P3D Re: New Member sends greetings (hobbies)

["Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Greg Erker <erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


I wrote:


>>One observation, though.  Even though the viewers of your pictures
"went
>>wild", did *any* of them indicate that they would start taking 3D
>>pictures

>Isn't this true of many hobbies? A friend does
>wood carving and all his friend ooh and aah over
>his carvings but none of us have taken up
>wood carving.


C'mon, Greg, are you seriously comparing wood carving to 3D
picture-taking?  *ANYONE* can pick up a Loreo,  Nimslo, etc., and
point'n'shoot a genuine 3D picture.  Dr. T. would even argue that the
same is true for a Realist. :-)  A beginner's results may not be
particularly noteworth, particularly if they don't already have a solid
photographic background, but they WILL get a 3D picture, all their very
own. Woodcarving (at least with any degree of artistry beyond the
proto-human in the result) is just a BIT more complicated, requires a
set of specialized chisels, etc.  Not to mention imagination, artistic
vision...  You get the picture. :-)

>  I used to do holograms at home. Same result.


Also way more complicated.  Requires at least a 5mW laser (not YET a
common household item, ignoring the laser diodes in CD players which
don't have nearly enough output power), a heavy sandbox or a
vibration-isolated optical bench, beamsplitters (yes, Virginia, the real
ones), first-surface mirrors, a darkroom, chemicals, lots of time, care
and effort...  Again, no comparison to simple snapshot 3D,
send-your-film-out-for-processing-get-the-finished-results-back
photography.

I write songs, music and lyrics.  I play all the instrumental parts, I
sing, and I arrange and record my own demos in my home studio.  I guess
because I can do it, I should expect everybody to be able to, huh?  At
least by your logic...  Yet I do think *anybody* can easily get into 3D
photography, and be happy with the results.

>  Stereo photography. Much the same. ThoughI do have two converts to my
name.


Sorry, don't agree.  3D photography: It ain't rocket science. (TM) :-)

     -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)



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