Kids and 3-D (was TV has no ....)

[P3D Robert Stern <rstern@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I found what I think is a great way to get your kids interested (or
moderately so) in stereography.  The last time my youngest daughter (13 yrs)
asked me to load her camera, I instead loaded my yard-sale Nishika with
Velvia ASA 200.  I gave no instructions (it doesn't need any) and let her go
to her school outing with it.  I sent her roll to K-Mart, with the usual
threatening do-not-cut notes, they sent it to Kodalux, and I got charged
five and a half bucks.  I mounted her slides for stereo, and put an inner
chip in a Robot slip-in mount, to be sent out, if necessary to be printed -
$0.45 at K-Mart.  She was absolutely amazed when she used a stereo viewer to
see her results (may I live for her to be thus impressed with Dad's slides).
I realized, that when the kid does his own work, they'll view with an
interest that they've never had for Dad's work, or the work of View Master
for that matter.  Those crummy flatties they've always taken (lots of
classroom ceiling or much schoolyard fence) are very cool pictures to the
kids merely because they're shots of their friends.  Good photography and
sense of composition, light etc. will come to them in years yet to come. 
I now give the Nishika to both daughters to use and my wife took it to her
office picnic last spring, and used it at the Rochester con.  I got my
Nishika, as I said, at a yard sale.  Brand new with flash, case and Vincent
Price video tape for $35.  You can find them without the junk for 10 bucks
and under at sales, or check the Salvation Army.  I bought it because it was
cheap, never used it, and now its become a very valuable thing to me.  Give
the kids Nishikas!!

Best,
Bob   
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Bob Stern
rstern@xxxxxxxxxxxx


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