P3D New Member sends greetings

["Sokolowski, Ray" <paa5402@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I first read about being able to make your own stereo pictures years
ago, and even went so far as to send for blank Viewmaster mounts, but
never got around to trying to take the pictures. At that time, they said
you could take pictures with disc cameras and put them in the Viewmaster
(what do you call them?!) circle things and you could see 3D. Now I read
that the only way you can make your own viewmaster pics is by cutting
them with a machine that hasn't been made for forty years. Is this true?
	Anyhow, thanks to the internet, I found out you can make your own by
just moving a camera 2 1/2 inches and mounting them in a little holder.
I bought a book from Reel 3D about the Civil War, and used the viewer
that came with it to see my home-made pictures. What a shock it was when
my first attempt jumped out at me! I am hooked. Just bought an Argus 3-D
and am waiting to see the results from this. May get into the more
expensive prints and cameras eventually, but it sounds like an expenive
and complicated hobby. Are the slide cameras and viewes worth the extra
expense? 
	I still don't understand why 3D picture taking supposedly went out of
style when the movies came in. People still take regular pictures, don't
they. Why didn't stills go out of fashion. I showed some of my shots to
the people at work on the Argus viewer, and they went wild. Who would
ever want to look at a flat picture ever again. I don't get it.
	Looking forward to years of enjoyment, and good advice from the
subscribers to this group.
	And my apologies to the SSA that had such a poor turnout in
Philadelphia in 87. Maybe next time we can do better.


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