Church Projectors: Brightness
As a rule of thumb, we recommend a minimum of 2500 lumens of brightness when using a church projector, but more is always better. Most churches have a very long throw distance (the distance form the multimedia projector to the screen). Couple that with a sizable congregation and a large projection screen, and you’ll need a bright projector even if your church is dimly lit. If your church has numerous windows, even stained glass windows, you’ll probably need a multimedia projector with more than 2500 lumens of brightness.

With that said, we have spoken with several church officials (pastors) that have used multimedia projectors that are less than 1000 lumens and yet had an adequate image from the projector. That is the exception and not the rule. Those churches are usually very small and quite dim.

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