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Rear projection viewing screens

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Paul Jackman - 05 Nov 2004 20:21 GMT
I make custom front and rear projection screens for the video display
industry and it occurred to me that there may be applications for these
screens in viewing slide projections, or any other projected images. Is
there any value in rear projection when displaying slides, like being able
to stand in front of the image without casting a shadow on the screen? Or
any need for custom aspect ratios?
Paul
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zeitgeist - 06 Nov 2004 09:37 GMT
> I make custom front and rear projection screens for the video display
> industry and it occurred to me that there may be applications for these
> screens in viewing slide projections, or any other projected images. Is
> there any value in rear projection when displaying slides, like being able
> to stand in front of the image without casting a shadow on the screen? Or
> any need for custom aspect ratios?

Most photogs work in smaller rooms, unlike the convention industry or other
shows where there is a back stage area.   Hopefully we have their rapt
attention so they are not walking out or even walking about.
Paul Jackman - 06 Nov 2004 13:06 GMT
Yes, for the smaller rooms a projector with a short throw lens at 3 feet
would only give you a 27 inch (diagonal) image. Nice image though!

Paul
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> > I make custom front and rear projection screens for the video display
> > industry and it occurred to me that there may be applications for these
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> shows where there is a back stage area.   Hopefully we have their rapt
> attention so they are not walking out or even walking about.
zeitgeist - 10 Nov 2004 06:56 GMT
> > > I make custom front and rear projection screens for the video display
> > > industry and it occurred to me that there may be applications for these
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> > shows where there is a back stage area.   Hopefully we have their rapt
> > attention so they are not walking out or even walking about.

One possible market would be the few store front studios that are left, put
a screen in their front window and set up pair of projectors to run slides
all evening.  (or even a digital projector)

trouble is, few portrait wedding photogs have slides anymore.  I used to
have stacks of transproofs but that disappeared.
Paul Jackman - 12 Nov 2004 01:25 GMT
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> > > > I make custom front and rear projection screens for the video display
> > > > industry and it occurred to me that there may be applications for
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> trouble is, few portrait wedding photogs have slides anymore.  I used to
> have stacks of transproofs but that disappeared.

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Digital is main stream for our screens. Images scanned to digital as JPEG
or TIFF files have quite an impact when projected on 40"W X 72"H screens.
especially when they are rear projection and can be viewed from both
sides (reversed image considered). Screens that size weigh less than
3 pounds each and can be hung directly from a T-grid Ceiling.

I was thinking more of a themed photo show where six screens where
ceiling hung in a walk through gallery along with the photo originals on
display.

I can project three vertical screens from one projector, or two horizontal
144"W X 40"H Panoramic shots, or even combinations of both.  Two good
projectors can make a very impressive display. . . .

Jackman Media(tm)   http://www.jacktech.net
zeitgeist - 12 Nov 2004 03:36 GMT
> > > > > I make custom front and rear projection screens for the video
> display
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>
> Jackman Media(tm)   http://www.jacktech.net

Even though I sport a goatee and dress in black from hat down to my shoes, I
don't hang out nor think like an artist in black...so all this way beyond
me.

though at the rate shopping malls are being abandoned there should be enough
space for such a project.

IIRC the premise of the post was, any market for the product of rear
projection.  The kind of people who install such exhibits in galleries and
warehouses I would guess tend to be the DIY'rs.   Artists in black tend to
not have a large budget, at least AFAIK, perhaps I don't get invited to
those cool parties anymore.   So at worst you will spend time giving a cool
idea to some other guy to impress the other artists in black, at best you
might sell a package to one with a trust fund.

One cool effect I saw as portrait images projected onto a screen in a frame,
there were 4 projectors, 2 dissolving the portrait images, and two with
frame images, that really held your attention, which I suppose its supposed
to do.
It does seem that every town has a couple photographers with street facing
store fronts with picture windows.   At night they don't do much, cars
driving by don't see individual prints even if they make something larger
than a 16x20, and any marketing class will let you know that if the print
isn't changed almost daily people will stop seeing it, change it daily, at
least a dozen in rotation, people will notice it.   So having a projection,
and rear screen would actually be much better in this case as you can put
the screen IN the window and project to large wall size.   That, IMHO, is a
potential market.

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