Re: If only they were cameras....

[P3D <rdi@xxxxxxx>]

Stephen Warren wrote:

>Okay, that's out of my system. Moving from shameless plugs to the "personal
>observation" department, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Photo
>3D is exclusively a camera-oriented, shooters-&-viewers-only mailing list.
>Viewmaster is well represented, but not stereoview collectors. I've been

I think there are more of us view collectors than you think.  There
just isn't all that much to talk about, I suppose.  I have only a couple hundred
cards, and buy ones that strike me as being interesting pictures or good 3D effect.
I'm not really a rabid collector, but I do think of myself as collecting them.

The problem may be that there were so many different views made, collectors
probably don't have much in common to talk about; almost everybody in photo-3D either
has a stereo camera or knows what one is about, but almost nobody has
a stereoscope card of "Men in front of St. Mary's Church in Podunk, 1888".
I'm sure you all don't want to hear that at a mall antique show this week, I 
found a[nother] great Niagra Falls view for $3; I'm just not sure WHAT to say
on the stereocard subject.  I suppose it's just the nature of the collection.

I suppose I *could* try, though... here goes:
I recently picked up my first tissue views a few months ago.  Much to my surprise,
they (4 views) turned out to be pin pricked and wonderfully tinted.
I had never seen a tissue view before; I found it wonderous to look at them
and change from front-lit to back-lit; the color just magically appears.
Now if I could only find more like these that I could *afford*...  :-)

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Rick Inzero                                     
Northern Telecom, Inc.      			
Rochester, NY					rdi@xxxxxxx


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