On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Joel Wilcox wrote:
I suspect Kodak loved the carrousel because it created the need for all
those consumables. For a number of years I would "organize" all my slides
in trays. I have a drawer full of boxes of full carrousel trays. When I
started shooting more seriously, I determined that it was an absurd waste
to store slides in this way.
I've often wondered what the point of either is, for domestic use at
least. I can understand the need for trays/carousels for a lecture or
AV presentation, where the presenter is going to be some distance from
the projector, operating it by remote control, but at home? Surely the
best way to do it is to sit just behind the projector and have an old
fashioned type of arrangement where you just put the slide into a
sliding carriage, er, slide it across to show it, put the next one in
the other side (which is now sticking out of the projector, slide the
carriage back to show the next slide, take the first slide out of the
carriage and put it back in the box... repeat until out of slides.
This has a few advantages:
You don't need to buy lots of trays/carousels.
You don't have to store your slides in them or load them up before a
show.
You can quickly correct mis-oriented slides.
Of course now I have little green boxes sitting around in piles all over
the house.
There is no known cure for that problem.
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