RE: a horror story

["Menzel, Greg" <Greg.Menzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It continually surprises me how satisfied people are taking prints such as
those you described below. I think today's fully automatic cameras and
convenient and cheap processing are partly to blame. With stereo, there is a
large investment (both time and money) when taking an exposure. Thus we're
more likely to think about subject matter, composition, lighting conditions,
and so on. The old quantity vs. quality thing.

For me, there is no better way to revisit a scene or an event than taking
some time to brew some coffee, sit down on the couch, and go through a set
of well thought out stereo slides. I find myself looking at each exposure
for a long time, moving my eyes throughout the scene. Nothing else comes
close!

It's funny you should mention going through pile after pile of mediocre
prints - that sometimes happens here at work when someone gets back from a
vacation. All I can think of is "hmmm..that would have been a good stereo
picture", or "why do they keep taking pictures into the sun?"

Last week I brought in some early results from my Sputnik with the Saturn
viewer. I had a lot of positive feedback, although no one went that extra
step to inquire about getting into the hobby themselves.

Fortunately we have the Internet and NSA to concentrate our enthusiasm and
experiences with 3D.  I am going on a four day trip to Las Vegas next week,
and plan to shoot quite a bit with the Spud. Hopefully my results will be
better than my Mesa experience. (For those that do not know, National Camera
processed them as prints, not E-6!  Ughhh!!)

Regards...
Greg M.




> But here's the kicker.  Later, Jane pulled out a bag of HER photos! 
> Six envelopes of washed-out prints, all camping photos.  She honestly 
> showed me every single picture!  With a comment for *each one* like 
> "This is that same spot.  Isn't that pretty?" After a while I took my 
> mind off the pictures by counting them, "sixty-three... sixty-four..."
> 
> 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!
> 
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