P3D RE: Stereo World Articles

[Chuck Field-ECF004 <Chuck_Field-ECF004@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dr T. gave some good advice for an editor:
" Look around and see who specializes in what
and ask them to write about it.  For example, you don't have to
look further, with Andrea next to you.  Make them commit to it.
Then put the deadline and pressure until you get them.  If you
just sit back and relax, I don't think you will get much.  Someone
called it "babysitting"... I call it "reality"."
  
   And I think that that's fair, for a paid editor.  For a volunteer editor
of a magazine that can pay little or nothing for well written articles, you
may be asking for something that simply ISN'T realistic.  It would be nice
if
we could find a capable editor with LOT'S of extra time on his or her hands.

In the meantime, we should be more understanding of what our present
volunteer editor is going through. 
   It's not as if we hired Perry White, and are paying him big bucks to
bully
his people into writing specific kinds of articles, for the morning edition.
   As a collector, I became a member so that I could learn more about my
passion.  I'll never spend nearly as much time on the photography end of the
hobby. (Maybe when I retire.)  So when your modern (and sometimes more
technical) articles DO get published, I'll probably just skim them.
  Now, if I'm going to make the time to do more stereophotography, it's
probably going to be by the weight shift method.  So... here's an idea:   
Someone write an article explaining how to photograph using the weight shift
method, and how to properly mount the images using the proper materials
(like
Q-VU mounts, perhaps).  I'd appreciate it if this writer does the required
research.  Without the benefit of other peoples' expertise, I've made
mistakes, in the past.  I've tried mounting my Loreo images with Q-Vus and
rubber cement.  I doubt the rubber cement is of archival quality, and some
of
my older mounts have started to come undone.  This writer could, perhaps,
introduce me to the proper kind of glue.  And help me learn how to take more
control over the look of the finished image pair.
  I know that there are quite a few members of this list, who are qualified
to write such an article.  And, unless my memory is playing tricks on me, I
don't remember seeing an article, like this, in a recent Stereo World.
  Hmmmmm... Is this an official challenge?
What'd'ya say?
        Chuck Fielddd


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