[applekeynote] Re: Coping with badly maintained projectors

Even when I was using white boards and flip charts I faced a similar problem with the
sound system. Promoters would say they have an excellent sound system and I would be
confronted with a wired, hand-held microphone leading to a distorting sound system.
Once, the "speaker cabinet" was a speaker mounted to a cardboard box.

Unless I am absolutely positive that a venue will have the proper electronics, I always carry
my own computer to run KN. I have my own wireless lapel microphone. And i bring my
own projector. If it's local, I bring my own sound system and if it's distant I check to see if
a sound system is rentable.

My projector is a Sharp Notevision SR-1X. It's about 4.5" deep by 9.5" wide by 2.5" tall. I'm
not trying to promote this unit, but I am pointing out that there are good quality
projectors that are relatively small. This unit is far from perfect. For example, it doesn't
have a zoom lens. The solution: I carry a 25' cable to attach it to my Mac.

I follow the motto of the Boy Scouts: Be Prepared!

--- In applekeynote@yahoogroups.com, Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@...> wrote:
>
> Presentations away from home (as they usually are) face you with the
> same problem professional pianists have, that you have no control
> over the quality of the projector that you have to use. (On one
> occasion I brought my own projector to a meeting because the
> organizer told me with one day's warning that only PowerPoint on a PC
> could be used, but that's a lot of trouble.)
>
> I've at least twice been faced with projectors that had no red
> (projecting red as yellow), and yellow text against a yellow
> background isn't too legible. (Why would I want yellow text against a
> red background? not too ofte...

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