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Subject: [Leica] How many pictures for 1-hour presentation?
From: spencer at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:02:24 -0500
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Peter,

My rule of thumb is no more than 150 images, 100-120 is preferred for 
travelogues. It all depends on how much story there is behind each picture. 
For Powerpoint presentation, when I use to give them, 3 minutes per slide is 
the average.

Regards,
Spencer

On Feb 22, 2011, at 13:53, Peter Klein wrote:

> I've been asked to give a presentation at work on my trip to Israel.  Many
> of you have seen the photos I have to choose from. Does anyone have a rule
> of thumb about how many photos can be reasonably shown in a 50-minute
> presentation?  I'll be narrating, and obviously some pictures will have a
> very quick narration, some more.  Q&A at the end will be additional time
> beyond the 50 minutes.
> 
> I'll be using the web-sized images I've posted on the LUG, with a 1024x768
> projector. I did a test run last week, and found that Irfanview in
> full-screen mode works nicely without the ghastly resizing that PowerPoint
> does. I can interpolate a few maps and titles by file-naming them so they
> display in the right order.
> 



Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] How many pictures for 1-hour presentation?)
In reply to: Message from pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein) ([Leica] How many pictures for 1-hour presentation?)