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Subject: [Leica] How many pictures for 1-hour presentation?
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:23:57 -0500

I have seen ten years worth of slide shows about 4 a year at the LHSA
meetings and plenty of guys and gals pulled out additional trays. But kept
it moving. I agree with the 30 second occasional explanation.
80 slides in an hour is not a lot of slides that's one every 45 seconds.
Way too long a time. Way too slow a pace.


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> From: Emanuel Lowi <manolito at videotron.ca>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:09:28 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] How many pictures for 1-hour presentation?
> 
> 
> I'm totally with Rabiner on this one.
> 
> People aren't interested in really looking at a picture more than 10-30
> seconds, but if there's a truly amazing story to be told related to the
> picture, that 30 second interval is do-able.
> 
> So it depends on how good  a talker you are. Ask someone who will tell you
> the truth. Don't judge that for yourself.
> 
> I am a bit of a raconteur so I sometimes stretch the per picture on-screen
> time a little. It's gotta be like jazz syncopation, though, some longer,
> some shorter, in an unpredictable pattern. And the pictures have to deserve
> that extra time.
> 
> But pictures moving on at a good clip and that speak for themselves (one
> being worth a thousand words) is a better idea.
> 
> In short, you can't easily have too many pictures, provided they are really
> good pictures. Be ruthless about picture selection.
> 
> You can easily have too few pictures and very easily end up talking too
> much.
> 
> My suggestion is that the old Kodak standard of an 80-slide Carrousel is a
> good starting point. Practice and see if it works.
> 
> Save the tech talk for the Q&A and maybe return to a very few selected 
> shots
> for that.
> 
> Emanuel
> 
> 
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