Re: The Art & Tecnique of Stereo Photography

[P3D <MarkKernes@xxxxxxx>]

Previous posters wrote:
<<>> "The Art and Technique of Stereo Photography" (Crown Publishers, Inc.,
>> New York City, 1954). Pasted inside the back cover of the hard-cover
>> book was an envelope containing black-and-white positive film strips for
>> 5 Realist-format stereo pairs.  The readers were expected to cut and
>> mount the stereo pairs themselves and to use their own realist format
>> stereo slide viewers.  This worked very well for me, but I imagine that
>> it caused some consternation among buyers who didn't have the viewers
>> and mounts!

So that's what was supposed to be there!  My copy of the book had those
film strips missing!  :-(

Perhaps a disadvantage of that method is that the images
become separate from the book -- never to return!>>

And yet... what an interesting concept for some modern-day publications.
After all, it doesn't take nearly as much effort to simply enclose film with
the book and let the readers do a bit of work. Unfortunately,  readers are
less likely to have the necessary equipment nowadays than they were back
then. Sad. Still, sounds like a good (if unworkable) idea to me!


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