P3D Re: My first stereo show - strange reactions

[michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Kersenbrock)]

> One more interesting point.  Everyone in the audience of about thirty
> people was a photographic enthusiast, but not one of them expressed an

I think a point to be made is that many if not all of those folk
probably are "2D enthusiasts", not "photographic enthusiasts". They
have already defined the "arena" of their interest and choose to stay
within their bounds.  I don't mean this to sound bad.  People's hobbies
usually have to become specialized in some form, even within what may
sound like a field already well bound.  People who collect photographica
will limit themselves to just cameras, and further limit to just a
certain time period, and even then for only certain styles within that
time period.  In other words specialization has already "set in".  I 
suspect that non-club goers would be more flexible because they haven't
already decided upon their "specialty" so strongly as yet.

> interest in trying stereo for themselves, even though I made the offer of
> providing further information and assistance.  In fact, I talked
> individually to several members who were looking at my Realist etc., and
> the almost universal comment was that stereo was not worth the trouble.  
> (Bear in mind that these guys will spend days in their darkrooms producing
> material for club competitions!)
> 
> One guy said that he'd tried stereo once, and found it to be far too
> limiting.  I couldn't persuade him to expand on this, other than to say
> that stereo stopped him from doing a lot of the things he wanted to do. 
> (Photographically speaking, of course!)

I think an RBT camera might have helped in this case.  Or maybe not.

> 
> Clearly, I'm not going to make many converts at my club, so I guess I can
> wave good-bye to my dream of a stereo category in our competitions!  What
> am I doing wrong, guys?

Try hitting 'em over the head with the Realist?  

Mike K.


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