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From: tmurphy@wpi.wpi.edu (Tom [Chris] Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: photographing screens
Message-ID: <5908@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 89 02:02:47 GMT
References: <24526@cup.portal.com> <3777@hydra.gatech.EDU> <2172@bacchus.dec.com> <140@suntc.UUCP>
Reply-To: tmurphy@wpi.UUCP (Tom [Chris] Murphy)
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In article <140@suntc.UUCP> jh34607@suntc.UUCP (john howell) writes:
>In article <2172@bacchus.dec.com>, klee@chico.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee) writes:
>> While we're on the subject, I've had excelent results with Polaroid
>> slide film.
>
>Not me ... when the polaroid 35mm slide film first came out around 1983
>I tried using it for just this purpose, but could never get very good
>color saturation or contrast.  True, it was good in a pinch, but I could
>never mix 'real' slides in the presentation since that showed how bad
>the polaroid ones were.
>
>Of course ... there probably is a better film stock available today, but

Well, sorry to say it seems no better.  We do a lot of slides here from a 
Presentation Technologies Imagemaker (a neat box that eats HPGL) and have
occasionally used Polaroid slide film.  Our graphics art person often
complains about contrast and color problems with the film.

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