show or home movies..... thankful that is a bygone era
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There is many ways to get that feeling. Conversations about boring stuff, being left with people you don’t click with, being tired, getting served food you don’t like etc.
A good host will have a very fine sense of what people are in the mood for and when patience is about to be worn out.
Keep casual shows short and energetic, and make sure that there is really a genuine interest.
Same as with many other social situations.
 
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