Re: a horror story

[Tom Deering <tmd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/4/99, Greg Erker wrote:
>>So, after yawning at twelve pair of crisp, deeply saturated Velvia
>>medium format slides, Jane shows me 144 grainy drugstore prints.
>>Almost as if to show me how its done!  AAaaaaaaaaaahh!
>
>  Whew!  It was a horror story but after some of your other
>stories I was sure she was going to drop your slides in the fire
>or something. Glad they survived.

No such luck.  That would have given me an excuse to kill her.  :^D

>  I think it's the emotional attachment thing that is sometimes
>discussed on P3D. (Blurry baby photo is wonderful because it's
>my granddaughter...)

That definitely played a part here.  I didn't mention that every 
photo was the same subject, either rocks, trees, or sky.  She never 
got tired of showing them.

It also made me realize that I use the "WOW" reaction to gauge 
whether they are seeing in stereo, and in focus.  Most of the time, 
the people that don't say "WOW" are having trouble focusing or 
fusing.  I use that as my cue to show them how to adjust the viewer. 
When I hear the "WOW", I know they got it.

I've had people put the viewer up to their face, try for a second, 
and then say something polite, like "That's nice."  If I adjust the 
focus, and their reaction changes to "WOW", I assume they were unable 
to fuse the image in the first place.

Tom Deering