Re: Talkin' Stereoviews

[P3D Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>rather advanced age and does not use a computer... (note: this is
>statistics... please do not write to me to tell me that you are a young
>collector with a computer... ;))
>
>George Themelis

How about an old collector with a computer :-)

Actually this is an interesting problem. I got into view collection not
as an end in itself but as a) I am investigating (or was) using computer
technology to preserve/restore historic images - and views were the
easiest to obtain "real photos" when I started, and b) one of the
things I do otherwise is study Victorian house architecture (which 
is best done via photos). 

There *are* counter arguments, though. I have almost completely given
up taking pictures (especially mono) on my travels in the West, since
I decided I did not want to view the world in general from behind a 
viewfinder. I probably have a couple of thousand mono prints that
I will never look at (the fall color season in the mountains is
particularly hard to pass up because it's so fleeting - but after
you have a few hundred prints of the same yellow trees in various
years, there doesn't seem to be much point). 

My folks did that a lot - I'm still sorting thru 35mm mono
slides 10 years after they passed away, and I'm canning 95% of them since
they are of people/places that don't mean anything to me and are likely
not to be of historic value. AND they never really had the time and /or
inclination to go back and look at them in their later years. About the
only things we looked at consistenly were Kodachrome (I) 8 mm movies
from the late 40's/early 50's when us kids were small - that was
perhaps once a year.

That's one reason I always tell people (when they will listen, which
is infrequently) that it's a big mistake to exclusively videotape
family type "movies". Unless transferred to the current technology
(DVD is coming on strong) they will be lost in a relatively short
period (say, 20 - 25 years) (sigh). 

THANKS

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