RE: Copying old stereo to new...

[P3D Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Then he lists some great reasons for doing this. =) As I read this I 
> found it interesting that except for the `can be viewed in a better 
> viewer' reason, these reasons matched the reasons I might have given 
> for reproducing the antique views digitally. The only other difference 

Isn't that a rather important exception?

> would have been that since the views are reduced from cards to binary 
> information, they only take up space on your hard drive, even smaller 
> than the slides... Long live digital Stereo! ;) ;) ;)

Speaking of which... I digitized a card last weekend (curved one, 
flattened for a little while) and then printed it out.  It was 
a HUGE logging log-raft on the Columbia river (Oregon).

Even though I printed it on a (now) ancient Epson Color
stylus printer (in B&W), my wife (an impartial judge if there 
ever was one) declared it to look better than the original!

And this was with no manipulations other than auto-contrast when
scanned (original's left image actually is a bit darker than the 
right and balancing, at very least, could have helped even more).

Mike K.


P.S. - Does this mean that we should combine the two stated "views"
       and make realist slides from stereoview cards by first
       digitizing, then writing them out to a high-resolution
       digital slide generator?

> 
> Dan Shelley
> http://www.dddesign.com/3dbydan
> 
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