Re: I am an amateur, to cry out loud!!!!

[P3D Mark Josephson <icebox@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, P3D Dr. George A. Themelis wrote:

> I have this hobby.  It is called stereo photography.  That's is my hobby.  I
> put a fair amount of money into it but expect nothing in return.  I am just
> enjoying what I am doing.  The excitement of taking stereo pictures.  The
> thrill of getting some great stereo pictures once in a while.  
> 
> I enjoy what I am doing and that's why I am doing it.  It is fun.  It is
> 
> How about archival storage?  Yes, that's very important... if you work as a
> preservation specialists at a museum and you get paid to worry for that
> stuff.
How about archival storage.  Will you want to see those "great stereo
pictures" that you take every once in awhile in 20 or 30 years?  I know
that I take so few great ones that I want them to last as long as
possible.  You're not that old, Dr. T, I suspect that you'll want them to
last too.  And who knows, maybe your descendants will be as excited about
1990's stereo as you are about 1950's stereo.  If you use E-6 film, or
don't bother to store your film as well as you reasonably can, you cheat
them of that too.  And even if you want your kids to sell your photos to
the 21st Century Dr. T, if they're magenta, he won't pay them much.  So
any way you look at it, you ought to care.  Thank god many
stereophotographers in the 50s used Kodachrome and kept their photos 
in nice air conditioned dark closets.  If they didn't what would you be
buying?

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