[MF3D.FORUM:1662] RE: List intros request

["Richard Rylander" <rlrylander@xxxxxxx>]

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Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 1:04 PM
To: Medium Format 3D Photography
Subject: [MF3D.FORUM:1644] List intros request

BTW, this brings up something I was thinking about after our
latest round of introductions.  Many of the recent subscribers
don't have any idea who is already here on the list.  It would
be great if all the old hands would also post a few words about
themselves. I could accumulate those, along with the past two
years (?) of new subscriber intros, and put them on a web page
for recent and future new subscribers to review.

Paul Talbot


Hello all, my name is Richard Rylander.  I've been involved in photography
for about 35 yrs thanks to a trusting aunt who let me borrow her Argus and
Rolleicord cameras as a kid.  My interest is still primarily in black&white
prints, but I started doing stereo slide photography about 5 yrs ago with a
shifted Hasselblad.  I've since used Kodak stereo, Realist, Nimslo, fused
two Lomo 35's together and ended up with a Sputnik as my main stereo camera.

I got a great deal on a Heidoscop in excellent condition a couple of years
ago, but with just the plate holder - I've been tinkering off-and-on with
kludging together a rollfilm back but the project never seems to make it to
the top of my to-do list.  There's a never ending stream of distractions
coming from my job (research specialist in the Digital Imaging Systems Lab
at 3M) that meshes perfectly with my true interests, luring me away from
REAL photography with the siren call of pixels.  The future may be digital,
but it can't yet match the viewing experience of medium format stereo
slides.