[Leica] Slide shows

[drodgers at casefarms.com (David Rodgers)]

Larry,

Good question regarding slides. As a kid I remember my dad pulling out
the old Kodak projector during the holidays. We'd watch slides from
year's past. It was a family event. You can use a digital projector
today, but somehow it isn't quite the same. 

There are few things as impressive as viewing 2 1/4 slides. I still
remember the first time I saw medium format projected. It was during a
class in college in the 70's. A professor showed slides of a trip to
Europe he'd taken the previous summer using a Rollei TLR. I was hooked
on MF. 

FWIW, I think if people saw a 70mm Technicolor film in a theatre today
they'd be stunned. Projection quality isn't what it was.  
 
daveR

-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence Zeitlin [mailto:lrzeitlin@optonline.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 6:37 PM
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] Re: LUG Digest, Vol 32, Issue 115


On May 24, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Dick wrote:

> Leica lost a lot less money last year than the year before:

But they still lost quite a bit. I expect that they hope to make it up 
in volume.

Much of Leica's income improvement was in binocular sales and the sales 
of laser rangefinders. Camera sales improved less than the average of 
their other lines. Slide projectors dropped off from last year's dismal 
sales. Does anyone project slides anymore?

Larry Z