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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Looking for slide projector
Message-ID: <953@hound.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 12:17:57 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 25 12:17:57 1985
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I suggest you do what I did when I was going thru the same agonizing.
Everyone knows how well the carousels work as everyone must have used
one someplace, sometime. So, don't listen to advice. Don't stop to
ask yourself why carousels dominate the market without an antitrust
proceedings. Just go out and borrow or rent a Bell and Howell. Take it
home and try to use it even one evening. While you're at it, be sure
to leave at least one cube partially filled. You won't believe the fun
things you will witness with your own eyes. Crank the lens elevation
up and down (yeah,why move the whole machine?) A really neat idea! Except
for one small detail which only seeing will reveal.
I think you, like me, will be unable to get rid of the B&H fast enough.
BTW. Carousel trays are way too low density and way too expensive for
permanent storage.  I should know, having at least umpteen cubic feet
of them.  However, there is a stack loader for the carousel that works
on "cube-sized" bundles of slides. It doesn't flip the slides around joyously
the way the B&H does, but it does share the limitation that you can't
back up. Anyhow, storage trays are available for bunches of slides that
are at least as dense as B&H cubes. You can show the slides directly on the 
stack loader or drop them into carousel trays - not such an onerous task
as you might imagine, given that you might want a peek at them before you
show them.

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