P3D A newbie learns about loading a Realist

["Les Hall" <leshall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your response George...

>I start with the R/A button in "R"
>where the center film sprocket wheel rotates freely.  I then pass the film
>leader under the guard so that it engages to this sprocket wheel, and to
>the pick up spool.  Close the back, switch to "A", advance until click.
>Advance two more times.  Ready to go.  No need to worry about the "white
>spot" per some instructions.

Yeah, the Reel-3D addendum involved turning the sprocket toothed thingy
back five teeth, then feeding the film through etc etc. Your method seems
to me (who knows nothing) to be much easier and surely just as effective.
If you are advancing two shots I would imagine that you are well 'into'
your roll of film and not going to loose any frames...

snippety snip

>Welcome to the club and thanks for posting this.  It is always interesting
>to read people's first reaction with hands-on stereo photography.

This is a good list. I am active on the air-cooled Volkswagen list and they
are a bunch of characters, very friendlly. This list seems a little bit
more scholarly and composed, which is fine with me - I'm here to learn and
share my experience. Of course everything I write at any time is
Copyrighted on Earth and most other planets in our Solar system. ;)

My experience was much different and more pleasing that I expected. Does
this now mean I have to spend all my disposable income on projectors and
the like?

Les, Dallas, clear, mild, sunny.


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