Re: 3D deja-Vu

[P3D Dr. George A. Themelis <fj834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Wageman writes:

>Did color slide film predate color print film?  If so, it may have
>been good color print film that killed stereophotography, just as it
>has all but killed non-stereo slides.  How many non-3D amateurs do you
>know who take slides on a regular basis?  How many as their ONLY
>medium?

I fully agree with Greg!  Take me as an example.  I only use print film for
my 2D pictures and slide film for my 3D pictures.  3D has a disadvantage
in depending on slide film.  3D in print format is not the answer IMO.  It
all comes back to the viewing question/problem:  What is the best way to
view the 3D image?  I will continue to use slide film as the medium of
choice in my stereo photography but I can see how newcomers hesitate to try
it.  Good color print film certainly did its part in killing stereo 
photography.

BTW, I have great B&W prints from when I was a kid, up to the 60s.  My
parents always hired a professional photographer not only in baptisms and
other formal events but also birthday parties!  Labor must have been cheap
in Greece back then.  The prints are all well composed and sharp.  Many
excellent enlargements.  Really very good work... until we hit the do-it-
yourself era with the low quality snapshots and the fading colors...

I love those excellent B&W portraits and family pictures.  Color offers
very little in pictures of people and I dare say that depth offers very
little too in a portrait (we all know that our heads are round, but do we 
really want to know how long our noses are?)

George Themelis


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