P3D Re: Stereo World Statistics...

["Richard A. Wood" <akrare@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dr. T said:
>Hmmm... what do we have here?  Another dissatisfied collector? :-)

Not at all.  I'm happy with the content, and have been an NSA member for 13
years.  This list is mostly shooters, and I thought someone who is
primarily a collector of 19th century views (me, but I'm also a shooter)
should comment on this thread.

>As Mike K. correctly pointed out, IMAX hardly qualifies as "shooter
>material".

It's contemporary stereo photography, is it not?  It sounds like shooters
want to lump all historical articles as of one interest, but split hairs on
the modern stuff.  Historical view collectors see the other side of the
coin in the same way; everything that is not historical is for shooters.  A
collector of civil war views may not give a hoot about an article on the
first San Francisco stereographers.  A collector of French tissues may not
care about an article on Gardiner's civil war stereos.  Get my point?
Stereo World has an impossible job, to satisfy divergent interests, and to
be fair and balanced.  I think it does a great job.

>You seem to be working under the assumption that anything
>that is not of historical interest, is classified as material for
>shooters.  Stereo World carries reviews of contemporary products
>for the stereo consumer but very little tips, etc., for the active
>stereo photographer.

You're not suggesting that you would want to see half of Stereo World just
about "how to shoot" and "this is what I took", are you?  As has been
stated before, the books cover, in depth, the "how to" of stereo
photography.  Something that is not covered by the many books on stereo
photography would, of course, be a great addition to Stereo World.  Dick
Wood



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