Catherine
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Most projectors will display a roughly 13 foot wide image from that distance. If you have a nice smooth, white surface to project onto that is at least that wide, you should be OK with pretty much any projector that has around 2000 lumens as long as there is very little light on your screen surface. No projector will work well with direct sunlight on the screen.
The bottom line is any decent projector will work - the more important thing is making sure there is as little light on your screen surface as possible.
Most projectors will display a roughly 13 foot wide image from that distance. If you have a nice smooth, white surface to project onto that is at least that wide, you should be OK with pretty much any projector that has around 2000 lumens as long as there is very little light on your screen surface. No projector will work well with direct sunlight on the screen.
The bottom line is any decent projector will work - the more important thing is making sure there is as little light on your screen surface as possible.
Is there an all-in-one outdoor holiday projector?
snowflake
Looking for a projector that can do the pumpkins singing etc. and then used for Christmas for maybe the Santa video that you see in the windows, or snowflakes falling. Any information on how I can set this up/find the system would be greatly appreciated.
I can't keep up with the neighbors, but I still want to have fun LOL!
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Hi Melonie:
Most video projectors aren't suited for outdoors (and certainly not the cold climate of winter in Alaska!), so you might need to think about rear-screen projection techniques using the projector inside (and behind the window or screen to project onto).
As far as multi-purpose visual content, you could use a VCR, DVD, or computer to playback seasonal content (using video or PowerPoint slides) to feed such a projector.
If you needed to project on an outside wall or garage door, for example, then outdoor-rated theatrical (or nightclub style) lighting instruments could be used with projected patterns that are called "gobos". They are available with all sorts of season-themed patterns, and even come in full-color glass versions. The plain metal gobos can be made colorful using color filters on the lens of the light fixture. This method would be a lot cheaper than buying a video projector & replacing projector bulbs. See the Wikipedia "Gobo" article link in my Sources below.
There are even motorized gobo-holders to slowly spin the pattern around to give them some limited animation.
Do a Yahoo!Search or Google the keywords "American DJ" or "Chauvet" for inexpensive gobo-compatible light fixtures, and search for "Rosco" and "Apollo" for gobo manufacturers & online catalogs with patterns. "Norcostco" (http://www.norcostco.com ) and "Barbizon Lighting" (http://www.barbizon.com ) are two large suppliers of both lighting fixtures and gobos, since you may have to mail order from Alaska.
Just to give you some ballpark figures of gear that I use: a very good "ellipsoidal" light fixture with a quality lens (an "ETC Source4" or "Source4 Jr.") using a 575watt or 750watt halogen bulb runs between $200-$320 (outdoor rated), or an American DJ LED-powered gobo projector is around $150 (indoor rated). The gobo holder costs less than $10 from either Rosco or Apollo, and their stock metal gobos are between $10-$12 each. Glass gobos run $50 or more.
hope this helps,
--Dennis C.
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Hi Melonie:
Most video projectors aren't suited for outdoors (and certainly not the cold climate of winter in Alaska!), so you might need to think about rear-screen projection techniques using the projector inside (and behind the window or screen to project onto).
As far as multi-purpose visual content, you could use a VCR, DVD, or computer to playback seasonal content (using video or PowerPoint slides) to feed such a projector.
If you needed to project on an outside wall or garage door, for example, then outdoor-rated theatrical (or nightclub style) lighting instruments could be used with projected patterns that are called "gobos". They are available with all sorts of season-themed patterns, and even come in full-color glass versions. The plain metal gobos can be made colorful using color filters on the lens of the light fixture. This method would be a lot cheaper than buying a video projector & replacing projector bulbs. See the Wikipedia "Gobo" article link in my Sources below.
There are even motorized gobo-holders to slowly spin the pattern around to give them some limited animation.
Do a Yahoo!Search or Google the keywords "American DJ" or "Chauvet" for inexpensive gobo-compatible light fixtures, and search for "Rosco" and "Apollo" for gobo manufacturers & online catalogs with patterns. "Norcostco" (http://www.norcostco.com ) and "Barbizon Lighting" (http://www.barbizon.com ) are two large suppliers of both lighting fixtures and gobos, since you may have to mail order from Alaska.
Just to give you some ballpark figures of gear that I use: a very good "ellipsoidal" light fixture with a quality lens (an "ETC Source4" or "Source4 Jr.") using a 575watt or 750watt halogen bulb runs between $200-$320 (outdoor rated), or an American DJ LED-powered gobo projector is around $150 (indoor rated). The gobo holder costs less than $10 from either Rosco or Apollo, and their stock metal gobos are between $10-$12 each. Glass gobos run $50 or more.
hope this helps,
--Dennis C.
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