Film poll so far...

[P3D Dr. George A. Themelis <fj834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rolls of film shot by stereo photographers of this list in 1996:

Photographer    Rolls           Photographer    Rolls
--------------  -----           --------------  -----
G. Themelis     88              Greg Erker      19
Eric Goldstein  55              Dave Worrell    19
Gary Nored      40              Dan Shelley     15
Keith Wilson    40              Grant Campos    12
D. Stuckley     36              Peter Davis     12
Mark Kernes     35              Gabriel Jacob   12
Eddie Hosey     35              C. Hotchkiss    7
Dave Kesner     31              Wolfgang Sell   2
Alex Klein      25              Tim Stabler     2

I enjoyed Charlie's posting regarding his race with the giant, one of the
few posts that I read twice!  I think his point was that the little guy
(e.g. Charlie with 7 rolls) can beat the Giant (e.g. DrT with 88 rolls)
using intelligence to counterbalance shear film-burning "power."  (It is 
either that, or the story had no point related to 3d at all :)).  

This conclusion can be true, except, as Eric Goldstein pointed out, to 
acquire this "intelligence" you usually need to burn a lot of film!  
Also, Charlie called this posting of facts (rolls consumed by stereo 
photographers) "bragging".  So far, the only person who bragged about his 
roll consumption is Wolfgang Sell ("see I did great, even though I ONLY 
shot two rolls!")

Personally, I am embarrassed for winning this race and I can assure you 
that I don't need all that film to take a few good pictures.  However, I do
need quite a bit of film to stay in first place in Detroit, month after
month of one assignment after the other... I am sure my main competitor
this year has to say the same, but he is not in photo-3d (he must be busy
taking stereo pictures right now...:))

-- George Themelis


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