3-D lives!

[P3D Gerald Siegel <veritas@xxxxxxxxx>]

"3-d was a fad."   " 3-d died in the 60"s"  " 3-d is limited to a special
roadshow feature at a few tourist attractions."...  Nonsense. Repeat,
nonsense...I continue with stereoscopy, despite a manual, cock-the shutter,
set the aperture, forty year old camera.  Others repair and hoard ancient
bakelite viewers with chips, blemishes, and trade them to people around the
world, who sell fifty year old dog-eared xerox copies of instructions
manuals to other nuts like us. If stereo were a fad, who would even be
interested in that silly junky, Virtual Boy( which will soon turn up at swap
meets.)  Answer: The thrill of stereosscopy lives.  The bobcat lives. As
Themelis notes, mass acceptance is not the definition of value for a photo
process, a hobby, or an art form. I mean, some people still coat plates with
home-made emulsion and sepiatone the result.  And I respect them and their"
eccentricity "( which is almost a synonym for the stereo hobby.)  There- I
had to get that off my chest, folks. ... Gerry


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