Trading tips for dark displays and prop production.
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By CorpseBride
#36517
I just picked up an awesome image projector with sound. The unit comes with 6 slides (I plan on making some more on my own!) and the images have a eerie rippling effect complete with glowing eyes. The sound is pretty cool too, it is a short loop but it is very Halloween. You can control whether there is sound or not, as well as the volume.

At first I was unsure of how well it would actually work, because more often than not when I purchase items like these I am usually disappointed with the quality. Not this time though! It was well worth the money!!

I purchased it today at wal-mart for the 39.97 it says on the package.

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My apologies for the low quality images, I have a lot to do today so I had to do some very quick scans :D

If you guys are interested in the product and want to see it in action I would be more than happy to take a short video to show you.
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By monstermash
#36523
Looks good. Making your own slides should be good too.
I fancied getting a projector to screen maybe Frankenstein or Nosferatu or Vampyr on a large part of my house wall. I wouldn't have any sound, just the film playing, sort of as a decoration rather than something party guests would sit and watch.
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By Pumpkin Head
#36539
Sweet pick up, Corpse Bride! I'm gonna have to take a trip to the local Wallmart. :D
By GUS
#36648
I'd love to see it in action, always nice to play with toys, ..upload her to the toob!!!
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By CombichristGirl
#36654
sweet! how come i didnt notice this thread before? lol anyways how would you go about making a slide im very interested :wink: :)
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By CorpseBride
#36713
GUS wrote:I'd love to see it in action, always nice to play with toys, ..upload her to the toob!!!
Okie dokie!! Will do some time this week :D

In the mean time here is a so-so vid that shows one of the slides:



CCG:

You need to find a 'photography processing' store ... they usually also sell cameras, but if they don't they will have a processing store they work with and can give you a reference. I find it is best to find those small camera shops where all the die hard 35mm-ers hangout :wink:

Unfortunately, you may have to send your 'photos' to a different city for processing now, so it may take awhile.
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By CombichristGirl
#36764
ohhhh i see i get it now lol. i do have a photo place near here i think hmm may have to have a look. do they need to be a certain size/shape or can they be close? id imagine you could just trim? im very interested in this because i do pretty much nothing with the front of my house
By GUS
#36774
if you take an interesting spooky picture , get it made into a slide, then you can use your MATHMOS space projector & oil wheel with it, as it's made with a regular slide carrier.
eg, take a pic of the frankenstien silhouette invert it, then the moving oil is within the clear frankensteins monster with a black outer..

(for instance) ..go on nos, show em what I mean.
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By CorpseBride
#36939
CombichristGirl wrote:ohhhh i see i get it now lol. i do have a photo place near here i think hmm may have to have a look. do they need to be a certain size/shape or can they be close? id imagine you could just trim? im very interested in this because i do pretty much nothing with the front of my house
Well the way this machine takes the slides is portrait...so i would make sure they are in that format...unless while you had it on you just turned the machine on it's side or something if you really want landscape. Am I even making any sense? lol....very tired here.

Say what Gus? What is this contraption you speak of?
By GUS
#36970
CB, google it
Mathmos (as in Barbarella) ..the originators of the lava lamp, it's an oil wheel projector

Linky linky...

http://www.mathmos.com/usa/erol.html#1X0

I have around 50 lava lamps by these folk, & a couple of space projectors, tey are superb in a kids room at night time & somewhat soothing / mesmerizing, low power too.

just put em somewhere safe where little hands cannot grab / touch.

then if they ever grow out of it, you get it back for yourself!