Re: Photo CD and Alternate Mediums

[3dstereo@xxxxxxxxxxx (Lincoln Kamm)]

        John D. Vala was interested in putting stereo slides into the
computer(via CDROM) and manipulating them.  Then putting them out to slides.

Well John, I do the part where I manipulate them, and it is a lot of fun as
well as challenging.  If you want to use the CD-ROM format, you should check
with whom ever is doing what the highest number of pixels(width and hight)
that they can scan at.  I don't have the figure handy, but it was something
over 2,000 pixels in each direction, that is needed for decent slide out
put.  I have not output to slide yet, because around here the best price is
$8 per slide.  $16 a pair is out of my fun budget range, if you consider you
could buy a nother stereo camera with the money spent on every 10 pictures.
If you mail out, you could get as cheap as $10 a pair.

Of course you must not forget that if you are working in a high enough
resolution to output properly for slide, you are working with files in exces
of 20 meg.  So, you are going to want to have at least 80 megs of ram.  And
you are going to want to store the files on your hard drive, you will run
out of space pretty quick.  And don't forget that you will need some sort of
Syquest or Burnooli removable storage device to transfer you humungous files.

I really enjoy doing the manipulation.  Over 5,000 people so far have seen
my images on the web.  But if I put it on slide I could show a few dozen
more.  I would say give it a shot, and keep it on the computer in lower res,
unless you have the hardware, and don't mind the price of digital to slide
conversion.

(one man's opinion)
               Lincoln Kamm
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