Re: Freeviewing vs Lorgnettes

[P3D Marvin Jones <72657.3276@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Fine... those three dollar viewers might be around, but most people don't 
> know they even exist let alone where to get them...
> I'm talking about 3D 'virgins' here.

Well, everybody's got to lose their cherry sometime!

> it seemed that you favoured these viewers also for sliding photos into them,
> but what if the image is on screen or a sirds image in a book?

I think we're talking on different wavelengths here. I'm not talking about
something you "slide photos into."  A lorgnette viewer is a little plastic
gadget similar to the old lorgnette glasses (which were held in front of the
eyes on a handle). They refract light in such a way that they can be used to
view a printed stereo pair (or a computer screen image) and easily get the 3D
effect. They are often distributed with books such as the Harold Lloyd volume. I
suppose they might also work with SIRDS, but in these the image pairs are not
spread nearly so wide apart as in a pair of discrete images, and people who
can't freeview stereo pairs usually CAN view them (myself included).


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