P3D Re: Photo ops in New York

[Brian Reynolds <reynolds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Deering wrote:
> >Jaap Zonneveld asked
> 
> >I will be in New York City next week. What is there apart
> >from the Sony 3D Theatre to see or do in the field of 3D?
> >Please let me know.
> 
> Wow!  There are a ton of stereo oportunities in New York.  I love the
> touristy things like the statue of Liberty, Empire State building, the
> World Trade center, and I've lived here for four years.  If you are here on
> a sunny weekend, there will be a free show in Washington Square.  I have
> bunches of nice photos of the gymnasts and performers there.  You could
> spend a week in Central Park, it's 400 hectares (990 acres) of forests,
> fields, statues, ponds.  The Turtle Pond by the old castle has been freshly
> renovated, and begs to be shot.  And people watching in New York is a high
> art.  Wall Street, art galleries, the East Village, Greenwich village,
> Times Square, whew.
> 

Don't forget that there's more to NYC than Manhattan.  The Museum of
Science and the World's Fairgrounds (now part of Flushing Meadows
Park) have plenty of 3D opportunites.

> Apart from the Sony Imax theatre on Broadway, there is a similar theatre at
> the Museum of Natural History, (not nearly as big) and a dome theatre at
> the Liberty Science Center.
> 

So far as I know the Sony Imax is the only one that shows Imax-3D
movies (although not at all showings).  The American Museum of Natural
History Imax theater definitely doesn't show Imax-3D movies.

The Warner Brothers store at 5th Avenue and 57th Street shows Duck
Dodgers in the Third Dimension (aka Daffy Duck) in 3D with Marvin the
Martian.  Bring your own polaroid glasses.  WB gives out glasses, but
the frames are made to look like Marvin (or perhaps Daffy) frowning.
I found that the fake eye brows were in my field of view and were
irritating (eventually causing a headache).  WB gives you a Marvin
coin when you see the short that can be redemed (in that store only)
when making another purchase for the price of the ticket to see the
short.

> I'd suggest you bring at least 20 rolls of film, and I'm not kidding!
> 

NYC is actually one of the few places where you can actually get film
cheaper than at home. (Unless you're from NYC!  :) I would recommend
stopping by B&H (9th Avenue between 33rd and 34th Streets) or Adorama
(West 18th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues) rather than dragging a
lot of film around.  The only other good store is Calumet (West 19th
Street between 5th and 6th Avenues) if you're looking for medium or
large format stuff.

Of course you can also wind up spending more than at home.  I once had
a tourist kiosk at the Javits Center (the NYC convention center) try
to charge me $13 for a single roll of slide film (without processing).
DO NOT go to any of the camera stores in NYC!  The other stores are
almost without exception primarily in business to rip off tourists and
others who don't know much about cameras.  This is especially true of
the stores around Herald Square (where 6th Avenue, Broadway and 34th
Street intersect) and along 5th Avenue.  See the rec.photo mail order
survey for more information on NYC camera stores.

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Brian Reynolds                  | "Humans explore the Universe with five
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