P3D Re: Stereo Photo Books.

[fj834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dr. George A. Themelis)]

>>     A professionally made VM 3-reel set is 
>>     attractive, probably particularly so to a P3D audience, but I 
>>     find that the VM images I have are very limited compared with the 
>>     7-perf stereo pairs.  
>
>I am not exactly sure I understand the last statement.  VM images are
>limited, while 2" side-by-side pairs or anaglyphs are not?

Now I think I understand... You are saying that YOUR VM reels that you
made of this project are limited compared to YOUR 7p images.  But any
way you try to include these 7p images in a book will be limited...
unless of course if you make copies and inlude these as 7p slides
(we are talking slides, right?) in the book.  (The reproduction will
also take something out of the original images...)  7p images can be
tranferred well in VM reels because they have similar aspect ratio,
while as prints they will have to be reproduced even smaller to be
placed side-by-side. 

Any way you see it, seems impossible to recreate the full impact
of your original pictures in a book. (I am sure Bill Walton will step
in at some point and disagree, based on his experience with B&W prints
reproducted in his book but I think you are talking about color, which
is a little bit different)

-- George Themelis


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