P3D Idea for birthday party

["Dr. George A. Themelis" <DrT-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My daughter had a birthday party on Saturday...  She turned 9 on
Monday and had invited a few friends to celebrate. My contribution
was a stereo slide show.  I got into 3d a few months before she
was born, so I have documented her life in great detail.

To prepare I scanned my collection of slides (that takes hours)
and pulled 100 of the best slides.  Starting from wife 9 months
pregnant and myself looking much younger :-) and going to
this summer with our trip to Greece.

It was fun and the kids liked it.  To break the monotony ("here is
Lea 6 years old", "here is Lea 6 1/2 years old"... etc.), I played
a little game "Find Lea" where I would show pictures with a lot
of people and asked the kids to find Lea among the crowd.  I
even included a few slides where Lea was not in the picture, just
to confuse them...  Lea was holding a laser pointer and was
point to different things/people in the pictures.

I think I am going to do this again for my son (who is turning 6
this Christmas) and also when friends are visiting, etc.  Till
now I hesitated to have stereo slide projections because most
of my slides are mounted in bare Albion mounts and putting them
in cardboard or glass is a bit of a pain.  But with the use of 
RBT mounts, remouning from Albion to RBT is becoming fun.
I have the chance to readjust the window and make the pictures
look even better.  For this showing I remounted about 40 slides.
I left the EMDE with aluminum frames (my older system) as-is.
One extra advantage of RBT mounts:  The boxes they come in make 
a perfect storage space for about 80? slides.  Plus, I can write 
titles with a marker, which is quick and easy.

George Themelis


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