P3D Re: Realist system flawed?

[john bercovitz <bercov@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric G. asks:

> Not to get too metaphysical on you here, Boris or John or any other
> orthosexuals out there, but with the easy and rapid accomodation most
> people can make to non-ortho situations and with photography having all
> kinds of artistic possibilities resulting from these accomodations,
> what's the point of the stricture?

Two reasons:
1) I still see the perspective distortion to a noticeable degree 
and am definitely more comfortable when viewing ortho.  (I.e.: I 
can _tolerate_ perspective distortion but I don't _like_ it.)

2) I show stereo slides to newcomers a lot and to old stereo 
hands almost never.  I don't want to mess with these new people
who aren't used to perspective distortion in stereo (yet).

I thought your example of how we've all gotten used to mono distortion
through the newspapers (and film and TV) was great.  How true!  I can
remember being bothered enormously by wide angle shots in the newspaper 
when they first started becoming a regular feature.  Now I think it's
funny but fun, as an art photo can be.

Dr. T writes:

> It is all a matter of getting used to, and having certain
> expectations from, say, color photography.  We have the same
> problems and discussions today when we compare the Kodachrome
> with some of the more saturated E6 films.  Kodachrome users call
> the colors from these E6 films "unreal" because they have
> certain expectations, shaped by Kodachrome, of what color should
> look like in photographs.

Hear!  Hear!  Right on, right on, right on.  Highly saturated films 
are totally bizarre to me but I bet I'll get used to that, too, some day.

John B


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