Jo et al; Just my $.02 worth when it comes to projectors; Here at my office we bought a really nice projector from Inkley's that has 2000 lumens. It's fantastic. I've used it in a dark room and I've used it in a well lit auditorium without any problem. The machine we purchased is pretty much top of the line as we use it nearly every day. In addition to 2000 lumens, the resolution is 1024 x 768, so you can imagine how nice the image is. I wanted to go to the demo, but couldn't; I'm curious as to how the lumens vs resolution debate went. I can see both sides of the fence for a SLAS application; more lumens would be nice for large room presentations. However, higher resolution would be nice for the finer images we often look at as astronomers. Your thoughts? Joe Borgione Grahn Family <bsi@xmission.com> wrote:For anyone who is interested, At the last SLAS meeting, a question was raised regarding the data projector which we plan to buy, and its resolution. The trade off is lumens to resolution, between a projector having a 1024 X 768 pixel resolution with 1200 lumens, vs an 800 X 600 Pixel projector having 2000 lumens. Inkleys has kindly offered to demo the two projectors for us tomorrow (today?, Monday)at 12:00 noon at its store at 2150 South State. I've been told that the difference in lumens will be so big, that the choice will be obvious. However, if anyone else would like to see the demo, feel free to meet us there. I understand there was no acrimony in the question raised, but it was a good question, and one we thought we should look at. The technical guy at Inkleys said he could talk till he was blue in the face, but the best way to see the difference that the greater lumens would make, was to see it in person. By the way, many laptops cannot display at greater than 800 X 600 resolution, and any laptop will be able to back down to that resolution, so useability will not be an issue. Thanks, Josephine Grahn _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now