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Written by Administrator
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The first thing you'll appreciate about connecting a Lightsmith platform to a display device wirelessly is the convenience. When used with an A/V transmitter, the Lightsmith presentation sytem can be operated from anywhere in the room rather than just where the cords will reach. And if you use a laptop that has a video port (yellow RCA jack), you can alternately use the transmitter to connect the laptop to your projector. Best of all, a wireless transmitter will often save you time and money over the cost of installing hard wiring—there is no need to use an electrician!
To install the wireless system, you simply connect the transmitter to the Lightsmith camera, attach the receiver to the ceiling (all hardware included), plug it into the outlet near the projector, and turn it on. It’s really that simple!
Our wireless LS-WL is on sale for $309.99 It features an attached 2.4 GHz transmitter with a transmission range of 300 feet, and is compatible with all camcorder brands and models. Note: if you use 2.4 GHz cordless phones or wireless internet in your building, we recommend our 5.8 GHzLS-WL2($359.99) Featuring a RF-Link 5.8GHz wireless transmitter, it operates in exactly the same way as the LS-WL except that it avoids the sometimes crowded 2.4 GHz bandwidth.
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Written by Administrator
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Your first logical question is an important one: "How good is the image quality?" The pictures below are still images grabbed from DV video footage shot with a Canon ZR100. It has a 20X optical zoom and a 400X digital zoom, standard to many recent camcorder models and brands.
Since most teachers look at text with a Lightsmith, our first examples are of handwriting in a notebook. A Lightsmith camera arm provides the ideal focal length to view an entire sheet of paper.
 We have found that the writing area on a sheet of notebook paper (5 1/4 inches, between red margin lines) is a teacher's most commonly used view. As can be seen, a camcorder’s 20X magnification capability is ideal for this purpose. 
A page can be further magnified. While interesting, close-up views of text are not as often used by teachers...
…unless they happen to be discussing last night’s episode of CSI.
If so, they simply bend the camera arm a bit closer.
Or, if they’re wondering why several students have their lunch money out during a United States Geography test…
…they might want to look a bit closer.
Of course, a visual presenter is no substitute for a microscope. If you need to look at very small objects, we recommend that you look into our microscope adapter. The following pictures were taken with a Panasonic PV-DV52D with 10X optical zoom and a Wards classroom microscope. Our microscope adapter can also be used to attach a camcorder to a telescope or field binoculars.
  Ant mandible Pea pollen
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Written by Chris La Cava
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New technology tools often sit unused because teachers are not exactly sure how to use them and they are much too busy to experiment at the end of the day. The Lightsmith system, by contrast, has the advantage of being extremely user-friendly, because many teachers already know how to operate a camcorder. To brush up on their skills, teachers can bring the camcorder home to experiment with it at leisure. Filming pets, sports events, or family celebrations is a fun way to build skills that directly transfer to the classroom. Not only is camcorder technology much less expensive than that of other presentation systems, but it is also designed to be portable. This allows technology to be used wherever learning is happening rather than having to bring the learning to the technology. And at the end of the day, the camera can easily be removed from the Lightsmith and stored securely, making resource security easier than with other presentation systems. |
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