Charlie Pridham writes
I am hoping to avoid the lap top options (partly because I have not got
one and partly because I have seen people struggle to get the thing up
and running) I am intrigued by the idea of a slide copier attached to
the front of ones camera but I suspect my Fuji finepix S5700 may not be
up to the job, son has a slide copier built into his scanner, but
trying to do anything in his room is all but impossible, it sounds as
if I may be able to get a whole talk copied as a batch so I will look
into that. I think someone has mentioned a back up disk as well!

Whatever set up you end with, I think you would want to be able to
create power point presentations and load them on to your projector. You
may be able to create them at home on your PC then transfer them across,
so may not need the lap top + projector combination.

Powerpoint is an easy way to string a set of slide together for
presentation. You'll soon want to add to that by producing text slides,
eg the title of the talk, or throwing up the name of the garden you're
about to talk about, or whatever, or an 'end' slide that makes it doubly
cler that you have finished talking. All these things are really useful
without entering into the fancy stuff.
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Kay