Presentation of the Microscopy Image

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Microscopists have special challenges when presenting image data to audiences, Issues such as image size, resolution, and labeling are related to the format of the presented image. Contact prints, transparencies, 35 mm film, and projected video of digital images are some of the output options possible for microscopy presentation. This brings us to a question which Jonathan Krupp of the University of California, Santa Cruz, recently posed to the Microscopy listserver;

“In this age of digital imaging, is a film recorder still useful? The last presentation I went to was all PowerPoint ‘slides’, but shown directly from a computer to a video projector, no film to be seen.”