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

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