My Kodak Down Under (G'ddday, mate)

[P3D <BD3D@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I hope I did the right thing this morning.  I sent my only working
Kodak Stereo on a three-week trip to Australia with a NOVICE! Am I
insane?

Maybe.

The camera went off with Kelly Silloway and her boyfriend.  Some of
you may have met Kelly at the registration desk at NSA 96.  She was
the one with freckles and the infectious grin.  I kind of owed her
a favor, since she had arranged all the registration table work
schedules (about eight different girls over the course of the
weekend) to ensure coverage all four days.

She asked if she could borrow a 3-D camera for her trip so of
course I said yes. I gave her a quick run-through on how close/not
close to get, where to have the light, etc. then set it at f/16
1/50, and told her to only shoot on sunny days. :-)  Lots of them
in Australia lately I hear.  I put it in the (newly restitched-
looks great!) field case and handed it over.  She didn't mind only
the one roll of film(Slowdachrome, sorry that's all I usually have
around), as she planned to only use the Stereo for special shots,
and didn't need the hassle of removing the case, rewinding,
reloading, etc.  Fine by me.  The camera stays closed.

I'm not sure of her itinerary, although she mentioned the Great
Barrier Reef.  I *think* I told her it wasn't an underwater camera.

Today it flew off, leaving me with only the one Kodak with the
jammed shutter.  That was the motivation I needed, so this evening
I took it all apart, cleaned the blades (and everything else) and
put it back together.  snick-snick.. Tomorrow I'll worry about the
focus.(I had started to videotape the disassembly process, but that
became a hindrance to the process in a big hurry. Some other time.)

So I hope I've done a good thing by this long-distance loan of the
camera.  Who knows, it may spark a lifetime of interest in 3-D.
That's well worth the risk of a loss of a cheap camera, I think.

I'll keep you posted on how things turn out.

Best regards,
Bill Davis


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