Historic Views/ Newviews Talk

[P3D Gerald Siegel <veritas@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am learning much from this dialogue and the bobcat postings.  Thanks to all
regular contributors....  When I get my copy of Stereo World, I eagerly look
for the contemporary photos. And next, the historical photos that have some
depth, or were preserved without smudges and blemishes. As a youth I enjoyed
the Keystone views that were teaching aids in grade school.  But the photos
were crisp;  The photographers knew the principles of stereoscopy too.  It
was  indeed possible to get good images from orthochromatic film on plate
cameras with magnesium flash (look at Lewis Hines's work on child labor).
Most of the images I see are - excuse me- drecky images. Although I had lots
of,( currently desirable,) old views  that I bought for a song they were all
lost in my parent's last move, along with some aluminum hood viewers.  Ah
well, I didn't buy Microsost either.   On cleaning shutters, please be
careful with benzene and trichlo- stuff, or maybe leave to a specialist.
Those chemicals are murder. That's why we did our chem labs under exhaust
hoods.!              Aloha Gerry      


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