Coolpix S1000PJ

In what situations will a tiny LED projector built into your Coolpix be useful? Here’s a few I can conjure:

1.) Massive In-Person Multi-User Chimping -two kinds
First: Set your D300s to shoot RAW to the CF slot and JPEG to the SDHC slot and shoot a while on your project, stop long enough to swap the SDHC card into the PJ and review your work with your assistants and models using the included remote control and plastic stand and durn near any available wall.

Second: Line up your folks, their folks, and all the running progeny long enough to get a group shot before they get food all over their nice, holiday clothes then keep taking pictures until everyone’s too loaded on tryptophan and football to complain when you shut off the lights and set up the PJ for everyone to enjoy.

2.) Presentations: Since various office softwares can save presentations as JPEG images and the S1000PJ can display any JPEG image on the SDHC card, create your slideshow and save it down as a numbered series of JPEGs, load them on the SDHC card and you’ve a presentation in your pocket.

A variation: Touring a production line take your reference shots, makes your notes, and you now you have an instant visual aid to your meeting or presentation.

3.) While waiting for the rescue helicopter turn on the projector and point it at the sky -all 10 lumens might be the difference between getting eaten by a python and getting spotted.

Scoot over to our page on youtube to check out our Raw Footage installment on the PJ.

We’re expecting soon to see a hands-on review of the S1000PJ from Carel Struycken. In the mean-time, I’d like your commentary on the uses of the PJ.