How to Buy a Slide Projector for Home Use
What's the surest way to get guests to leave from your home? Show 1,000 slides of your vacation. Most pictures today are shown via a PowerPoint presentation through an LCD projector. It is becoming increasingly hard to find a slide projector and a camera store that will process slides.
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Scour Internet sites that sell used camera equipment. The most popular slide projector was made by Kodak. Kodak discontinued production of the Kodak Slide Carousel in 2004. European-made slide projectors house the slides in trays instead of carousels.
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Make note of the wide variation in prices with slide projectors. An average price for used slide projectors is approximately $250.00. Prices for some slide projectors range as high as thousands of dollars.
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Purchase extra accessories with a used slide projector. Stock up on bulbs and lenses to keep the equipment running.
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Buy extra carousels or trays to store all of the slides. Storing the slides in carousels or trays requires less handling of the slides.
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Locate a camera shop that processes slides to convert pictures to slides. These shops are increasingly harder to find.
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Show slide shows projected on to a screen. A screen makes for easier viewing than projecting on to a wall.
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Tips & Warnings
Consider converting old slides to digital formats and display them using an LCD projector instead.
Slides from an American-made slide projector must be manually removed to install in an European-made slide projector.
