Jamie & Red Button & Kodak Cover

[P3D Brad Richmond <bradr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Emerging from the The Lurk to proclaim "Hello Again",

I finally caught up with the past unread lists and wanted to add my own post:

1. Jamie, I thought your VM Story was very interesting. It also serves as an
excellent reminder of how much work can go into commercial production of
photographic endeavors, especially 3-D efforts. I am very interested in
purchasing a copy of your VM project, as I suspect many others are. Please
let me know how to do so.

2. After reading the posts regarding the little cap that goes over the flash
connector for the Kodak, I tore my house up looking for mine. I bought the
camera six years ago, and once I figured out what the little thingy was, I
immediately removed it. Today, after a mere 15 minutes of frantic searching,
it was found! I figure this may the the rarest 3-D artifact in existence,
but am willing to trade mine, even-up, for a mint Realist Macro  #8-)  I'll
even toss in a "limited-edition" (normally priced at $400) pair of Left Eyed
Designer Pulfrich glasses (with a spare lens for the right eye) and my now
famous book "3-D vs The English Language: A Never Ending Conflict of
Unspeakable Dimensions."      #8-) & <g> & <G>

3. Regarding George Themelis' poll on Realist Red Button Viewers...I have a
comment or two. 

   - The only criticism I have of this fine viewer is that it needs to focus
out a little bit more. As I age, I am becomming more and more farsighted. I
can only rack the lenses out an additional millimeter more before the Red
Button will be out of range of my eye-focusing capability. This concerns me
because I hate to use glasses with the viewer, as it makes it harder to view
the entire image. If I could change anything about the viewer it would be
the focusing range. If George can figure out a modification, he will assure
himself more business than he wants as more 3-D'ers move into middle age.

   For those of you with a similar problem I find that the "Kodaslide I &
II" and the "TDC Stereo Vivid" viewers have plenty of extra focusing play to
accomodate my eyes for a few more years. Great lenses on the Kodaslide II
and very good lenses on the TDC enhance their value to me. My "Life Like"
viewer has such a short focusing track that I couldn't use it without
glasses a year after I bought it. With the cheap (but very useful as gifts)
$3 plastic viewers, I only see blurs unless I use reading glasses.

   I still highly recommend the Red Button, though. Please consider that I
need a +2 correction in reading glasses, so it will be a great viewer for
almost everyone. I'm just dreading the day when I place this viewer to my
eyes and can no longer get focus without those #$%*ed glasses  #8-(

   BTW - I actually shot some 3-D photos today. It's even more fun than
reading or writing about it. Pictures of the last day at the pool...I'll
really enjoy them in February!

Regards,

Formerly dogphotog@xxxxxxx but now just plain old Brad

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	Brad D. Richmond - bradr@xxxxxxxxxx     	  
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