re: Cameras, viewers and more!

[P3D Gabriel Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The honorable Dr. George A. Themelis writes

>Gabriel's joke has people asking seriously if they can convert 3Discover
>for Realist format slides.  The advantage of this particular viewer is 
>that it will view a filmstrip like the good old Tru-Vue.  If you want
>a viewer with decent lenses that works for Realist slides fed one at a
>time, then take the $3 viewer, pull out the lenses and install a pair
>of my Wollensak lenses.  Then you will have a $3 viewer with $30 lenses!  
>Sounds like something that an ignorant communist economy would have 
>invented, the perfect match for your Belplasca!!!! ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

Dr.T you once mentioned that the 3Discover optics were good. What is your
opinion on how it stacks up to the Red Button or the Wollensak lenses?
Secondly can the Wollensak lenses accomodate a 7 or 8p slides? If yes
can this be used for improving the 3Discover. I imagine the Wollensak lenses
are larger diameter but that shouldn't be a problem to put in a 3Discover.
I think I might be interested in those lenses for my offshore imitation
VM viewer! Then it would go well with my Belplasca camera. FYI I have the
lowest serial number of all of you. Mine is 000000.;-) 

>PS to Gabriel:  I am glad to hear that it your posting was a joke 
>Gabriel.  Because I did not see any smilies after _my_ name!!!

I didn't think any smilies were needed. If anybody seriously believed it
then you haven't been doing a good job bringing your point across regarding
viewers. ;-) That's a joke. You have made perfectly clear your position on
viewers. Then again I did not perpetrate this hoax. It must have been my
other half, all this talk about 3D moons made me a bit looney.

Sincerely
Gabriel going out to howl at the 3D moon.

Looney-short for lunatic
Lunatic-affected with lunacy
(the belief that lunacy fluctuated with the phases of the moon)
Lunacy- insanity interrupted by lucid intervals 
Lunate-shaped like a cresent
Lunation-the period of time averaging 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes,
and 2.8 seconds elapsing between two successive new moons


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