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To: Bernie Goldberg who wrote (10558)	3/23/2000 3:08:00 PM
From: OldAIMGuy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18928

Hi Bernie, Yes, I've done the exact same thing with my computer, my old Minolta SLR, some close-up lenses and some patience. The way I used to do it was to bring up a blank Lotus 123 screen and use that as my "gray card" for metering. I'd usually stop down one f-stop from whatever I metered on the screen. Then when I created color graphs it gave me good color saturation. I'd do this work at night in my office after dark. I'd set everything up, turn out the lights and shoot the screens as I brought them up. The only thing that wasn't perfect was a bit of parallax with the edges of the image. This occurred because of the screen not being flat. I could do better today shooting off the flat screen of my laptop! Those first slide shows date back to 1988 when I first started talking about AIM in public. I gave a talk at the local Rotary Club and then used the slides again at an investment club meeting. Back then those images really WOW'd the audiences! Since the advent of PowerPoint people have come to expect excellent graphics and fancy dissolve special effects! For those who are Photographically Challenged, I hope this hasn't bored you! As an alternative to making images on film yourselves, you can take the images you create in PowerPoint or any other program and copy them to a 3-1/2" disk. Kinko's offers data to slide service. I don't know what it might cost, however. They'll also transfer the data to transparencies. So, we have a choice of using a slide projector or transparencies if we can't come up with a computer projector. I was thinking that transparencies might be good in that we could then photocopy them as part of a summary hand-out for those in attendance and as a "mailer" to those who want to attend by proxy. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Thanks for reminding me of the fun I used to have in the days before photos were a series of digits!! Thinking even further back, in my pre-computer days I used to make up the art work by hand for graphs and charts and then photo them in a similar fashion to make slides. What a pain!!! It's easier to do the stuff on the computer!!! Best regards, Tom