P3D Re: New Member sends greetings (hobbies)

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:58 PM 5/13/98 , Michael Kersenbrock wrote:
>> The original point of the posting that started this (now absurd and
>> growing moreso) thread was I don't understand why some people (like,
>> presumably, us) got turned on to 3D and are active participants, while
>> most others to whom we show our presumably stunning 3D work, can't be
>> bothered.  
>
>For some people, of course, it could be money and "just how much is
>it worth to them in both time and money".
>
>Example:
>
>I got back from my family reunion in Las Vegas about a week or two
>ago.  I took a pile of 3D photos with my FED and my wife took 2D
>photos with a Pentax SF1 camera.  I then went and had some processing
>done.  I won't even speak about how her camera was autofocus and
>had a TTL zoom lens.
>
>Each roll of my wife's photos yielded TWO 4"x6" prints of 36-images.
>
>Each roll of my 3D photos yielded about 20 unmounted uncut images.
>
>Which costed more?  Her film was much cheaper to begin with AND the 
>processing described above was also slightly cheaper for her 
>processing +  72 prints than for my single-roll E6 processing-only.
>
>And I still need to add the time and cost of up to 20 RBT 
>slide mounts.   I've still not mounted any of mine, while
>we already looked at all of her images "instantly".
>
>Not that my 3D won't be "better" (eventually), but in terms of
>both runtime time and monetary costs, one won by a mile/kilometer.

If I were trying to get someone hooked on stereo photography, I'd show them
the View-Magic viewer.  The viewer is cheap, and requires no other
equipment.  It's very easy to view with, and comes with a great book on
beginning stereo photography with a single camera.  Use any camera, any
print film, any processing service, and then just look at the results.
It's cheap, simple, and it works very well.

-pd

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