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Response to Gabriel



I would like to give a quick response to one question that Gabriel asked:

>Question. Do you subscribe to the 3d magazines? Of course you do. 
>Now tell me, in general are the 3d pictures really that good? 

Yes, I do subscribe to most 3d magazines, but I do not subscribe to them
for the occasional 3d images but for the printed information.  The 3d
pictures are useful to demonstrate certain points.  Also, occasionally,
I get to see printed pictures of images that won awards in PSA salons.  
I view them out of curiosity and sometimes I agree that they are nice 
pictures, while other times I wonder what the judges had in mind.  The 
reason for this is that I am freeviewing a printed version of the picture 
while the judges saw the real image projected.  And I cannot imagine that
one day judges will be judging images from small printed reproductions
of them.  I know that they are such things as computer image contests
where people submit images via the computer, but this is exclusively
for computer-generated images.  All other photographic competitions
require that originals are sumbitted via regular mail.  There much be a
good reason for this.

> You said yourself you were not very effective in the back pages of 
>Stereo World. Let the world know your there. [more good stuff deleted...]

Again, most of what Gabriel is saying concerns the information and not
the stereo images in the computer.  In case I have not made my point clear
yet ;), I am commenting on the 3d imaging part exclusively, not the
information that is found in the computers.  I am saying that stereo
imaging in the computer is not as satisfying experience as it could be 
_today_ and that's why I am in no hurry to put my _3d_images_ in there
_today_!  I think that my active participation in photo-3d and use of 
email is an indication of the value that I put in computers and electronic 
communication.  Heck, I spent $2500 for a computer (for which Larry Berlin
said that it keeps me on the "low cost end of the computer revolution"!)
so that I can email and access the WEB!!!

George


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