Diarama effect?

[P3D Peter Davis <pdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was looking at some Realist slides yesterday, and noticed that my
outdoor shots all appear to have a flat backdrop.  The effect is
somewhat like a diarama display ... the foreground objects are
dimensional and solid, but the distant background almost looks
painted.  I realize that apparent depth is going to diminish with
distance, but this seems more pronounced than I would expect.  Has
anyone else experienced this?  Is it a known phenomenon?

The slides were taken with a late model Realist 3.5, on Kodachrome 64,
and viewed with a Kodaslide II, in case any of that makes a
difference.

-pd

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